How Do You Play Acoustic Guitar Songs With Tabs?
guitar tablature is a double edged sword. On one hand, it’s simple, easy to read, and requires no knowledge of music theory. On the other hand, it doesn’t convey rhythm, strum patterns, or other less noticeable techniques. Here is how you can take a tab and use it to play the real song. Find the tab for the song you want to play. Great tab sites are ultimate-guitar.com (my personal favorite), chordie.com, fretplay.com, xguitar.com, and so on. A google search should give you most or all of these options. On a site like Ultimate-guitar.com, most songs have multiple tabs. This is because most songs don’t have official tabs, and are made by experience guitarists who listen and create tabs by hand. Therefore, for each song there will often be slightly different ways of playing it. This is actually a good thing (wisdom in numbers). Your best bet is to play as many versions as you can, listening to which one sounds most like the real song. Often you will have to take parts of different tabs a
