questions on tabs
I just started playing a little while ago, And I've only put in about 20hours so far of practicing, and I know that my friends all learned how to play by skipping chords and goin straight to tabs. My question is, is this a good idea? and can anyone recomend a site with some instructions on how to learn tabs.
# 1
sooner or later you'll have to learn chords. If you learn all the open major and minor chords and then start to read tabs you'll see inmediatly that this:
e-2
b-3
g-2
d-0
a-x
e-x
is a D major and you'll play it without starting to analize where each finger goes.
e-2
b-3
g-2
d-0
a-x
e-x
is a D major and you'll play it without starting to analize where each finger goes.
# 2
Originally posted by system2040
. . . my friends all learned how to play by skipping chords and goin straight to tabs.
Well, that doesn't make any sense. You can write chords out in tab too, ya know.
If you're looking for tabs though, check out Tabcrawler.com.
# 3
Are your friends any good?
I really don't see the point in learnin tab first. Chords are what holds the guitar parts together, n it's where the solo's come from. I suggest doing a bit of both, coz chords are important. They get you used to using your fingers and helps you unlock the fret board and you'll see the theory in the tab better as well, as opposed to it just lookin like some numbers on lines. So you'll understand the whole thing better if you learn some chords. Just the major/minor ones to start with.
I really don't see the point in learnin tab first. Chords are what holds the guitar parts together, n it's where the solo's come from. I suggest doing a bit of both, coz chords are important. They get you used to using your fingers and helps you unlock the fret board and you'll see the theory in the tab better as well, as opposed to it just lookin like some numbers on lines. So you'll understand the whole thing better if you learn some chords. Just the major/minor ones to start with.
Remember, the chickens that fly will always beat the rubber plants that bounce!
# 4
I know this may sound a bit "leet" so to speak but I suggest you try to learn to read notations. It's not easy first but when you have read some books of basic theory or only just one you get the hold of it.
Tabs are great but you find much (and I mean A LOT) more music written in notations than in tabs, but if you are not going to be the greatest guitarist in the world you don't have to know how to read them.
I think chord forms are also important, you don't have to know all chords like F#add13-5 or something like that when you are beginning to learn how to play guitar, try just for start figure out the basic chord forms like the Minor, Major and the 7:ths for both of them..
Tabs are great but you find much (and I mean A LOT) more music written in notations than in tabs, but if you are not going to be the greatest guitarist in the world you don't have to know how to read them.
I think chord forms are also important, you don't have to know all chords like F#add13-5 or something like that when you are beginning to learn how to play guitar, try just for start figure out the basic chord forms like the Minor, Major and the 7:ths for both of them..
"If practise makes perfect, and no one is perfect, why practise? Duh.."
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