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HOW TO READ GUITAR TAB
Guitar tab is just a combination of numbers and letters, along with some symbols, placed on six lines, nad was designed to make learning how to read music easier. In guitar tab, the 6 lines represent your six strings on your guitar. In bass, it would be four strings.
It is worth noteing that in guitar tabs, the whole thing may at first appear to be upside down, as in tabs the thick string always appears at the bottom and the thin string always appears at the top, so reading tabs does take a little getting use to. almost all music and songs today, as well as examples of music lessions are in tab form.
Below is an example of what guitar and bass tab looks like.
e____________________________high E thin string
b____________________________
g____________________________
d_______________7___9___0____
a______5___7____5___7___0____
e______3___5_________________low E thick string
Here in this example, the first two notes, you would fret the low e string at the 3rd fret and the A string at the 5th fret and play just those two strings. Then you would fret the 5th fret of the low E string and fret the A string at the 7th fret and play just those two strings.. Next fret the A string at the 5th fret and the D string at the 7th fret and play just those two strings. Now fret the A string at the 7th fret and the D string at the 9th fret and play just those two strings. Finally we end on two open notes or unfretted strings. Play the D and A strings together, open or unfretted. Any time you have a 0 in tab, that is an open string.
check out my complete lesson on how to read guitar tabs at the link to my free article HOW TO READ GUITAR TAB
POWER CHORDS FOR BEGINNERS
Probably the first thing you want to do on the guitar is play somethin that will impress your friends and family, something that is really easy to play, and sounds killer at the same time. Enter the power chord. Power chords are two and three note chords that sound like they are packed with power with each strum. And mainly they are played rapidly with down strokes, and punk bands have made millions of dollars using nothing else but power chords.
Here is an example of both two and three note power chords, using the root notes on the Low e string.
e_______________________________
b_______________________________
g_______________________________
d_________________5__5__7__7____
a_____5__5__7__7__5__5__7__7____
e_____3__3__5__5__3__3__5__5____
This is examples of the G and A two note power chords, followed by the three note G and A power chords. Many bands will use the three note versions for a fuller sound, but many punk bands today still use the two note versions, and the two note versions are the quickest and easiest ones to master.
Power chords are neither major nor minor, and the shape stays the same pretty much, so you can run these up and down the fret board, combine them in any combinations, and they sound good.
Check out the link for my complete free power chord lesson POWER CHORDS FOR BEGINNERS
MOVABLE SCALES AND HOW TO USE THEM
Now in order to do solo's, write your own riffs, or intro's, or simply be more creative on the guitar, you will have tto learn some scales and how to use them. All the scales I use will be movable scales, meaning you can move, or slide the scale up and down the neck from one key to the next. For each scale you learn, you will have actually learned twelve...I'll explain a bit later on. We will begin with the Blues scale, since we are learning the Blues.
MOVABLE BLUES SCALE - KEY OF A
E_____________________________________________(5)__8__________________
B______________________________________5__8___________________________
G_______________________________5__7__________________________________
D_____________________5__(7)__________________________________________
A____________5__6__7______________________________________________
E__(5)___8___________________________________________________________
Note that we are in the Key of A, so I have placed () around all the root notes. The root note that gives this scale it's name is the A note on the low E, or thick string. Now had I wanted to play a solo in the key of G using this same scale, I would have simply begun my pattern on the 3rd fret of the low E string, which would be a G note;
MOVABLE BLUES SCALE - KEY OF G
E_______________________________________________(3)__6________________
B_______________________________________3__6__________________________
G________________________________3__5_________________________________
D______________________3__(5)_________________________________________
A____________3__4__5__________________________________________________
E___(3)__6____________________________________________________________
Now if you compare this G scale to the A scale above, you will see that they are the exact same scale, the only difference is they start out on a different note. The space, or interval between each note is the same, regardless if it's the key of A, B, C, or whatever key you want to solo in. Now you see the beauty of the movable scale, once you learn one, you know twelve. So how do we get the twelve...well, let's take a look at that low E, thick string;
E (open), F, F#, G, G#, A, A#, B, C, C#, D, D#, E - notes all repeat
So there are our twelve notes on the low E, thick string, from the open E to the D#, then they all repeat beginning at the next E an octave up.
So any of these notes above that you start out on, that's the key your in. So now you know why they say, once you've learned one movable scale, you've learned twelve.
So are there other movable scales out there that work this same way? You bet, and I will list some below...remember, they may have different names, but they all work the same way.
MINOR PENTATONIC SCALE - KEY OF A
E____________________________________________(5)__8___________________
B____________________________________5__8_____________________________
G____________________________5__7_____________________________________
D___________________5__(7)____________________________________________
A____________5__7_____________________________________________________
E___(5)__8____________________________________________________________
If it looks a little like you've seen this before, it's because the minor pentatonic scale pattern is the same as the Blues pattern, but with one less note.
AEOLIAN SCALE - KEY OF A
(THIS SCALE IS ONE OF THE 7 MODES AND HAS A GRITTY, BLUESY FEEL TO IT.)
E_____________________________________________________(5)__7__8_______
B___________________________________________5__6__8___________________
G____________________________________5__7_____________________________
D_________________________5__(7)__9___________________________________
A_______________5__7__8_______________________________________________
E___(5)__7__8_________________________________________________________
MOVABLE MAJOR SCALE - KEY OF A
E__________________________________________________4__(5)__7__________
B__________________________________________5__7_______________________
G________________________________4__6__7______________________________
D_____________________4__6__(7)_______________________________________
A____________4__5__7__________________________________________________
E___(5)__7____________________________________________________________
THE MINOR SCALE - KEY OF A
E___________________________________________________(5)__7__8_________
B_________________________________________5__6__8_____________________
G__________________________________5__7_______________________________
D_______________________5__(7)__9_____________________________________
A______________5__7__8________________________________________________
E___(5)__7__8________________________________________________
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