Reading Tablature and Symbols Tablature For those wn cannot read music, guitar rable 3 provided directly beneata all the stendare mute noretion in this book, Tablature utilizes six ines wnich represent the six strings of ine guitar, with the low £ (or sixth) string at the bottom, Gn tne right is ax example of how it looks har The numbers thet apoear on the lines of the ipiature incicate the number of the fret at whicn your le*t tang noles down che siring, This examale shows how an open & chord would be represented Symbols eC line with an s aver ar under it con yee notes indicates that your left hand to the second note with fe seme finger used Aswith tne tnrae follow ng techrigues pullefi, ard bend), tne slide is a way of piaying two notes while picking only the first note with the right nand, If the arch has en h with it, this illustrates a hammer-on right hand picks only the first second 's sounced by immering” with ¢ finges nigher up or © same string Here the second note, than the first, is “picked” which & wer down an the string with the | hand finger ¢ the first naveG/F eading Tablature anc Symbols An arched line witn a & means you bend the nove. Hare, you sound the second note by bending tne string towerd or away from you, bending with the leftsnand finger which moics down the first fe. In the example, the sumber ar nove in garen- 15 note shows the nove you wil bene up te, Voudo not actvaily move to the fourth ere, but, staying string te Sound a B. The first note is always quickly 2ved, going immediately to tne second, wrich is held tne tull timevalue( fh) J | tneses tied 10 12 second fret, bend the Ane signals a calease of a bend, This usually occurs night atter @ bene, + no urning to the original Sometimes a release will occur.alone, Here, you vend the string defore picking it with the richt Rane, so only the ‘eturn scunds, en the Dent note in parentheses has a siem going to the beam like the cthers, is has 9 time vaiue equa! to the others, The exampie neve is played as a normal triplet: Bending notes will be further explains¢ in the section Bending Strings, p. 34 ie ee ee Perr rrA straight line pointing up or Cown toward a note means you slide fo that note fram an optiona point below or above it. straight line pointing up ordown away trom anote means you slide from the note without going 10 another specific nove with the slide, A note played with vibr: ‘0 simply means 0 will have a wavy diy vibrate ling over it, viors ive ine note & ric s indicacec as follows. downstroke ¥ = unstroxe The Pick ar picks come in cou hicknesses. Most guitarists hav sonal preferences, but if you are just sta would be adviseble enc t 9 Ut, it either too recommend using a medium: ce it adapts itsalt more easily to sl! of the di Tne pick should be held between thumb and forefinger, and not grined too tightly, The rest of the fingers on your picking hand should be in 3 relaxed position, halfway between being opened ang closed, erent possibilities encountered on the guitar All the pieces in this book should be played with the guitar, pick [‘“flat-picking") unless other wise indicated [there will 22 many fingerpicking pieces later on). It is imparant that you develop he pick, and ommend using strokes (5 y= y } as much es practicing singie-note playing, In some of the earlier exercises involving single-note werk, | have ind @ picking siraxes below ine notes to give you 2 Detter ices of how the proper zechnique Reading Tablature and Symbols/7