Read guitar tabs?

Question

I starting eachin myself guitar yesterday and can play more than 4 chords, but I want to read tabs ( i have alot of music experience and can read sheet music but want to learn tabs so i can play Nobody's Home by Avril Lavigne and the Year 3000 by the Jonas Brothers)

Answer 1

the Numbers are the number of the fret you push down.

The order of the strings goes:

1
2
3
4
5
6

so if it's:

|--1----------------
|--------------------
|--------------------
|--------------------
|--------------------
|--------------------

then you push down the first string, first fret.

Hope I helped!

Answer 2

Tab is easy.. Basically strings are the lines. 1-6, and fret number and sometimes fingering is notated by the number on the string. Glad you can read music. Much better in the long run. A great guitar book is put out by Musicians Institute.. on sight reading for guitar. All guitarists who want to play professionally should read, not just chord charts. .The Berklee Books are good too.. I used those back in the 70's.

Answer 3

Go to fretplay.com and click on the link that says read tabs or you could just go: http://fretplay.com/how-to-read-tabs.shtml

Answer 4

wholenote.com is also a great site with play along features.