Beginners Guitar Lessons

so i’m a singer and currently auditioning for colleges and since that is my main priority right now i really don’t have time to take guitar lessons although i am planning on starting them this spring after my auditions are complete… however since i have a guitar already i’m trying to at least learn one song on my own to fool around with and i picked, underneath your clothes, by shakira cause i think it is such a lovely song and i love shakira lol… but i don’t understand how to play the chorus, Interlude and solo lol
Here is the link: http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/s/shakira/underneath_your_clothes_tab.htm

Chorus

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—–6——-10—–11—-11—–11 2x’s
—–6——-10—–11——–11–
-4–4—8—8—9–9—9———–

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——-6——-8—13————
—–3———8—13————
—4—-4—–6—11————-

Interlude

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—16———–14———–13————11—
—16-strum–14-strum–13-strum–11—
—14———–12————11————9—-

Solo

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–10—————————–10——————————–
–10-strum—–10–6–8—-10-strum—–10–6–10–8-
–8——————————–8——————————–

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–10——————————–10———————————–
–10-strum—–13–8–10~—10-strum—–13–8–10–8–6
–8———————————–8———————————–

Any help would be so greatly appreciated, thanks so much!!!!
ughh yahoo filled the ends in with ellipses but i left the link above if you want to view it that way… thanks again

haha nice situation. well if you see there are six lines with numbers. each one of those is one measure.each line represents a string. the bottom most line in the measure is the thickest string on the guitar. each number on the line represent the fret number it is on. so in the chorus it goes:
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—–6——-10—–11—-11—–11 2x’s
—–6——-10—–11——–11–
-4–4—8—8—9–9—9———–
that means you strum 4 on the thickest string, then you strum a chord that is a 4 on the thickest string, then a 6 on the second thickest string, and 6 on the next thickest string and so on and so forth. and to the right of all that it says 2x’s. that means to do it 2 times.
in the interlude and solo its the same thing. there is only one place i cant help you. i have never seen it say strum on a tab before, and i have been playing for about 2 and a half years. so no help there.

hope this helped

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