You don’t need to know guitar sheet music to learn to play guitar melodies. Let’s learn Morning Has Broken with guitar tab!
“Morning Has Broken” is a Christian hymn. Cat Stevens has recorded a popular version of the song.
Here is the first verse:
Morning has broken, like the first morning
Blackbird has spoken, like the first bird
Praise for the singing, praise for the morning
Praise for the springing fresh from the world
As I mentioned we will not use guitar sheet music notation. Many people find it hard to read sheet music on guitar.
In order to learn to play guitar melodies we will use another notation system called tablature.
Tablature or guitar tab is a form of musical notation, often with numbers and letters, which will tell you where to place your fingers on the guitar fretboard in order to play a melody.
In this article I will use a type of guitar tab notation with numbers only. The more common guitar tab staff notation you will find on my site.
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