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Most guitarists are self-taught. They don’t usually go through formal lessons learning scales and music theory… People like Jimmi Hendricks and Eric Clapton made all that stuff way too boring long ago. The average guitarist’s self-taught nature may therefore explain why guitar tabs can sometimes be a bit of a mystery — it’s a bit too much like reading music. But that’s not really the case. Let me show you how to read guitar tabs…

Guitar tabs are a form of written musical notation, but one that is strictly for guitar. Tabs have six horizontal lines, one for each string. Starting with the bottom line and working up to the top line, the lines represent the strings, E, A, D, G, B, and E like this:

E—2———- (first or top string)

B—3———-

G—2———-

D—0———-

A—0———-

E—0———-

You will notice that there are numbers on the top three lines. This is how you would represent a chord. The numbers refer to the fret that the corresponding string is pressed down on. In this case, the second fret of the first, or top, string is depressed. Then the third fret of the second string, followed by the second fret of the third string. The last three lines all have the number zero in them. This indicates that these strings are all played open. So, in this example we would play a simple form of the chord, D major.

Having the numbers all stacked vertically means that the strings depressed on the corresponding strings are all to be played at the same time.

One of the major flaws of guitar tabs as a way of notating music is it’s inability to properly convey rhythm and timing. This means that if you haven’t heard the particular song or piece of music you are trying to play, it may be a bit like driving with your eyes closed.

There’s much more to it than that, things like the letter “h” representing a hammer on, and “b” for string bends, and so on — it gets complicated. If you’re serious about learning how to read guitar tabs, you should find a good course to teach you.

John Coutts is an experienced author who writes on a variety of popular subjects. Did you find these tips useful? You can learn a lot more about how to read guitar tabs from this resource, http://www.reviewphase.com/guitartabs.html

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Check out what Culture Bully has to say about this new artist, Maria Isa, which I thought I’d share. Here music is cool, and I’ve included one of her tracks for you to listen to. Thanks to Culture Bully for the cool sounds by Isa.

Maria Isa, No Son Celos

Although only twenty years old, Maria Isa does not lack experience as she has been on stage and around music since the age of five. She grew up on St. Paul’s westside as a young Puerto Rican and by the time she had turned eleven she began writing poems and music.

You can find Maria on Myspace of course.

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Check out what Culture Bully has to say about this new artist, Maria Isa, which I thought I’d share. Here music is cool, and I’ve included one of her tracks for you to listen to. Thanks to Culture Bully for the cool sounds by Isa.

Although only twenty years old, Maria Isa does not lack experience as she has been on stage and around music since the age of five. She grew up on St. Paul’s westside as a young Puerto Rican and by the time she had turned eleven she began writing poems and music.

You can find Maria on Myspace of course.

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Just add some music to this and you’ll find that it’s quite addictive and relaxing. Check it out over at WaveSpace

I couldn’t figure out how-to embed it, so you just get the link. Find it here.

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Every now and again, we come across something that’s blogged which we find unique and different. That can be said of this comment we found over at MeyerWeb.com
. Now this post was made back in January, before all the hoopla about the iPhone, so I’m wondering what he has to say now. Don’t need the dock, tho.

What I want is an office phone that’s also a iPod dock. It would charge the iPod when docked, and also be able to play through the speakerphone, handset, or headset. And here’s the really useful part: it mutes the incoming signal when there’s hold music and plays the iPod. When it detects a human voice, it pauses the iPod and passes the incoming signal through. If the hold music comes back, it goes back to blocking the incoming music and plays its own.

My how quickly things change.

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