| The Classical Guitar Tutorial for Beginners |
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| Chapter Eight: Reading sheet music -The
notes on the staff |
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This is an empty staff. You have probably seen this before.
The notes that you play are placed on this staff. There are five lines
and four spaces. Each line and each space represents a note. There is
a vertical line at the beginning of this staff and another at the end
of this staff. The interval between these two lines is one measure. You
will learn more about measure. |
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Notes are named from A to G and repeat higher up the scale.
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Now we have added a couple of things to our measure. The
funny looking symbol. Kind of like a big G. denotes where the G note is
on the staff. |
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The funny looking G is a G clef and it shows you right where
the G note is on this staff. It curls around one particular line. That
line is the note G. The red arrow shows it here. |
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The two fours indicate how many beats in a measure
and what note equals one beat. You will learn more about this. |
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So now we know where the G note is. Where are the other
notes. This is real easy. Remembering that the notes go from A to G then
start over again we can find the notes. They simply go up from line to
space. |
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Here are the notes on this staff. So the bottom line is
E and the very top line is F. and all the spaces and lines in between
are notes. |
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How does this relate to the guitar? |
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That is very easy. Once we know the notes on the guitar
we can tell what to play by looking at the staff. |
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with tutorial |
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