Well guys, I have to disagree with a few things here as far as playing guitar goes.

Although learning songs and such from tab is fun it is not something I would recomend relying on as a whole.

If you only read tab you are never going to learn the basic need to knows of the guitar. You dont even learn individual notes from tab, all it does is show you what finger to put on what frett. This will allow you to play a song but thats about it.

Lessons are essential if you are at all serious about playing. A good teacher will start you off by teaching you each individual note on the frett board as well as some of the essential scales that will improve your playing amazingly in a relatively short period of time.

I also think by just reading tab you wouldt know in 8 years what a kid that has taken lessons for a year knows. He will understand his instrument while the guy reading the tab only understands what songs he has learned through tab. You wont know when to use teh right scale over the right chords, there is just so much that you are missing by useing tab.

The biggest thing I recomend is not start useing tab. Go take lessons for a few moths and learn your basics. Then take that structure you got froma qualified teacher and build from it. Once you have the raw essentials down you will be able to play anything you want and everything will come 100xs easier than if you sat home noodleing and reading tab.

Jason

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