How To Read Guitar TAB Lesson on JustinGuitar

Beginner Grade 1 Module 4: Metronome, Stretches & THE Pattern
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Reading guitar TABs will open up a world of possibilities for your beginner guitar journey! :)


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Justin says he recommends studying rhythms but he won’t cover on this course. So where can I learn, just searching on the internet? Also, tab rhythms and notation rhythms are the same? What exactly should I look for?

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Justin offers different options when it comes to learning to strum and studying rhythmic notation, both for beginners and more advanced students.

If you’re an advancing beginner (Grade 3) or an intermediate student (Grade 4 to 6), I can recommend his Rhythm Reading book to learn everything about reading, writing and understanding rhythmic notation.

For beginners (Grades 1 to 3) he offers a more practical application with the Strumming SOS course. Here you’ll learn different strumming patterns and how to physically strum the guitar. I haven’t followed this course myself, but it should cover “Strumming Theory & Patterns” according to the description.

There are various forms of rhythmic notation. The most common ones are standard musical notation (‘the dots’) and slash notation (a kind of shorthand that uses some of the symbols of standard notation but in a more simplified way).

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Awesome, thanks :+1:

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Hi! i have a question

I thought that the E in 4th space in the treble cleff was a E5, Why is justing playing a E4?

Thanks

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Hi there,

I guess because the guitar is a transposing instrument.

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Hi Jose, it is because all music for guitar, including classical guitar written in standard notation is one octave lower than the same note on a piano and in the standard musical notation. So the middle C on a piano that would be 2 notes below the treble clef is the same as the C on the second string of the guitar which would be the note 4 from the top of the treble clef in standard guitar notation.
I checked this out on a piano to be sure.

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