You Can Learn Guitar Without Reading Music

There are many people who wish they knew how to play an instrument, such as the guitar. However, they are put off from learning the instrument when they realize that most teachers will require them to learn how to read music first. Fortunately, it is possible to learn guitar without reading music. You can even master the instrument without learning to read a single note.

The guitar and other similar instruments, such as the bass, have their own form of written music, which is referred to as tablature. Tablature is very easy to learn and read because it does not involve strange or unfamiliar symbols, which is the case with learning to read music.

Tablature consists of numbers that are placed upon lines. Each line represents a string on the guitar, so the topmost string will relate to the bottom line and the bottom string will relate to the top line in tablature. The order is inverted in tablature because it is using the top line, which your eyes will naturally see first, to represent the string which your fingers will meet first.

The difficulty with reading music is that you have to be able to translate the symbols into a location on the fretboard of your guitar. This is not true with tab. Instead, each fret is given an easy to understand numerical value. For example, if you need to place your finger on the first fret, you will see the number one in the tab.

Playing chords is very easy to do with tab. When you see several numbers in a single space within the tab, you are playing a chord. Some tab books may even put the name of the chord above the tab to let you know the name of the chord you are playing.

Many people memorize their chords by using chord charts. These charts show you each string of the guitar and also show you where to put your fingers in order to make the chord.

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