Now days reading and writing music has become viewed by the average guitarist as unnecessary, but what has become a useful tool to the normal rock-loving guitarist is guitar tablature. Even if you can already read music, it is much easier and cheaper to learn songs by rock guitarists in the form of tabs. Guitar tabs have become one of the most important music sources to many and a necessity to majority. It is one of the best ways to learn all your favorite songs by popular artists. That is why it is important to learn this easy to use form of music notation. This lesson will go over the basics of guitar tablature and what you can expect out of the average set of tabs.

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This is a very important question to any good musician. Whether it is power chords, bar chords, open chords or any other chord you can think of, knowing how chords are made and where they are used is one of the most crucial aspects of music. In this series of lessons you will learn: How to enhance a solo by harmonizing it, how chords are made, what makes harmony, what chords to use in a song, where to use a minor or a major, what that terrible sounding diminished chord is for and much more.

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