
Now the tablature itself is a staff with six horizontal lines, each one representing a string of the instrument.

The guitar fretboard with the string names and fret numbers is shown in the image above, in the view you see when you are holding your guitar and looking down at the fretboard. Name of the Guitar Strings (open strings): To help understand this idea let's first learn the name of the guitar strings. Tablature (or TABS) is a form of musical notation that indicates what fret and string should be played.


If you just bought a guitar and cannot wait to learn a song, tablatures are going to become your new best friend.
