[william84]

I've read the how to on here but i still dont get how to read tabs. Any links or help would be great.

[tcliff]

This is about as simple of explanation as I could find. I think it covers notes and chords pretty well.

http://guitar.about.com/library/blhowtoreadtab.htm

There are 3 pages in total. Click on the links at the bottom of each section to get to the next page.

Hope it helps.

Tom C

[allthumbs]

Ask questions about what part is giving you trouble.

[Hilch]

Gee I'm glad some asked about tab otherwise I was going ..

When you have the numbers on top of each other in the same fret like

5
5
5

is that a strum ?

[allthumbs]

It just means they are played all at once so it could be a strum or all 3 strings plucked at once with the fingers.

[Hilch]

I am really going to have to learn more about TAB ....

How do you know if it is strummed of picked at the same time ?

[Clancy]

Originally Posted by hilch

I am really going to have to learn more about TAB ....

Hi hilch,

If you haven't been through it already, there is a two part lesson on TAB in the lesson forum. Part one is here - Tablature - what it is and how it works

Cheers

Clancy

[powe6563]

Originally Posted by hilch

Gee I'm glad some asked about tab otherwise I was going ..

When you have the numbers on top of each other in the same fret like

5
5
5

is that a strum ?

Like allthumbs said it could be a strum or or a 3 string pluck. The best way to tell which, is to listen to the song your trying to play. You should be able to tell wether the artist is strumming or plucking and finger picking, just by listening to it. The same goes for timing. A tab might look like this:

2------3------2
3---3-----3----
2--------------
0--------------
x--------------
x--------------

And unless you've heard the tune recently you wont know how fast of slow to play the tab. Generally the further apart the chords or notes are in a tab the more time there is between them, but it's not exact.