Pick up your guitar. Rotate the neck/fretboard towards you. Look down on it. That is what guitar tabs are. The numbers represent the fret you are supposed to fret ( 0 meaning none ), and some other symbols relate to specific playing techniques, like h for hammer-ons and p for pull-offs.

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each line is a string on the guitar. eg

———————————————- >> top string (E)
———————————————- >> next (A)
———————————————- >> (D string)
———————————————- >> (G string) > (B string)
———————————————- >> bottom string of guitar (e string)

there are 2 ‘e strings’ but the bottom thinner one is a higher pitch, but they’re both the same note.

and the numbers are simply the fret to press on the string you play. eg.

—0—-2—-2——0—-1——
———————————-2—
———————————-
———————————-
———————————–
————————————

would be playing an open string on e then the 2nd fret on the same string twice then the 1 on the same string, then the second fret on the a string below it. so an zero is open with no fingers press on the frets.

HOPE I HELPED

first you got six lines representing the strings of the guitar, with the bottom one being the low E string, the second from the bottom the A string, all the way to the top line being the high E string.

then you got the numbers that go on the lines which tell you which fret to play on that string. for example:

if you know your chords, the first one is an open e chord, the second is an A chord, and the third is a G chord
E—0————–0————3—-
B—0————–2————3—-
G—1————–2————0—-
D—2————–2————0—-
A—2————–0————2—-
e—0—————————-3—-

if you know your scales, here would be an E scale:

E——————————-
B——————————-
G——————————-
D———————–1–2—
A————0–2–4———-
e–0–2–4——————–

tabs also have a number of style markings (ill just show them on one line to save space) such as:

the pull-off (from 5th to 3rd fret)
–5p3————–

the hammer on (from 3rd to 5th fret)
–3h5——————-

the slide (from 3rd to 5th, then from 5th to 3rd)
–3/5–5\3—————–

most of the time, the person will give you a legend of what kind of markings they have used.
i hope this helps

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