How To Read Advanced Tabs Part Deuce: Understanding Guitar Tabs The EASY Way!
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This lesson, "how to read advanced tabs part deuce", shows YOU how to read the various symbols that are common in guitar music. Learning how to read guitar notes is EASY, simple, and FUN, because you can PLAY what you SEE! No need to rack your brain trying to read standard notation.
So if you are having a difficult time deciphering a "tremolo" from a "trill", read on!
This section begins where part one left off. If you found this page through some other means, click back to How to Read Guitar Notes: 19 Techniques Every Lead Guitarist Should Be Familiar With.
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Tremolo Bar/Whammy Bar
The whammy bar can be used to dive, dip, and create David Gilmour style tremolo. Like the string bends we learned in part one of reading tablature, just "follow the lines". They will indicate how far to go using numbers to represent distance in half step and whole step intervals.
Legato Slide
A "legato slide" is written with a slash and a tie. The tie signifies that you only pick the note(s) prior to your slide. Do not re-pick the notes after the slide itself.
Shift Slide
A "shift slide" is LIKE a legato slide, EXCEPT you do re-pick the note you are sliding to upon reaching the fret.
Slide
Regular guitar "slides" come in four varieties: slide in from above, slide in from below, slide out downwards, and slide out upwards. Start your finger a few frets AWAY for the "slide ins", and slide OUT a few frets for the "slide outs".
It is common when reading guitar tabs to "follow the arrows". This lesson, how to read advanced guitar tabs part deuce, is full of arrows, lines, and wiggles. One of the things that makes understanding guitar tabs EASY is that you often simply "follow the directions" with your finger!
Vibrato
You may produce "vibrato" either by wiggling your finger or jostling your whammy bar. Similarly, this technique is indicated by a wiggly line above the tablature. Other techniques by which you may achieve vibrato include shimmying, flourishing, and pallywanking.
Trill
A "trill" is a Hendrix-style technique in which you execute really fast hammer ons and pull offs between two notes. The "trilled" note is marked in parenthesis. All you have to do is alternate between the two notes with your left hand.
DOs and DON'Ts:
DO: try playing guitar left handed and pretend you are Jimi Hendrix. It promotes ambidexterity and awesomeness.
DON'T: eat enough acid to put a small dog into a comatose state and perform the "National Anthem" in front of 30,000 people. Only Jimi Hendrix and Chuck Norris are capable of feats this demanding.
Tremolo Picking
"Tremolo picking" on guitar is written with three angled lines underneath each note. When you come across this symbol in guitar tablature, pick the note as FAST as you can using alternate picking!
Palm Muting
Ah yes, familiar "P.M." Not the one you see on the clock every morning! It's the one you see when learning "Battery" by Metallica! To execute a palm mute, press your right hand's palm against the bridge so it lays next to the strings and thereby dampens them.
Finger Tapping
Who the heck did you expect!? VAN HALEN!?
Finally, as we near the end of "how to read advanced tabs part deuce," the last rite of the forward thrusting lead guitar apprentices who are on the prestigious path of "learning how to read guitar notes": FINGER TAPPING!
Represented by a Capital 'T', this lead guitar trick is reserved for those inspired by shred guitar, not intimidated by it, and who waver not off the path of guitarslinging. Go now, and let Eddie be your guide.
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