Fun Easy Guitar Tabs

From LoveToKnow Guitar

If you’re trying to become a better player, reduce the pressure by following some fun, easy guitar tabs.

Using tools such as guitar tabs and chord diagrams, shown here, help the beginner turn into a master.

Why Use Guitar Tablature?

Learning guitar tablature is an important aspect of your musical knowledge. Tabs simplify guitar practice by providing a diagram of the strings and frets. However, tablature is not the same as a specific chord diagram. By understanding where to place your fingers on the fretboard, you’ll expand your comprehension of notes and how chords are developed.

Once you build this experience, you’ll gain confidence building upon individual notes and scales, reading sheet music, and you'll eventually feel more comfortable improvising.

Many musicians rely on guitar tabs to learn the basic structure of songs they may play live, or simply play for the heck of it. After all, it’s not a party unless someone can whip out the Eagles’ Take It Easy or Green Day’s Good Riddance at the slightest suggestion! That’s why fun, easy guitar tabs are so great for your practice; you’ll build your experience as a player as well as your musical repertoire.

How Do Tabs Work?

Basically, the diagram of tabs includes notes, lines and numbers.

The lines are arranged in the same order as strings on a guitar, and the corresponding notes change based on how the guitar is tuned.
Each tab will tell you how to tune the guitar.
The numbers on the lines represent notes, and indicate where your hand positioning should be on the fretboard.

Why not just learn the notes from the start? Well, you are – sort of. Tablation is one step below reading guitar sheet music. For many beginners, learning hand placement is difficult enough – how to position the fingers, how much pressure to place on the strings, developing a hand spread that encompasses the entire chord – without the difficulty of memorizing notes, too. However, playing from tabs provides a foundation for learning all these things by encouraging familiarity with the notes and the instrument. It isn’t so much the music you’re learning as it is the mechanics of the music.

This LoveToKnow Guitar article on how to play guitar tabs explains the guitar tab process in detail.

Try These Resources for Fun Easy Guitar Tabs

There are a number of online resources to turn to for fun, easy guitar tabs.

Start each practice with some exercise tabs for bass and guitar from A-Z Chords.
You’ll find a large list of beginner’s tabs on Guitar Masta. There are some basic blues tabs, classic songs and a wide range of other songs, from Three Blind Mice to Sounds Like Metallica.
Guitar Players Toolbox breaks down many aspects of learning guitar into simple modules, include tabs, chords and charts. No matter which type of music you want to play, from the punk pop sensibilities of Blink 182 and Weezer to the all-out rock of the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Californication to something more laid back, such as Cat Stevens, the Toolbox offers a wide assortment of easy tabs.
At Ultimate Guitar, there are more than 4,000 tabs for almost every genre of music. Not all of them are easy; even if you find an artist or song you want, you’ll have to take a good look at the tab instructions to see if the song matches your level. However, visit the forums for suggestions of fun guitar tabs from fellow players.

Also consider investing in some books featuring easy, fun guitar tabs. At Active Musician, you can order tab books that feature 1970s classics from singer/songwriters such as Simon and Garfunkel, John Denver and Loggins and Messina. There are also tab books for acoustic rock favorites and a Green Day anthology.

Musicnotes sells a variety of easy tab books, too. One popular selection is the Acoustic Guitar Tab White Pages with over 150 songs from all genres.

Be sure to review other articles in this category for tabs of your favorite artists!.

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