In this lesson it is really important that you follow along with the supplemental materials there is a lot of charts
that we are going to be referring to and there is a lot of notes that if you are reading along as we're talking about this stuff
it's going to help it sink in a little bit.
So tablature.
There are six lines that represent the six strings of the guitar.
The lowest line represents your low E string or your sixth string.
The highest line represents the first string.
So if you look from the bottom of the tablature to the top of the tablature that is the way the guitar neck is laid out.
Almost as if you were looking at the guitar neck flipped the other way.
When you look at tablature you will see that there are numbers that are written on these lines.
Those numbers represent which fret you are going to play on.
So if you see a two on the lowest line in tablature you are going to be playing second fret on your E string.
If you see a three on the third line from the top you are going to be playing third fret on your G string.
If you see a zero you are going to be playing the string open.
The reason tablature is so cool is because
with the help of musical notation you get a sense for how music is played in time.
So tablature communicates music played over time as opposed to
chord charts which are just telling you where to place your hands.
Whenever you are learning a song, whenever you are learning a drill from a lesson or a lick from a guitar magazine etcetera.
This is going to be communicated in tablature.
There are a lot of symbols and a lot of squiggly lines and things that happen to communicate other techniques on the guitar.
We are not going to be worried about going through the whole glossary of that right now.
It is more important the you understand the string order and the numbering system that gets you to play
the frets that they are communicating to you to play.
As we get into more advanced techniques in this lesson series I will be explaining the symbols that
goes along with those things so that you can effectively read the tablature.
If there is a new symbol in the tablature be sure to look in both the supplemental material as well as
look on the tablature itself.
There will likely be notes explaining if you see a little squiggly line what that squiggly line means over that note.