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In this article I will try to give a few examples of guitar tabs for beginners. Before I do that, just a quick run through of just what these are.

Music comes in two forms. Firstly written or sheet music. Secondly is tablature which is shortened to tabs. The notation is different but tablature is easier to use. When looking at a music sheet you will see six horizontal lines. They represent the guitar strings. Secondly you will see a series of 0, 1, 2 at various places on the lines. These numbers refer to finger placement and fret positions on the guitar stock. As the song progresses the places to put your fingers changes. I won't go into detail here at the moment. You will need to look elsewhere for learning how to actually play and read music.

So to a few of my favorites of mine.

The Star. yes that's right Twinkle, twinkle little star how I wonder what you are..

From the Poem by Jane Taylor.
The first verse would look something like this below.

Twinkle, twinkle, little star,

How I wonder what you are!

Up above the world so high,

Like a diamond in the sky!

This would be represented like this on a musical tab.

Third string down or G, --------2-2--4-4-2--0-0-----------------

and the forth string or D,--0-0--------------------4-4--2-2--0h--

Now you would think all musical songs would be written or tabulated in the same way. I am afraid this not the case.

The arts world loves to create. Take the simple tune of Happy Birthday for example. Easy enough you would think. So did I until I started looking around.

It would appear the tab for this is not as straight forward as I thought.

I found several different interpretations of this very basic tune. Even the way the score was shown was different in some cases. May be the atmosphere at the parties had something to do with it.

I am sorry to say it's not something you can pick up over night and play the next day with ease.
Reading, understanding and playing music needs to be learnt or taught to the person wishing to play.

Another part of learning to play is practice, practice and yet more practice. I supposes it like anything you want to do really well at.

Well I hope this little article shed a little light on the subject.
Happy playing.

By Malcolm Ross. Additional pages on this topic, Guitar tabs for Beginners, can be found at

HubPage http://hubpages.com/hub/Guitar-tabs-for-beginners
and my Squidoo lens http://www.squidoo.com/Guitartabsforbeginners