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[rans]

Practiced the guitar for the first time in mooonnntthhhss today. Felt pretty good but man do I have a lot of catching up to do before lessons start again.

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[t_1seditionist]

Can you actually read music?

[rans]

Sort of. I played the alto sax for 8 years. It's not really the same, but it's similar.

[valice_apple]

I read this, went a short time later to play my Dean and snapped the E string right off tuning it. Dammit.

[diediedie2007]

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-------------------4-7-4-
-------2-5-2---4-7-------
---2-5-------5-----------
-3-----------------------

the font will make this look terrible.

[rans]

teach me the secret of reading tabs

i go to tabs sites all the time but i can't make heads or tails of them

[diediedie2007]

those six lines are the six strings.

when you look at a tab, it's as if you're looking at your guitar, how you would normally look at it, from top perspective. the bottom string is the closest one to you, the top one is the farthest away. or...

e--3------
G--3------
B--0------
D--0------
A--2------
E--3------
(fig. A, the G chord)

the numbers designate which fret to hit.

e---7h9p7--

the 'h' means to hammer on the 9th fret, and the 'p' means to pull off back to the 7th. 'b' means to bend the note, and sometimes they'll tell you just to what note to bend it, like...

G---8b(10)--

does that make any sense?

[rans]

sort of. i'm confused on part of it but i'm not sure how to phrase what i'm thinking. but thanks. i'll ask more questions when they are coherent.

[juaninja]

I have a text file somewhere of tabs written by tender and sushi.