Beginner's Guitar lesson 6

Reading and Playing

So we can understand each other, we'll state some name conventions.

From now on, your left hand fingers will be refered as:

Index finger = 1
Middle finger = 2
Ring finger = 3
Small finger = 4

And your right hand fingers will be refered as:

Thumb finer = p
Index finger = i
Middle finger = m
Ring finger = a

Now, let's go to Exercise 1!

Wow! Your first exercise!

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E||-----------------0----|-----------------0----|-----------------0----|
B||------------1---------|------------1---------|------------0---------|
G||-------2--------------|-------2--------------|-------1--------------|
D||----------------------|----------------------|----------------------|
A||--0-------------------|--0-------------------|----------------------|
E||----------------------|----------------------|--0-------------------|

-----------------0----|-----------------0----|-----------------0----|
------------0---------|------------1---------|------------1---------|
-------1--------------|-------2--------------|-------2--------------|
----------------------|----------------------|----------------------|
----------------------|--0-------------------|--0-------------------|
--0-------------------|----------------------|----------------------|

-----------------0----|-----------------0----|-----------||
------------3---------|------------3---------|-----------||
-------1--------------|-------1--------------|--2--------||
----------------------|----------------------|-----------||
----------------------|----------------------|--0--------||
--0-------------------|--0-------------------|-----------||

Duration Legend

W - whole
H - half
Q - quarter
E - 8th
S - 16th
T - 32nd
X - 64th
. - note dotted
|-n-| - n-tuplets

Tablature Legend

L - tied note
x - dead note
g - grace note
(n) - ghost note
> - accentuded note
NH - natural harmonic
AH - artificial harmonic
TH - tapped harmonic
SH - semi harmonic
PH - pitch harmonic
h - hammer on
p - pull off
b - bend
br - bendRelease
pb - preBend
pbr - preBendRelease
brb - bendReleaseBend
\n/ - tremolo bar dip
\n - tremolo bar dive
-/n - tremolo bar Release up
/n\ - tremolo bar inverted dip
/n - tremolo bar return
-\n - tremolo bar Release down
S - shift slide
s - legato slide
/ - slide into from below or out of upwards
\ - slide into from above or out of downwards
~ - vibrato
W - wide vibrato
tr - trill
TP - tremolo picking
T - tapping
S - slap
P - pop
< - fade in
^ - brush up
v - brush down

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Does it seem to have too many figures, letters and lines?

No! Not at all!

Now, what does all that means?

Let's start with the first bar.

You will press the 3rd string at the 2nd fret with the middle finger of your left hand, and, at the same time, you will also press de 2nd string at the 1st fret with the index finger of your left hand.

Now, with your left hand position taken, you will:

• First pluck the open 5th string with the thumb finger of your right hand
• Then the 3rd string with the index finger of your right hand
• Then the 2nd string with the middle finger of your right hand
• And then the 1st string with the ring finger of your right hand.

Then you will proceed with the second bar, and so on.

when you press a string with a finger of your left hand, that finger shouls not touch another string, as then that string will not sound correctly if plucked.

Remember what you learned in a previous lesson about the way your right hand fingers will pluck strings, and the necesary strength to press strings with your left hand so you get a clean sound.

Keep trying until you get:

• A clean sound each time you pluck a string
• A continuous playing, without delaying from one bar to he next

Now, come on! Go try it!

You'll find out that it's easy.

See you in the next lesson.

Now, let's go for Beginner's guitar lesson 7!