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Reading Bass Guitar Tabs

So you want to learn how to play the bass guitar and specifically how to read bass tabs. Tablature is just a way to write music that is specially formulated for the guitar or your bass. It is a short cut way to read guitar music and most people especially purists do not necessarily like tabs.

It however has its advantages, for one it makes it easy for anyone to learn a tricky run or tricky piece of music fairly easily using tab. If you did not know how to read music it could take years of study to learn those things well. The best possible way is actually to learn how to read both music notation and tabs.

Even if you just learn the basics of how to read music, for example learn basic rhythms, the difference between quarter notes and eight notes, triplets including what they look like on the page. Those things will help you even when you do use tabs.

Sometimes when you get tabs on the internet and people just threw them together in their basement. They do not always include the notation above the tabs. Even if you do not know how to read music it is very important to have the notation and the tablature. The tabs are clearly marked and the numbers represent what fret to play. So you know what fret and what string to play, you can go ahead and play the tune.

Now if you just read the tab, you have no way of knowing whether you are playing the right rhythm or not. There is nothing to indicate rhythm sometimes they try to space it out so that you kind of somewhat know, but without listening to the song there is really no way of knowing. That is why it is important to have the notation above, even if you do not read the notes you visualize the rhythm and when you read the tabs you can play the song right.

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