![]() and months go by, with the notereading method book carefully adding one note after another, starting usually with the open G or B string and branching out from there.įinally, two-thirds of the way through the book, the kids are reading down into the ledger notes below Middle C. The method books typically add staff notes slowly. I have found that my guitar students (who ALWAYS prefer to play by ear or with "tabs"/tablature, without fail!) will plug along through their notereading book without too much complaining, as long as they also have guitar tablature music to play. Won't my guitar students be stuck forever reading guitar tabs if I start them that way?Īlthough I write up songs for my students with guitar tablature notation, my GOAL is for them to become standard notation - treble staff - readers. For showing your students sharps and flats, print out the PDF file farther down the page. This set of notes does not show accidentals only the plain notes. Let's take a look at a few examples, shall we?įirst, the D Major chord.Please scroll down the page for the download links. The rest of the symbols will read the same as they would on an open position chord diagram. The arced/thick line shows which fret you should place your index finger on. Bar ChordsĪnd what are bar chords, you might be asking? If you see an arced or thick black line across all six strings, you're dealing with a bar chord. An " O" means you should play the string open (with no fingers touching it). An " X" means you should mute or avoid playing that string. Here is a handy chart of TAB notation rhythms with their beats, alternative standard music notation and rests. You'll see these on any strings that you're not fingering. ![]() Moving on, you may have noticed some " X’s" and " O’s" above the string positions on the chart. For most chords, though, "1" through "4" are all you need. Very rarely, you'll see a "T," which indicates you should fret the string with your thumb. These show you where to place your fingers on the fretboard (remember, the vertical lines represent the strings and the space between the horizontal lines depict frets). On the diagram itself, you'll see varying numbers of black or red dots. How to read guitar chords Black or Red Dots At the top of the chord chart, you'll see a symbol (Am, Dm, E, etc.) denoting the chord displayed in the diagram. Now let's add some meaning to all that stuff on top of the lines. It's on this canvas that we paint the picture of a chord, using a combination of dots, circles, and other symbols. If the top line is the same thickness as the others, you're looking at an area further up the guitar neck. The thick black line at the top represents the nut of the guitar. The horizontal lines show you a series of frets. Those vertical lines are the strings, with the sixth string being on the far left and the first string on the far right. ![]() where to place your fingers on the fretboard, rather than just displaying the notes to be played in a similar way to chord boxes or chord charts which display the fingering required rather than the pitches required to play. When looking at a chord chart, imagine you're staring at a guitar from head-on with the headstock pointing upward. For guitar players, It’s a far more intuitive alternative to standard notation as it displays the ‘ fingering ’ e.g.
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