Ok. So if you will refer to your supplemental content in the tablature section there is a little example piece of tab.
Let's play through that slowly together so we can get an ideal of what the tab is communicating.
So in the little section you've got your musical notation on top
those are the black dots and you've got the numbers on the bottom.
The very first set of numbers are stacked on top of each other there are two twelves so what that is saying is
that we're going to play twelfth fret on our high E string as well as twelfth fret on our B string.
We are going to play them at the same time since they are stacked on top of each other.
Now you will see there that over the next couple notes it's all the same thing.
So we are going to play the twelve, twelve, twelve thing and we're going to play that a total of four times.
After that first section you see that you will only then play the twelfth fret on your B string.
Then immediately following that you play your fifteenth fret on your B string.
Then you play your twelfth fret on your high E string.
As you can tell by how I'm playing through this tab is read from left to right just like a sentence is.
The numbers alone don't really give you a sense of timing so if you were just looking at the numbers
you would just be playing these things arbitrarily and that is where the musical notation comes in.
We are going to get into the very basics of rhythm during this lesson also later on.
It's very important when you are reading tablature since it isn't always covered with musical notation that you listen to
whatever source material you are trying to play as you're reading along with the tablature.
That way you can get the precise timing.
In lessons that we do here there are always going to be musical notation covering the tablature so you
can get a little ideal of the time and a little bit better of an ideal of the phrasing.
That's the basics on tablature.
Next we are going to cover how to read a chord chart.
Chord charts are a convenient quick way to communicate a position on the guitar
but you need chord charts, tablature and musical notation all together
to communicate a whole song idea or a whole phrase idea.
In the next session we will be doing chord charts.