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Understanding chord diagram and tablature

 GUITAR TABLATURE Guitar tablature (tab for short) is a musical notation that indicates fingering on the instrument rather than musical pitches. The guitar has six lines to represent the six strings (from the first string to the sixth string) . The high E string is 1 and the low E string is 6. I used broken lines instead  of solid lines to illustrate. ---1-------------2----------------3----4---------0------------E ---------0-------------0-----0--------------------1------------B ----------------------------------------------------0------------G ----------------------------------------------------2------------D ----------------------------------------------------3------------A ------------------------------------------------------------------E In the tab above, the  numbers on the lines indicate the fret with exception of the number '0'. '0' means play open (without fingering). Reading from the left of the tab, you finger and play the first fret of the high E string which...