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Reading

Tablature

In opposition to sheet music, tablature is much less universal and less formal. In the diagram be-
low you will see an example of a typical chart of tablature.

0 0
T 1 1 1
A 2 2 2
2
B 0 2 2 0 0

Let’s break this diagram down so that you will understand exactly what you are looking at.
TAB is made up of 6 horizontal lines.
Each line in TAB represent the 6 strings of the guitar.
The top line indicates the 1st or high E string and the bottom line indicates the 6th or low E string.

E
B
G
D
A
E

For each string, we put the number that represents the fret of the fretboard that should be
pressed. This is how we would play the example below

0 0
T 1 1 1
2
A 2 2 2 2 2
B 0 0 0