we're going to be checking out how to
read chord boxes and how to read guitar
tab so we're going to start off with the
chord boxes cuz that's something you're
going to be using right from the start
here so hopefully uh just over on this
green section here will just uh
magically appear there um and that's a
chord box showing you how to play a
chord so the thing that's that you need
to be kind of aware of first of all the
vertical lines the ones going up and
down this way represent the six strings
and the one on the right hand side is
the thickest string and the one on the
left hand side is the thinnest string
now the lines going horizontally I along
this
way these are the Frets and the two two
lines at the top that represents the nut
which weal about earlier is the plastic
or metal thing at the top of the guitar
so it's really important that you get
familiar with that one first now there's
a couple of other things about it that
you need to be aware of first of all the
little circles and the crosses at the
top above the nut a cross is going to
mean that you're not going to play that
string just don't pick it right later on
we might look at ways of muting it but
to start off with just don't pick it a
circle means that you're going to play
that string open zero for or o for open
um that's yeah just meaning that that
we're playing that particular string
with no fingers on it at all very
important now also on that neck diagram
you're going to see some little dots and
the dots are where you put your fingers
and next to that you'll see numbers 1 2
3 and four which are your fretting
fingers numbers now fretting hand is the
hand that plays the chords and for most
for a right-handed normal guitar player
that will be your left hand of course
it's the opposite for a left-handed
person but left hand so your index
finger will be your first finger finger
number one your middle finger or birdie
finger is number two ring finger is
number three and your little finger is
number four so that's the finger numbers
that you would put relating to the dots
there on your neck diagram pretty
straightforward neck diagrams we also
use them for learning scales but we're
going to talk about that a little bit
more when we actually start playing the
scales but the actual diagram stays the
same it's worth noting as well that some
people turn the diagram the other way
and some people lay it down on the side
this is the way I do it I keep it the
same way all the way through my website
I can't really see any advantages to the
other way the ways that other people do
it except they can kind of confuse the
things cuz most of the time you see the
horizontal uh well the sorry the
vertically placed neck diagrams the way
I show you in most chord books and stuff
like that so that's a bit about neck
diagrams the other thing we need to
check out is tab which we're not going
to be using straight away but it's
important that you understand what the
idea of it is so we end up with six
lines for tab if we get some to appear
here okay there's a little bit of tab
for you now um the six lines in tab like
normal music notation only has five
lines in tab we have six and those six
lines represent the six strings of the
guitar and the line on the top is
represents the thinner string and the
line on the bottom represents the
thicker string now the basic gist of T
because there's all sorts of little
tricks like bending and hammer on and
flick offs and all this sort of stuff
that you can right on Tab but for now
you only need to really understand the
basics which is the the lowest line is
the thickest string the thi the the top
line is the thinnest string the numbers
on the line represent the Fret that
you'd put a finger now it doesn't tell
you what finger to put where but if say
there's a five on the top line that
means that one one of your fingers is
going to go in the fifth fret of the
thinnest
string um if you see say a three on the
second from Top Line that's going to
mean that you're going to put one of
your fingers it doesn't tell you which
one in the third fret of the second
second thinnest string it's getting all
tongue tongue twistery now um and when
you see numbers written right on top of
each other that means that you'd play it
at the same time so if you looked at say
an E chord you'd see all up above and
each other would be from the thinner
string would be a 0 0 1 2 2 0 and that
would be the same as playing an open E
chord but we're going to talk about that
a little later it's just mainly I wanted
to make get that basic explanation out
to you so you can be able to read tab um
if you want a further explanation look
up the how to read tab on my website and
it goes through all of the things like
hammer on and flick offs and r r all of
those extra things that you might be
interested in checking out so um that's
the basics I think we're almost ready to
go now all we got to do is just make
sure your guitar's in June so uh join me
for that lesson and uh then I'll be
seeing you for some actual real proper
playing in stage one real soon don't go
far see you later
bye-bye