Teaching yourself how to play guitar?!
Question: i want to teach my self and my friend told me about tabs..thats how he taught his self..but when i looked up a song i wanted to learn it look so confusing..can anyone help me and explain it to me..i wanted to play a paramore song
Answers: i want to teach my self and my friend told me about tabs..thats how he taught his self..but when i looked up a song i wanted to learn it look so confusing..can anyone help me and explain it to me..i wanted to play a paramore song
The best way to teach yourself guitar is to first go buy a basic chord chart or book (Like Mel Bay), and then practice. Start playing songs by strumming the major chords, first, this will help you learn rhythm. Then, once you've mastered strumming the chords of the song, then you can learn scales. Scales help you learn the actual note that each string emits when it is strummed while holding it down in a particular fret. Practice those scales and that will help you move nimbly up and down the neck of a guitar. All the while you can be looking up tabs (or chords) of your favorite song as practice. But unless you understand a little bit about the theory behind guitar, you'll never be able to do more than read tabulature.
The lines are what string to play, the number are what fret to hold.
it helps if you buy a book first to learn
If you buy yourself a basic guitar book...you need to know the strings and what some basic chords are
I think Tabs arn't teaching yourself personally. Your basically learning to play from Tabs, but just search for learn to read Tabs There will be tons of things that will teach you im sure. Or go to your local guitar store such as Guitar Center and get a book that teaches you to read music and tabs. Teaching yourself is picking the guitar up naturally and knowing every note that you play and playing them well and knowing how to read music by yourself to. Teaching yourself is hard and its what I do, but there is nothing wrong with learning from someone else or learning to read music, but first you need to learn the basic chords and the rest of the basics its a lot harder then you think. And buy a guitar chord book that will help alot too. I hope that I helped. And try doing a acoustic before electric or do both. Acoustics are cheaper they arn't really harder to play as some people say. I think they are just as easy a electric except you can't do a lot of things on them. Try putting heavy strings on your guitar that makes it hard to play.
each line is a string...one at the top six at the bottom...each number is the fret you play on that string, if 2 numbers are directly on top each other play them together, i doesn't tell you which finger to use (that's what confused me) you have to figure that out, ask your friend about it.