I've been playing guitar now for about 4 years now and I'm always learning and trying out new things.
I would say that I'm at that comfortable stage in playing where someone can give me a piece of music with chords on and I can play it straight away. This is not the case with tab however.
As a musician, I think it's important to be able to play any piece of music given, no matter what form it is presented in. I was never taught how to play guitar so all my experience has come from either watching other people on Youtube or just by picking the guitar up and learning how to do something.
Learning to play a song using tab is something that was new to me about a year ago. I had always found it a daunting thing that I needed to learn but kept avoiding. It is only recently that I started to learn how to read tab and how to sight read it, so that I could play a piece of music without having to look from the music, down to my guitar and work out where my fingers go.
As well as having my goal of learning new pieces to play on guitar via finger picking, I also set myself the task of learning how to sight read tab music.
This piece of music here was what I learnt in about 15 minutes. Now you might be saying that 15 minutes is either far too long or far too short for a piece that is just over half a minute long. I am proud of what I produced in such a short amount of time because not only did I sight read the tab (which I will post in my bibliography), but I recorded this without actually looking at the music or at my guitar, something I would not have been able to do several months ago. I think that I finally have a better understanding of the guitar as I am starting to learn more than I would have done when I first started. I am able to change the position of my fingers from each fret on each string with slight ease (only a few occasional mistakes) which means that soon, I will be able to play more complicated melodies (maybe even challenge myself and learn a difficult guitar solo).
Practice does pay off!
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