From the course: Banjo Lessons: 1 Fundamentals
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Reading tablature
From the course: Banjo Lessons: 1 Fundamentals
Reading tablature
- To work effectively with everything you are going to find in these lessons, it would be very helpful for you to be able to read tablature. I know many of you probably already read tablature, but if you don't, tablature is a way of, it's a music-notation system for banjo, specifically, and it's used a lot on various stringed instruments. There's guitar tablature and mandolin tablature, there's even fiddle tablature, although that's not as well known-about as the banjo tablature. But basically the handy thing about banjo tablature is, of course, you may have a program, there's some really good programs for tablature, that you can buy and put in your computer and load in there. But you can also go to your music store and just buy regular music-notation paper, because it has five lines, and each line represents a string of the banjo. And the top line represents the first string, the second line the second string, the third line is the third string, the fourth line down is the fourth…
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