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How To Read Tabs

Lesson four of Guitar Command's Learn To Play Guitar In Two Months series of articles shows you how to read tabs.

Tab is an alternative to music notation. It shows how music should be played on fretted instruments.

Tab is easier to learn than standard musical notation, and is widely used among guitarists. So, if you've been following the series and you're confident playing chords, now is the time to start reading guitar tabs!

Part three of Guitar Command's 'Learn Guitar In Two Months' series covers strumming patterns for guitar.

In the previous lesson, Simple Guitar Chords, we found out how to play chords using a very basic strumming pattern. In this lesson we introduce three more chords, and bring them to life with some new strumming patterns.

At the end of the lesson, we've provided some sample chord progressions so you can practice what you have learned!

Simple Guitar Chords And How To Play Them

This lesson is part of the 'Play Guitar In Two Months' series of articles, although it is also written to be a stand-alone lesson too. The aim of the lesson is to show you how to play simple guitar chords. If you read through the directions and work hard you should be able to achieve this quite easily. More information on playing chords is available here: How To Play Guitar Chords.

Learn to play guitar with our free guitar course! Whether you want to play acoustic or electric, folk or metal, in this eight-part series of free guitar lessons for beginners you'll find hints, tips and advice to get you started.

You'll soon be playing your first chords, melodies and songs!

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Learn To Play Guitar In Two Months: Free Guitar Lessons For Beginners

This page is the introduction to our series of free guitar lessons for beginners. If you start now and work hard then in two month's time you'll be able to play the chords and melodies of many of your favorite songs.

From there, you can build on your technique and take your playing in any direction you want!

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Learn these basic jazz guitar chords and give your playing a jazz sound. Below are some of the basic jazz guitar chords that any aspiring jazz guitarist should know. Use them to play jazz chord sequences or invent your own.

This article is a brief introduction into how to play Spanish guitar. It introduces the playing techniques that are used and also highlights differences between playing the Spanish guitar and other kinds of guitar.

Beginner guitarists should aim to learn the guitar fretboard notes. A good knowledge of the fingerboard is useful for positioning bar chords and guitar scale shapes. If you plan to learn to read music a knowledge of the fretboard is essential.

Guitar Fretboard Notes Chart

Guitar string notes tuning diagrams & information; part of our Guitar Basics series.

Why Learn String Notes?

It's a good idea to learn the notes that your guitar strings are tuned to early on in your playing career.

Even if you're a solo guitarist who doesn't play with other musicians, you'll need to know the string notes for tuning with a guitar tuner. Even if you tune by ear, you'll still need to know the notes of the strings when you start learning chords and melodies.

If you plan to play with other musicians, you'll need to know the string notes for tuning to other instruments. Further down this page you'll find a diagram of the guitar string notes on a music stave, and also on a piano keyboard.