![]() The Guitar Fretboard Notes in Relation to the Staff To understand all that, be sure to check out the basic theory section. ![]() The sharps are included on the diagram of the fretboard, but note that the notes on the staff aren’t sharp or flat unless the key signature indicates that or there are specific accidentals.You can follow the notes linearly along the strings to match them to the notes on the staff. That said, let’s get into how to know which notes are where on the guitar. Piano sheet music, for example, won’t have those markings since the piano can’t do those things. Naturally if you find some music and there are markings for vibrato or bends, it’s for a stringed instruments. But most pieces and songs can be played on the guitar if they take your fancy. Well, some of the notes for brass instruments and woodwinds, organs, and even stringed instruments played with a bow are longer than the guitar can manage. But you can play any sheet music on a guitar. Technically, it’s just sheet music, although what you find for guitar may be specifically written for guitar. You’ll need a bit of theory, don’t worry, just the basics, before you will fully understand what’s going on. In order for your brain to send the messages to your fingers to play the notes you’re reading, you’ll need to practice on your guitar too. It takes time to get there and most importantly, consistent good practice. But once you get to know what each symbol means and how the lines and spaces work, it becomes as easy as reading a book. It just looks like a bunch of lines and symbols, and French or Italian words. Looking at sheet music for the first time can be overwhelming. But this is a nice transferable skill to develop. It’s not that you only find classic guitar pieces in guitar sheet music, you do find it in tabs too. A book of jazz licks can also be a great way to practice reading: just play the lick in multiple positions.Working off of tabs is perfectly fine, but if you want to level up a bit or you’ve developed an interest in classical guitar, sheet music is a good thing to learn. With all the free music (check out the free guitar music page for some sheet music and links) floating around online there should be no shortage of music to read. The key to getting better at reading is doing more of it. Most schools will have online access to the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians which is a tremendous resource. If you’re still a college or graduate student check out your school library website. It can also be helpful to have a reference around like The Harvard Dictionary of Music. Here is an online dictionary of music terms for your reference. It’s also possible that some markings or words are indications of special or extended techniques, but most pieces of music will have a legend or key for those markings. The other strange markings or words are going to be musical instructions on things such as tempo, articulation and dynamics. Most times the pinky is not used on the right hand, but sometimes a “c” pops up. To those former pianists (recovering pianists?) this can be a bit confusing as the thumb is normally considered 1. To notate left hand (LH) fingering, we use numbers: In addition to all the standard notation stuff, classical guitar music has some very specific things that go on in it. ![]() Practice reading individual melodies, in multiple positions on the guitar, first. This works well playing melodies but fails with polyphonic music. ![]() This can be accomplished very simply by saying the note names aloud while playing them. Their intellectual concept of the staff is well developed but their muscle memory is not. Often time students have a disassociation between the actual note names and where to put their fingers. That means at the beginning stage of reading music, one should talk through the sentences or words if need be and know the notes. It’s not about putting your fingers down and hoping, it’s about knowing. With these tools a beginning player should never guess the note which they are going to play. The spaces spell a word from bottom space to top: FACE. A young student came to me and he had made up his own sentence, “ Elmo Gave Barny Dead Fish” “ Even George Bush Drives Fast” is another. “ Every Good Boy Does Fine” is the most common sentence. Starting from the bottom line of the staff, a sentence can be used to figure out each of the notes on the lines. Notation reading should be fluent and effortless. There are great resources all over the web that teach and train reading on the staff. Like any other instrument, classical guitar music is written on a staff.
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