Guitar Theory

CHAPTER3

Reading Directions

In This Chapter

• Reading chord charts
• A very brief glance at reading notation
• A quick look at guitar tablature
• Some notes about rhythm and timing
• Tips on reading notation, charts, and tablature

Now that you know your notes, you need a way to read them more efficiently than using a fretboard map. After all, you don’t want to read pages of “put your finger on the such and such fret of the such and such string” over and over when you can get the same information with a quick glance.

That being said, fretboard maps such as those used in the previous chapter are going to be the bulk of your reading material. You’ll also ...