Tabs can be very confusing to learn--trust me, I know from expirence. Since that being said, I'm going to try and explain this in the easiest way possible, so that after reading this, you'll be an expert at reading tabs! (Okay, maybe not an expert....)



Tabs are simply a representation of a guitar neck, the six horizontal lines representing the six strings. The thin string is at the top, the stick string at the bottom. The time element of a piece of music reads from left to right, same as standard notation, and the numbers representing notes appear in the order they are played in.



For example: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star