Originally Posted by: k5mrI am brand new and having fun working my way through Core Level 1. I have a question about tabs and notes. As I learn to play the practice tunes and riffs should I be memorizing the actual notes being played or just learn the songs by the tabs? Is that important at this point? Wondering if I need to back up and learn what the actual note is when I see a specific tab on the music sheet. If I stop and think about which string and fret the tab indicates I can convert to a note, but I cannot do that quickly in my mind at this point. Thanks...

Knowing what notes you are actually playing will be very important at a certain point in the future, for now you should take small steps and focuss on "bigger thinks" on the macro level, for example learn where all the notes are on the E string, later on the A and D and after that all the others.

This will be a great basis for what you will need to do after that!

Let me know how it works and whether it helped!

Greetings,

David