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Musical notation is not text friendly, so I will use tablature in this form:
<code>fig. 1<br/> C<br/>e--0-------------------------<br/>b--1--------------------0--1-<br/>g--0--------------0--2-------<br/>d--2-----0--2--3-------------<br/>a--3--3----------------------<br/>e----------------------------<br/> c d e f g a b c<br/></code> <pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">fig. 1<br /> C<br />e--0-------------------------<br />b--1--------------------0--1-<br />g--0--------------0--2-------<br />d--2-----0--2--3-------------<br />a--3--3----------------------<br />e----------------------------<br /> c d e f g a b c<br /></pre>
The horizontal lines represent the guitar strings. The letters on the left indicate the tuning used. If they are not present, assume standard tuning (more info in Lesson 4), which is the same as written above. The numbers indicate to play that note while fretting the indicated fret number (more in Lesson 3). 0 means don't fret any notes - use the open string. Tablature, like classical musical notation, is temporally aligned from left to right. So you play the left-most note(s) then the next one(s) to the right and so on. In the above example, you would strum an 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.