How to read tablatures for guitar

Previously, the songs were recorded on musical sheets with the help of notes. This allowed to synchronize the game of various tools, without focusing on the features of the game on them. But with the advent of the guitar, everything has changed a bit, because someone and the same notes can be played completely different on it. The music notebooks with the recorded songs did not pass this completely, so tabulatures appeared. To correctly read them, it is necessary to study all the frets and notation that are written on six lines.

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Newbie reading technology

Reading tablature for beginners recommend starting with the consideration of the Guitar Grif. It is he who is at the heart of the recording of tabulatures, because strings fixed on it in tabulatures are marked with six strips.

1. The most upper strip indicates the finest string or E. The second line indicates a string of SI or B. The third denotes a string of salt or G. Fourth - this is re or D. The fifth and sixth lines denote la or a and e.
   Zero on tabulature is denoted by a string that did not pressed his finger towards Lada. It is called open and is not obliged to be the very first when symboling sound. On the line zero can be located anywhere depending on the melody.
2. The figures written on the lines denote the strings pressed to the Lada, which should sound in one place or another. The twenty-fourth way is considered the last in the game on the electric guitar. If the figure 5 is indicated on the third line, then the third string is pressed into the Lada, which will be the fifth on the account.
3. The novice guitarist is also recommended to learn that most numbers placed on each other denote chords. If you need to extract chord E or Mi Major, recorded as "022100", then retrieve it starts from the bottom string and move upwards.
4. Not all chords look so wide. There are chords with fewer characters or those where only part of sounds must be removed for the correct sound. For example, sober Major on the fourth strings on the second is recorded as "012".
5. In addition to this method, the chords are recorded by Arpeggio. This is the keys to be keys specified in the tabulation near the numbers located.
   Experienced guitarists also recommend remembering that there are chords with non-rigid strings. They are denoted in tabulatory sign "X". For example, when playing a chord to Major "X32010" pressed the fifth, fourth and second string, while not touching sixth.
6. Slash is another way to transfer dual chords. For example, "E / C" or Major with bass is recorded as "x3x454". The record shows that all strings are involved in the sound, with the exception of the fourth and sixth. Another way to convey the lack of sound is the absence of any signs on the string line.

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Signs and Various Designations

• Hammer ON. When writing in tabulatory, it is denoted by the letter "H", standing between the Lada number, which is clamped, and the number with a finger-pinned string. Under the programming designation, this action is written by an arc over two digits, the first of which is visually less than the second.
• Pull off. This technique is denoted by the letter "P", which is placed in the middle of two digits. The first of the figures is already squeezed out, and the second is the one that must be closed after. Under the tabulature software, this action is also designated by the arc, but the first digit is visually more than the last.
• Tightening. When recording, this type of action is indicated by the English "B" after the number of clamping Lada. In the game on the guitar there are several types of suspenders and you can only distinguish them for rumor. Sometimes the suspension is adjacent to return to the original position, which is indicated by the letter "R".
  Machine spelling has a much greater information value, since the height of the arc is determined and the necessary completeness of the suspended, and the need to return to the beginning after it is completed.
• Slide. The slide is two types - downward and upward. The letter denotes oblique features, in the direction of which and understand what kind of slide is written in tabulature.
• Vibrato. When writing a vibrato from hand in tabulature, the symbol "X" is used near the numbered Lada, but in the engine record it is a wavy line. Which is impossible to confuse with anything.
• Let Ring. This designation is necessary to emphasize the importance of the sound of a particular chord when playing. This is especially true for bass batches of fingerstyle patterns. In tabulatory, it looks like the inscription "Let Ring" over the table of the lads and the dotted line, noting the place before the Lada, to which the sound should come.
• Palm Mute. Usually, holding or muffling the string is not denoted in tabulature when writing it from hand. In the engine recording above the Ladas there is a "PM" mark and a dotted line, denoting a number of lads that need to lose muffled.
• Note-ghost. With any writing, these notes conclude in brackets. They are needed for the completeness of played melodies, but they are not necessary to lose.
• Variable barcode and blows up -lond. They are denoted by the letter "V" or the same, but inverted symbol to record the up and down. Usually these badges are located above chords located.
• Natural flags The letter is indicated as follows "[]" and visually be shown in the form of reduced notes or numbers.

Reading tabulation is a whole art, without which the game of the guitar is impossible. With due diligence, inexperienced guitarists quickly get used to reading all the designations and easily cope with the task.