Music Reading: Understanding the Music Staff
The response from Andrew Wasson of Creative Guitar Studio to;
Was hoping that you could help me with the topic of Music Reading.
I have absolutely no understanding of reading music. So, I will just go over what I have been researching so far...
- Ive learned that music is read off of the Music Staff.
- The staff is composed of 5 lines and 4 spaces.
- The lines are named from the bottom going upwards; E, G, B, D, F. (mnemonic = Every Good Boy Does Fine)
- The spaces are named again from bottom going up F, A, C, E (spelling the word FACE).
- There are 5 note durations:
Whole = 4 beats,
Half = 2 beats,
Quarter = 1 beat,
Eighth = 1/2 a beat
Sixteeth note... (but, I have no idea what it looks like or what it does).
This is all I know. Ive heard that the lines on the staff represent strings on the guitar. If so, how come there are six strings on a guitar and five lines on the staff.? And, if the lines are the guitar strings, what do the spaces on the staff represent?
I am having a very difficult time understanding this. I have been watching your videos and I am hoping that you could help me to understand all of this.
- Shane
Andrew discusses the principles of the music staff including; Clef sign, Key Signature sign, Time Signature symbol, Note layout, pitch relationship to the guitar, and fingerboard concepts involved in learning to read music notation on guitar.
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