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How To Read Guitar Tablature

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If you are someone aspiring to be a musician, it is beneficial to learn to read music. While reading music is standardized with many other instruments, guitarists have developed their own method to ease the reading of music in tablature. Unique to guitarists all over, tablature though not perfect, is a simple method of effortlessly reading and sharing music with others, especially with other guitarists.  Below you will find a quick primer on how tablature works.

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Guitar tablatures are available online. In the above diagram, six horizontal lines comprise the tab staff for the guitar. Each line symbolizes each string of the guitar. While the second line from the bottom denotes the A string, the bottom most line denotes the E. guitarists find this simplified tablature very easy to use and follow.



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Ear training is learning to differentiate between different sounds. This is a great skill to acquire as a budding musician. It will make reading piano sheet music easier as you will be able to tell by ear whether your playing is right or wrong. Even if you are not a great singer, this is a skill that can be developed. Music notes can do one of 3 things. They can stay the same, go up or go down. If the notes stay the same, their pitch will be the same.

Tip 1 – Play a note on the piano, around Middle C. Sing it back. Now play the note above it and sing it back. Now play both notes one after the other and sing them back. Vary this exercise with 2 notes and then 3 notes. Play them and then sing them back. Look at your first bar of piano sheet music. Look at the direction that the notes move in. Do they go up, down or stay the same?

Tip 2 – Before playing the notes on the piano try singing this pattern, even if it is very approximate. This gets you used to looking at the direction the notes move in and what sound they will produce. Now look at the rhythm of the piece. How many beats are there in a bar? If there are 4 beats in a bar, use this to count yourself in “1, 2, 3, 4″ in the following exercise.

Tip 3 – Clap through the rhythm of the 1st bar of music at a steady speed. This is training your musical ear to listen to the rhythm only. Clap at a steady speed and always count yourself in.



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One essential part of learning to play a musical instrument is often sidelined – learning to count and to understand time signatures. Let’s start with a basic foundation in reading music rhythms.

All commonly used time signatures consist of one figure over another at the start of a piece or section of a piece of music. The top figure represents simply “how many” of whatever value the bottom figure relates to, will be in each bar of music in that piece or section. To understand what the figure on the bottom refers to, we need to understand a western evaluation (mainly US based) of note-lengths. This system expresses the semibreve (an open note without a stem) as a “whole note”, and can therefore be thought of as being represented by the number 1. The note half the length of a semibreve is a minim but referred to in this system as a “half-note.” It is an open note but with a stem either up or down from it. If we think of one-half written as a fraction we have the number 2 at the bottom, and the figure 2 at the bottom of a time signature also refers to “half-notes.” Therefore in a time signature of 3 over 2, there are three half-notes in each bar. 2 over 2 would be two half-notes in each bar, etc.

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Ledger lines are used to notate music higher or lower than the lines of the staff. Learn more about how ledger lines are used with notes higher than the treble clef in this free music theory video lesson on reading music. Expert: Eric Williams Contact: www.ericwilliamsmusic.com Bio: Eric Williams plays harmonica in a local Arizona band. He also teaches guitar, voice and other instruments at Yavapai Community College, and gives private lessons at his studio. Filmmaker: Chuck Tyler

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The bass clef is usually used with lower-pitched instruments, while the treble clef is used with instruments that are higher-pitched. Learn the basics of the bass clef in this free music theory video lesson on reading music. Expert: Eric Williams Contact: www.ericwilliamsmusic.com Bio: Eric Williams plays harmonica in a local Arizona band. He also teaches guitar, voice and other instruments at Yavapai Community College, and gives private lessons at his studio. Filmmaker: Chuck Tyler

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www.SpeedyMusicReading.com. Learn How to Read Music Notes with this beginner level lesson on sight reading music. Intro level music theory and music lesson. http

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