Lesson 4: Intro To Music Notation

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Discussed in this lesson:

Music notation

Introducing the GuitarMore System

The musical staff: Five horizontal lines

Double bar

Treble clef

Time signature

Scale in the key of “C”

Ledger line

Learn to play the “C” scale by string number and fret number

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On the song sheet that you selected to learn (in the key of “C” as described in the video), look at each note on the music and write the string number beneath the staff and the fret number above the staff for each note in the song. Use figures 1 and 2 below for reference:

Figure 1: One ocatve range of notes in the C scale in first position:

Fret: 3 0 2 3 0 2 0 1

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String: 5 4 4 4 3 3 2 2

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Figure 2: Notes below and above the staff for the C scale in the first position:

Fret: 3 0 2 3 0 1 3

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String: 6 5 5 2 1 1 1


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