#GUITAR TAB NOTES TON SHEET MUSIC HOW TO#
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Now that you’ve read all the tones on the staff, it’s time to look at the notes between the notes.įor example, here are the E, F, and G notes (open string, first and third frets) on the first E string: Just remember that everything lines up vertically, so each Guitar TAB number matches the note above it. I’ve included Guitar TAB below the notes so you can use it to help you learn note positions. Here is an example of a C Major scale played from the E (sixth) string all the way to the E (first): This means that each note on the E string will be higher than the staff. The first string E corresponds to the upper space of the staff. Ledger lines are used for the low E and A strings, or the sixth and fifth strings, respectively. Let’s start by finding the notes of the open strings on the staff.Īs you can see in the figure above, open-string notes cover a wide range of the staff.

#GUITAR TAB NOTES TON SHEET MUSIC HOW TO#

Now that you know how to read the staff and the locations of the notes on it, let’s take a look at how to find those notes on the guitar fretboard. You can see that using 8va makes these tones easier to read.Ĩva means ‘a higher octave’ and 8vb means ‘a lower octave’. The second bar shows exactly the same four tones without writing 8va. This means that each note below the dotted line must play an octave higher than what is written. In the example below, you can see that there is “8va” and a dotted line written above the staff. If we need to play very low or high notes on the guitar, instead of using ledger lines, we can use the symbol to ‘move’ the staff up or down an octave. We can extend ledger lines as much space as we have, but it can become difficult to read when using a lot of lines! The distance above this ledger line is B, followed by C on the second Ledger line.

We know that the highest note above the staff is G, so the next note from G is A. The first note is on the Ledger line above the staff. Here are some examples of Ledger lines above the staff: The distance below this ledger line is B, followed by an A on the second ledger line. We know that the lowest space below the staff is D, so the next pitch from D is C. Here are some examples of ledger lines below the staff: One way we can do this is by using ledger lines, which are short lines that you add to the staff to expand it above or below the five lines. What if we wanted to play a lower note than this one? The lowest note shown above is a D below the staff.

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To solve this problem, we use different symbols to scale the stave to cover the full extent of the fretboard. Obviously, we can play much more than eleven notes on the guitar. If you count all these points, you will end up with eleven tones. Here are all the notes on the stave when we combine lines and spaces: The space below the bottom line is D, the bottom line is F, the second space is A, the third space is C, the fourth space is E, and the space above the top line is G. We can also put notes between lines which are called spaces. The bottom line is E, the second line is G, the third line is B, the fourth line is D, and the fifth line is F. With the Treble Clef in location, we can now take a look at the locations of the notes on the staff.Ī tone (or note) can be placed on each of the five lines to represent a tone as shown below: In the Treble Clef or G Clef, the end of the small curve is placed on the second line, which means that this line represents the G note.Īlto and Tenor clefs are used with other instruments, so we will not look at them in this article. Guitar music is usually written using treble clefs, and bass music is usually written using bass. There are four types of clef symbols that you may see used in music as shown below: G Clef (Treble), F Clef (Bass), Alto Clef, and Tenor Clef.

To the far left of the stave, a symbol called a clef is used to tell you what kind of stave you will be playing. Each bar lasts the same length of time unless the time signature tells you otherwise. The position of these bar lines depends on the number of notes in the bar and the Time Signature (we will explain later). The stave is divided into bars using vertical lines called bar lines: The notes are placed on or between these lines to represent the notes on the guitar. The staff consists of five horizontal lines: Read Classical Sheet Music – Lines and Spaces The first thing we need to understand to read classical sheet music for guitar is the staff.

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