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All the material available on this side is gratis.

The guitar lesson and online tuition material is offered here for free. Hopefully it should help those looking to get started with their learning and understanding of guitar.

How to read Tabulature

'... I don't want you to play me a riff that's going to impress Joe Satriani; give me a riff that makes a kid want to go out and buy a guitar and learn to play ...' - Ozzy Osbourne

 

Strings/Lines

In the picture below you'll see a pretty standard tabulature or TAB

Reading Guitar TAB - Strings

You'll also likely see it written as below

Reading Guitar TAB - Strings - Text

In both examples the arrows point at lines, these lines are the 'strings' on the guitar.

'Bottom E' is the thickest string on the guitar - the 'Bottom' part refers to the low sound.

'Top E' is the thinnest string on the guitar - 'Top' part refers to the high sound.

Basically TAB is upside down, at first it's hard to get your head to remember this but with practice it does get easier.

Frets/Numbers

In the pictures below you'll see that there are now numbers on the lines or 'strings'

Reading Guitar TAB - Frets

Reading Guitar TAB - Frets - Text

These numbers tells us which 'fret' to play.

The picture below shows us the frets on the guitar.

Reading Guitar TAB - Frets - Text

A '0' on a TAB indicates an 'Open string' - Open means no fingers or frets.

To play a note using TAB first you have to figure out which 'string' then which 'fret'

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You'll also find a lot of free backing tracks to help practice your lead guitar skills.

Also on the online store you can buy extra backing tracks that are my mind well priced - these tracks are free to my students.

Beef up you knowledge...

Get to grips with theory using the online theory lessons.

Plenty of practice lessons and exercises getting your head and fingers used to moving comfortably up and down the neck.

Learn the positions of your scales and chords.

Get rhythm...

Practice your strumming with the lessons provided for free.

Listen to examples and copy.

Build up your chord memory using our chord progression exercises.

Online Guitar Tuition...

Chords, Scales and Execises for guitar, a free online guitar tuition resource

Get the best out of your playing.

Advice on buying electric and acoustic guitars for beginners

Check out Untidy Music's projects

From free online guitar tuition to free original guitar backing tracks.

Free loops and midi drums.

Musical projects Back Bone Shiver and The Number 13.

Untidy Music's free VST plugin Effects and Instruments created using Synth Edit.