What are tabs? Is it a silly man’s excuse not to learn sheet music? Is it the sheet music for non- Julliard and non-Berkley students? Of course not. Tabs have been here since the beginning of music. They are straight forward representations of the notes in your guitar. Nowadays, tabs are usually used for guitars and bass. Notes are pretty much complicated so tabs are great
For beginners, I suggest you first learn how to read tabs to make your lives easier. Tabs could be the answer to your problems. If you know how to read it then there would be no problem showing you stuff through tabs and you would be able to easily execute them and your learning would be on a quicker pace.
Tabs consist of lines and numbers. To know how tabs looks like, go to ultimate – guitar dot com and search for a sample tab of your favorite song. You would see in perfect detail how to play your favorite song, all parts of it, from intros to solos and other riffs that is within it. So why don’t you try it? I guarantee you; it would make your guitar practicing life much easier than usual. Instead of learning in some other way like sheet music, read tabs.