Tomas Michaud | Must You Read Music to Play Guitar? Note Reading Basics @TomasMichaud | Uploaded June 2022 | Updated October 2024, 6 minutes ago.
Do you need to learn to read music in order to play the guitar? I'll answer that as well as go over the pros and cons of both guitar tablature and standard musical notation. You'll learn to easily recognize and understand different note values, rests, and time signatures.

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00:00 What you'll learn
00:17 Why not tab?
00:37 Standard notation = staff notation
00:57 Rhythm
01:28 Time Signature
01:59 Common Time
02:14 Rests
02:28 Melody
03:23 Sharps and Flats
04:23 Final tips