How to Read a Guitar Tab
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Learning how to read a guitar tab is a useful skill for beginners who want to play their favourite songs without having to read traditional sheet music. Guitar tablature, commonly called guitar tab, is a simple system that shows you where to place your fingers on the guitar strings and which frets to press. With a little practice, you can use guitar tabs to learn chords, riffs, melodies, and complete songs.
A guitar tab has six horizontal lines representing the six strings of a standard guitar. Each line corresponds to a string, and the lines are arranged from the thinnest string at the top to the thickest string at the bottom.
The strings are represented as follows: