If you were to try to pick up a guitar and simply play, you won't get far without knowing the chords. As a beginner, it is vital you start from the bottom and work your way up. The chords are what help you put together songs, and if you're just starting out you'll need to start from the ground up. While there is no standard list of beginner guitar tabs that people go by, there are between 8 and 18 basic chords you will need to learn.

You've probably heard of tabs before, and maybe you've tried already to learn them but have just gotten frustrated. Like anything else, tabs can be a really challenging to learn if you don't have a teacher who is really good. Beginner guitar tabs are the easiest way for people who start to learn to read music. Why? Because it's not easy for the beginners to read standard musical notation and in order to do that, they needs to understand a little music theory and learn what all the notation symbols mean. But with beginner guitar tabs, instead of notes you have numbers that simply tell you where to put your fingers.

Open tabs are usually the first few tabs which you learn if you begin to play guitar. Of course, it is not easy to learn them but if you practice regularly you can learn them more quickly than you imagine. The best way to learn how to play these tabs is by learning musical chords. These tabs are used everyday by beginners as well as advanced players in all styles of music.

Beginner guitar tabs often are written in such a way that they represent chords, and every guitarist needs to know how these chords work. Chords are named according to letters going from A to G. Beginner guitar tabs are used a lot in music compositions. They are used mostly on acoustic guitar, but can be transcribed for electric guitar riffs too.

Once you do learn each one of these tabs, you will then need to put them together in such a way that you create these famous songs we all grew up with. Where is the best place to begin with beginner guitar tabs, you may wonder?

The reason why a person who begins to learn how to play the guitar can't play the guitar from tab without already knowing the song is the lack of a way of including note values on tablature. I have seen some beginner guitar tabs with E for "eighth" or Q for "quarter" above the fret numbers on tabs. This is probably the best way of telling the guitarist the length of the notes.