{"id":735,"date":"2025-08-20T14:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T14:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/?p=735"},"modified":"2025-08-20T15:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T15:06:10","slug":"using-simple-tabs-advantages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/08\/20\/using-simple-tabs-advantages\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Simple tabs &#8211; Advantages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Playing from a simple tab like the one below offers you several different ways to &#8220;attack&#8221; the song. <\/p>\n<div style=\"padding:59.49% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1108899203?badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"30-Minuet-in-G\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>1. First, the melody is right there in tab &#8211; played in single notes.<br \/>\n2. Second possibility: you can use the indicated chords to simply play along with the melody.<br \/>\n3. Third you play the melody+simple harmony on 2 strings. Even though the chords consist of more than 2 notes, fingering the chords helps you to choose the appropriate harmony notes.<br \/>\n3. This is also the case for playing &#8220;triads&#8221; (on 3 strings). If you finger the chords you should be able (fairly easily) to pick out a series of three string combinations that include the primary melody note.<\/p>\n<p>Two more possibilities include<br \/>\n4. Playing the song across 4 or 5 strings. The chords as indicated should help you do this. Just be sure that the string combination you choose includes the melody note you&#8217;re looking for.<br \/>\n5. Arpeggiate your string combinations &#8211; in other words, rather than playing them as two, three or four string chords, play them as two, three, or four string arpeggios.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Playing from a simple tab like the one below offers you several different ways to &#8220;attack&#8221; the song. 1. First, the melody is right there in tab &#8211; played in single notes. 2. Second possibility: you can use the indicated chords to simply play along with the melody. 3. Third you play the melody+simple harmony [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,2,51,7],"tags":[48,28,53],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chords-plus","category-exercises","category-guitar-songs","category-guitar-tips","tag-guitar-chords","tag-guitar-lessons","tag-play-guitar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":739,"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions\/739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}