This video by the way is going to be about tablature. First I am go to the parts of the guitar and I will relate them to the guitar that is up here and I am going down here and relate them here. This is a show every weekday from 3 o 6 pm eastern standard time. You ask questions and I ask them in real time.
Here is the nut, right here is your headstock, right here is the fret board or what they call the neck and right here these little pieces are the frets. So the way that works is that there are six strings on the guitar.
So that is why in tabs you will see that there is six lines. Every line signifies for a string and so right here is your headstock, here is the nut which is right here like I said, so there is the headstock, here is the nut and here is the fret board. So in no way ever do I want you guys confused and to think for a second that this has anything to do with this, because these five lines is tab and there is six lines in tab, and these five lines have to do with pitch and these six lines have to do with the strings on the guitar.
So I get that for a lot of beginner musicians, a lot of my students whether they are five years old or 15 years old 50 years old. They always think that when you see stamp lines that has to do with tab and vice versa, no not at all. So here check this out, the strings on your guitar are E, A, D, G, B, E. Now the strings – the notes on your staff line as everyone knows are every girl boy does fine, E, G, B, D, F. In tabs you might see every time, you guys have probably see these things like 3 or 2, 1, 0, 0 and I get a lot of people by saying what is that mean? Well the numbers it mean which fret you are playing.
So what is a fret, well let us go back to this guys, let us take this guitar right here and look at this note right here. It says three and now see this is A. There are six strings, so when you say these three on this string, you playing 3rd fret on this string. So let us take that, 3rd fret on the A string. Here is my A string right here, and here is my third fret.
Let us take this guitar right here and look at this note right here. It says three. Now, see this is A, there is 6 strings. When you say this three on this string, it is in third fret on the string. So let us take that. Third fret on the A string, check it out guys. Here is my A string right here and here is my third fret. So whenever I play that note, and that is quite simple I just play it right here. – if that is two, if this right here is set at two instead of three I would do this, because now I am on my second fret. If I were to go one, so what I just did right here would be written down at this mark. If I want to play my first fret of my A string, - and I want to write it now as tab, I would go to my A, and I will write a one and that is it, that easy.
Now if I were to write a two on top of my one, it means I play it at the same time. Now if I were to raise this, and put my two to the right of the one, it means that I play it separately. Let me play this first, this is your chord, so when I put my first finger on the A and my second finger on the D.
Now let me play it separately, now you play together, then you play separately. So there I play together it will be written out like this and if I were to play it separately, it will be written out like this. So if I am going to play this whole thing it will just sound like this. One, two, one, zero, zero, so you probably saying to yourself two questions, what is the zero mean? The zero guys means that you play your open string. So if I were to do this like I just did, and I will play everything separately, the way I will write that on tab will be like this. And there you have it, this every string is open. So let us take this pattern and go like this.
What it does is that, instead of the notes on the guitar being -- if anyone has ever seen it, you might see sometimes a guitar player, you might have it like a big class, right here on the guitar so there finger is open. It is like a class that you just sit right there and then you just continue playing. That is w
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