Originally Posted by: CSchlegelSame reason anyone has problems doing anything with ease and confidence: lack of practice.

I suggest you start to learn by using real music notation (in the form of sheet music - paper or digital). It has all the necessary info. Whereas with "tabs" (especially free ones from the web) you don't always get all the info and the info that is there is usually wrong or at best inaccurate.

Another great tool is using Guitar Pro 5 which is becoming the standard for tabs now. What it does is not only shows you the tab, but also includes the music notation(So you can see the relationship), and plays the song while showing you the movement of the score so you can actually see how the tab sounds at a specific part in the song. you then have all sorts of tools to loop, change tempo etc.

There is a free trial for a short period, but it is worth buying the registered copy. You can then find tabs in Guitar Pro format all over the net. The only thing is Guitar Pro needs to have a somewhat powerful computer to work correctly(Since it is recreating the sound of the tab). I wasn't a believer at first but finally realized Guitar Pro is here to stay.