Easiest Guitar Tab to PlayOpen StringsEasiest guitar tab to play for beginner guitar students -- open strings! I use this sheet of tablature exercises in the first week of guitar lessons. Start your students off learning how to read guitar tabs right away.
The left side of the tablature staff is like the head of the guitar; the right side is the guitar bridge. Represented at the bottom of the staff is string 6, the thickest, lowest string. At the top of the staff is string 1, the thinnest, highest-sounding string. Reading from left to right, the numbers on the strings stand for which fret to press with the left hand fingers. The number "0" means "open string" -- pluck that string without pressing down any frets. This exercise sheet is ALL open strings: 
Download simple guitar tabs for beginners This "easiest guitar tab to play" sheet is really almost a "hand/eye coordination" exercise. Can they match their right hand gesture (whether using a pick or a thumb) to the notation on the tab? No fret numbers on the strings takes a lot of the "fear factor" out of the job -- they can concentrate on just one hand at a time. That lowers the stress level, and makes it more likely they will remember your instructions when they get home and start to practice... that easy success helps students feel pleased with themselves. My personal preference as a teacher is to start students without a pick for the first few weeks of guitar lessons. Contact with the strings is so much easier and accurate with the thumb and fingers than with a pick, I think. After they have gotten used to plucking strings in a rhythmic manner and strumming, then I introduce the pick. I don't give them all the exercises the first week! Probably only the first two, then save #3 and #4 for the next two weeks as their skills increase. It is always tempting to load students up with LOTS of GOOD stuff -- then the following week you find out it was just too much of a good thing! Back from Easiest Guitar Tab to Play to Beginner Guitar for more free guitar Back Home for more free sheet music |
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I am a "retiree" and brand new guitar student. I have used your guitar tabs for Shenandoah and Amazing Grace, and find it exciting to hear real music coming out of my guitar for the first time.
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Thank you for a most excellent site. I am a classical guitar teacher, who endeavors to cover chords and fingerstyle as well.I especially liked the printable Celtic music, as some of my teenage students enjoy it!Thank you, again.
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Stumbled across your website by accident-slash-chance and it instantly became helpful... I sort of have to prove myself as a primary music teacher. Hasn't been easy, but I love the work. I found great ideas for my guitar unit on your site, as I didn't know where to begin. Thanks to you I will survive my next 6 weeks. I also teach choir to middle school, and I love your little morning warmups. Looking forward to more of that in the future. Keep up the great work, it is very inspirational for us beginner teachers.
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I am a missionary wife living in Spain... I also am teaching guitar to 2 adults, and have run across the same problem. The Spanish material is all very complicated very quickly so many of my students would become discouraged. So, just writing to say thank you for all the work you´ve put into this and I´ll be using some of your pieces and certainly the advice to keep improving my teaching skills.