Frets & Reading Guitar Tab

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Part of the video series: How to Read Tab for Guitar

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Summary: How to understand and play frets when reading guitar tab; get professional tips and instruction from an expert on playing guitar, reading music, and music theory in this free music lesson video.

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Michael Plunkett Michael Plunkett is pursuing a B.M. in Music Therapy from Arizona State University. Michael has been playing guitar for 10 years and has been teaching for two... read more

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Frets & Reading Guitar Tab

MICHAEL PLUNKETT: Hello. This is Michael Plunkett on behalf of Expert Village. We're continuing our series of learning to look at and read tablature for the guitar. As we've already seen, we have six different lines here on what we call our tab staff, staff meaning these lines all together. And we know that they represent the six different strings on our guitar. Now, when we go about writing in, we fill it in with numbers that represent the frets on our guitar. So, for instance, I might write on this 1st string here, any series of numbers that I want as long as it's not above however many frets my guitar has on it. And I could write it on any strings that I want really. I might just write it on these two for now. And so, when we read it, it's just like reading a book. We go through it with time. It's telling me to start playing open zero or no fret on my guitar, that would be for this high string. Remember, this is our high E string, this high string that just means to pluck it open like that, and then following directly after I'm playing the 1st fret, and then the 2nd fret, so 0, 1, 2. And then following that directly, I'm on the next string up, B or my 2nd string here, and the same thing 0, 1, 2. Zero, 1st fret, 2nd fret, so if I was reading this all together, 0, 1, 2, 0, 1, 2. Zero, 1, 2. I'll do them each separately. Zero, 1, 2, and then together 0, 1, 2, 0, 1, 2, that's reading the frets on the guitar tab staff.