How to understand guitar notes and tabs available in the net?

could anyone please explain to me about how to read and understand the guitar notes ?available in the net which is being given by many notable guitarists?How to understand guitar notes and tabs available in the net?
OK. This one is easy dude.

So, basic tab looks something like:

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----1---------------------

----------2----0---------

---------------------3----

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Now, each line is a string, with the first line being the first string (highest) and the last line being the sixth string (lowest). Each of the numbers are frets, the 1 being the first fret, (the closest to the head), 2 being the second fret, and so on and so on. Their are other symbols such as / or \ for slide up or slide down, respectively. H is for hammer-on and P is for pull off. * usually stands for harmonics, which is a whole different matter. There are many, many more symbols, but you can just look those up on the internet when you come across a new one. Now, a common problem with tablature as opposed to standard notation is that you can't tell how many counts to hold a note for. You'll have to listen to the song for the rhythm. I think this is a good answer. The question was oddly worded so I just did a lesson in Tablature. Also, you can get free tablature from either ultimate-guitar.com or 911tabs.com. Oh, as a closing note, tablature generally takes the place fo chords for finger pickin' songs. hope this helps!How to understand guitar notes and tabs available in the net?
Okay in tabs each line represents a string, each number represents a fret on said string, for example, well first off the first line is the first string, the first string is also the highest string, contrary to what you may think since the lowest string is the closest one to you when you play. For example this tab:



----0-----------

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-------0--------

-----------------

-----------0----

----------------



It means play the first string open, then the thirs string open, then the fifth string open, easy, now if two numbers are over one another it means play them both at the same time, figure out how. A thing like this 6/7 means play the 6 fret the slide your finger to the seventh. 6h7 means hammer on the seventh after playing the 6th, so in other words play the sixth fret then place you finger down onto the seventh one to play it, do not slide your finger when you see this. 7P6 means the same thing but instead of putting it on you pull a finger off. Play the 7th pull off to play the 6th.



Now another kind of music would be the Five line staff, which notes on it, the notes look like circles with tales, and some are just circles. This music has been used for a long time, still used today, much better than tabs, but also harder to understand.



Five lines

G

F---------------------------

E

D---------------------------

C

B---------------------------

A

G----------------------------

F

E----------------------------

D



Each represents a different note, In descending order it is (from the space above the top line. Now understand your guitar.... each string on the guitar plays a standard note when tuned (properly). These notes are, in descending order from the first string.



E

B

G

D

A

E



Now with this you can find any other note on any other string, though it's a little complicated. There is a formula. Each fret represents either a whole step or a half step, now a whole step means the length it takes for a note to change an entire LETTER pitch, this would mean to get from a B to a C



A half step means the legth to get half a pitch meaning For a D to a E it means it's not exactly a D but it's not high enough to be an E it's inbetween a D and an E, so we use a # to represent this, in other words a D#. This means it's slightly higher than a D but not high enough to become an E. Likewise you can also write it out as an Eb the b means flat, the # means sharp. Get it? Sharper means higher, Flat means... lower, lol. So now the notes go in order like this,



A-A#-B-C-C#-D-D#-E-F-F#-G-G#-A-A#-B-C- so on so forth.



Now you may have noticed there is no half step between a B-C and an E-F, well that's something I don't understand either but there is no half step between them, BUT YOU MUST UNDERSTAND a B-C is NOT A WHOLE STEP it is a HALF STEP. Just like an A-A# is a half step a

B-C is also a half step. In order for a not to be a whole step you must go past two notes (including sharps) now this does not means you go past a sharp and a flat since flats and sharps are the same. You can also write the above line like this with flats



A-Bb-B-C-Db-D-Eb-E-F-Gb-G-Ab-A-Bb-B



I personally think flats are harder to understand than sharps but that because I've always pretty much used sharp.



I hope this helps. Oh an remember each fret is a half step on the guitar, so I'll write out a few frets in the First string to show you the notes. The note in Parenthesis means it's an open string ( ) I also placed numbers above the notes to represent the frets so for example the 10TH FRET plays a D and the 11th fret plays a D#



1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

(E)-F-F#-G-G#-A-A#-B-C-C#-D-D#



Now I'm not entirely sure about this and you should look up more about notes and the guitar to understand it better in case I made a mistake but this is the basics of music reading in either TAB or Classical.



ALSO NOTE ---- Classical Music Notation can also show the rthym and beat of music which tabs cannot easily do. If you ever see letters written above tabs these refer to the beats or Whole note, Half note, Quarter note, Eighth note, etc....



Let me explain the rthyms. Have you ever heard someone count of 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4,? Well that's pretty much it, they cout off the speed of the song. But normally it's 1%26amp; 2%26amp; 3%26amp; 4%26amp;.

If you were talkig you would say, ';One and, two and, three and, four and,';



Each ';1 and';, is a beat. The above numbers would represent 4/4 time since there are four beats....... get it?

So now a whole note would mean you get four beats since it's the whole beat. A half note is only half and would only get ';1 and two and';

a quarter note only gets 1/4 beats or 1 beat out of four or just ';1 and';

and an eighth note only gets 1/8 or it gets split up, half of a quarter beat or ';1'; or just ';and';



Now a sixteenth note gets 1/16 beat.... but of course we don't have sisxteen easily countable beats since if we add up ';1 and two and three and four and'; you see there's only four wor
Go to Youtube and type waltribeiro guitar. you ll get a very nice collection from Walt that covers almost all types of guitar playing techniques.
each line is a string, with the bottom line as the lowest string. Each number represents which fret to play. Other symbols are usually explained in the tab.
If you could pot a link as an example of what they looked liked maybe I could explain



Theres only one type I can understand =/
tabs are easy



numbers are the frets taht you hold down



then strum..