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The ''horizontal lines'' represent the guitar '''strings''', as though you are laying the guitar on your lap, face-up. The thinnest, highest-pitched strings appear above the thicker strings. The ''letters on the left'' indicate the '''tuning''' used. If they are not present, assume '''standard tuning''' (more info in [[Tuning and Harmonics]]), which is the same as written above.  The ''numbers'' on the strings indicate to play (pick the that string of) that note while fretting the indicated fret number (more in [[Basic Technique]]). 0 means don't fret any notes - pick the open string. Tablature, like classical musical notation, is ''temporally aligned'' You read tablature from left to right, playing the indicated notes in sequence, just like how you read words in a book. So you play When multiple notes appear in the left-most notesame column (sie. they are vertically aligned), then the next one(s) to the right, and so onyou play them all simultaneously. In the above example, you would strum an the 5-note open C major chord across 5 strings, then play the C major scale one note at a time moving from the lowest note to the highest.