How To Play Guitar Tabs

Scales. Scales are actually one of the best types of guitar exercises (in my humble opinion) that help you master both speed and precise movement of fingers from string to string. While practising basic scales you also remember the most basic blocks of melodies. I mean, the easiest way to improvise is to move on a certain scale. Or two. Or three. Whatever you feel like. You should actually try it. If you don't know any scales yet, check out the lesson here, learn one of the scales, practise it until you know it very well, and then try to play a simple melody which consists of the notes on the scale with varying note lengths.

If you know how to play power chords already, then try to play the same melody using power chords. You'll be surprised how good the most basic melody could sound. Well, it depends

If you don't know tabs, you should check out this post on how to play guitar tabs first, since the scales lesson is actually using some basic guitar tabs for examples.