How do you read these guitar tabs?!?

Question

Intro repeat this x2

e|---|--------------------------------...

B|---|-----------------------4-7-4---4...

G|---|-------------------6-4-------4--...

D|6--|------6--------4-7--------------...

A|6--|--4-7---7-4-7-------------------...

E|4--|--------------------------------...

I'm trying to teach myself to play guitar this summer...i can play but finding it hard to figure out this kind of tab music!! I'd appreciate some help!!xx

Answer 1

Check this out for some help:

http://guitar.about.com/library/blhowtor...

Answer 2

E=Thickest/lowest sounding string

e=thinnest/highest sounding string

numbers refer to fret fingering on specific string. read left to right for order.

numbers on top of each other mean you play the relevant notes/strings at same time.

takes time to get used too but easier than notation.

Answer 3

the easiest way to understand this is this.

there are Six strings that you see there .

and in each string there is a number: the number indicates to you the fret. usually it runs from left to right . I play it and it sounds like a minor pentatonic scale or a harmonic minor

keep practicing

Answer 4

The numbers represent theposition on the fret board.

so to start you would put your first and second fingers on the 6th fret on the D and A strings and your third finger would be placed on the 4th fret on the E string, since they are all in straight line you strum them all together, nect you put your finger on the 4th fret of the A string then the 7th fret of the a string, so on and so on,

Hope this helps