can anyone please tell me how to read the following guitar tab?

Time of your life by Green Day

Tabbed by David Hill (gjhill( at )iafrica.com)
originally by:
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 21:51:56 +1300
From: Jacinta


Chords:

G :320033

C :032033

Dsus4 :000233

Em :022033


Tab 1 & Intro


G C Dsus4

|----------------------------------|-----------------------------------|

|----------3---------------3-------|---------3-----------------3-------|

|------------0---------------0-----|------------0----------2-----2-----|

|-----0--------0------0--------0---|-----2---------2----0----------0---|

|----------------------------------|--3--------------------------------|

|--3---------------3---------------|-----------------------------------|


Tab 2


Em Dsus4 C G

|----------------------------------|-----------------------------------|

|-------3----------------3---------|----------3----------------3-------|

|---------0---------2------2-------|------------0----------------0-----|

|----2------2----0-----------0-----|-----2--------2-------0--------0---|

|--2-------------------------------|--3--------------------------------|

|----------------------------------|--------------------3--------------|

Thanks

there is an easier way than using crappy text tabs. use guitar pro

then when u have installed that, go to www.mysongook.com and search for the tab you want. you will never use text tabs again

thanks for sharing that one b_c_r
normally i use mxtabs.net or guitartabs.cc

ya, i only revert to test tabs if i cant find the tab in guitar pro or even powertab format. even then all i do is put the tab into guitar pro so it can like to play it fo mah

helpful with odd time signatures and stuff

Thanks Blessed_confusion_reigns !!
Ive always used text tabs, but if this is easier, Im on my way to download it!

I've always used mxtabs.net and guitartabs.cc aswell. I'll give it a try

Try powertabs.net, very similar to Guitar Pro but the tabs on the site are excellent, often comparable to sheet music.

Also pietertjie, slap any tabs you get into notepad with courier as your font, that way it'll line up properly!

hey no offense guys but none of you actually helped the guy out mebbe the song he's trying to play isnt on powertabs or whatever yet

but anyways



this shows you how to play the chords

to play a G, hold top string on 3rd fret, second string from top on 2nd fret, second string from bottom on 3rd fret and bottom string on 3rd fret... the 0's mean leave the string open... so Dsus4 is gonna be 3 open strings, 4th string on 2nd fret and 5th and 6th on 3rd fret



tabs only look good on fixed-width fonts... so try using courier new or something to view tabs... ariel messes them up horrendously

for the intro tab, each line represents a string... the bottom line is the topmost string on the guitar (bass-E) and the top line is the bottom string on the guitar (high-E)

now, when you look at the tab, there are numbers on the lines. the numbers are the frets you play on those strings.

so, to play this, you would play

top string fret 3, 3rd string open, 5th string fret 3, 4th string open, 3rd string open
twice,

and then
2nd string fret 3, 3rd string fret 2... and so on

when you're playing tabs like these, you play one string at a time in the frets shown in the tab... like picking strings. the distance between one note and the next is an approximation of the timing... and if you see more than 1 number in the same vertical line, then those strings are played all at once, either plucking multiple strings at a time, or strumming them, if the strings are consecutive

hope this helps

I never knew beuges played guitar

Well explained, I dont think Eric Clapton, or Jimmy Hen could have explained it better.

On the note of tabs: Does anyone have a working tab for the clawhammer at the begginging of metallica: nothing else matters? I have made my own version up, but its off what it should be sounding like, and whatever I have found so far - has just made mine look good, which is not saying a lot.

hah

i had a pretty decent tab for NEM but all my tabs got lost when hard drive went byebye luckily its one of the few songs i still remember how to play (somewhat), so here it is dont click me k no need to mock me

www.mxtabs.net