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From: Pookster
Tab is real easy. There are six strings on the guitar, numbered 1 - 6. Tab represents these six srtings with six lines. The top line is the 1st or little E string, the second line is the 2nd or B string and so on. If you held the guitar in front of you looking at the string with your fret hand on the neck near the headstock, this is the way the strings would look- little E on top and big E on bottom- nubered 1-6 from top to bottom. The numbers represent the frets on the neck. A zero on a line means the string is played open. If the number three is on the second line, go to the 3rd fret on the B string and play that note- it is a D note. When numbers appear together, one above the other, on two or more strings, play all the notes at once. A slash between two numbers is a slide, / means slide up and \means slide down. So, if on the third line or G string it says: 9/11 start at the 9th fret, play the note and slide up to the 11th fret but don't play the 11th fret note. If it says 11\9, start at the 11th fret and slide down to the 9th. An arrow ^ means to bend the note up. ^ means bend the note up a half step in pitch. Try this: on the second or B string, play the note at the 13th fret, now move down to the 12th fret and bend the B string up untill it sounds like the note at the 13th fret, don't pick the note, just bend it up and let it back down. Lets put this together now:
e-------------------------------------
B------------10---12^---10------10----
G------9/11-----------------11--------
D-------------------------------------
A---0----------------------------------
E-------------------------------------
When you play the open note on the A string let it ring or sustain through out the rest of the notes. How did it sound? I'll be back with more if you like.
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