![]() The shapes of notes tell us how long the sounds last. We can keep adding flags to a note, getting sixteenth notes, thirty-second notes, and so on: Notes with one flag are called eighth notes. Notes with stems and hollow heads are called half notes notes with stems and solid heads are called quarter notes. When a stem is used, the head can be either hollow or solid: If a note has ONLY a head, the head is always hollow (as shown), and the note is called a whole note.Ī stem can be added to a note. The head of a note is a roughly circular shape: Notes are made up of one or more of three basic parts: a head, a stem, and flags or beams. Notes are symbols that indicate how long a sound lasts. Standard notation is very visual: the higher a note is on the staff, the higher it will sound. Combining these two, we can write the notes from E through F on the staff: The spaces, from the bottom up, spell out the word F-A-C-E. Using the treble clef, the lines are (from the bottom up): E-G-B-D-F, which you can remember using the mnemonic Every Good Boy Does Fine. Each line or space will represent one letter of the musical alphabet, which is the letters A through G. The purpose of a clef is to identify the names of the lines and spaces. Guitar music is usually written using a treble clef, which looks like this: Standard notation is written on a set of five horizontal lines called the staff: (my publishing company) because I’m basically just cropping artwork that appeared in my theory book… the ones labeled “Exercise #…” are created for this article, and are copyright Tom Serb 2005.įirst a few preliminaries for those of you unfamiliar with standard notation… Oh yeah – the illustrations are copyright 2002 by NoteBoat Inc. If you work with it, though, it’ll be well worth the effort – there won’t be any music you can’t understand or adapt to the guitar, even if you’ve never heard it before. ![]() It’ll be up to you to find other things to practice with. In these lessons I’m going to give you the basics, along with one exercise for each new concept. ![]() I’m not going to lie to you – learning to read standard notation on the guitar is a lot of work.
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