Learning how to read guitar tab is an essential task for anyone new to the guitar. Most guitar players, unlike say violinists or pianists, are self taught and many have never learned how to read music. For guitarists who are able and happy to learn everything they want to play by ear, that’s not a problem. For the rest of us it makes it very difficult to learn new tunes, or it would if it wasn’t for guitar tab.
Ovidiu writes and publishes one of my favourite guitar blogs, Guitar Flame. It’s an eclectic mix of all things guitar-related. He’s on a drive to attract 5,000 readers a day, so why not help him out by checking out what he’s got to offer?
The Epiphone name first appeared in 1928 as The Epiphone Banjo Company and is derived from the nickname of its founder, Epaminondas Stathopoulo, ‘Epi’, and ‘phone’, the Greek for ‘sound.’