How to Read Guitar Tab

Guitar tablature only works if the player already knows the solo or the chords sound like, since TAB usually doesn't allow you to count beats like standard notion.

The TAB "staff"(a six line bar usually with the letters TAB on it) is made up of six lines. Each line represents a string on the guitar. Look at the example below. The top line of the TAB staff represents the top string (the high E or 1st string) of the guitar. The next line down on the TAB staff equals the second string (the B string) of the guitar, and so on for all six strings.

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