In this lesson we will learn the basics of reading notes on your guitar

Reading notes is really quite easy.

If you think of written music as a picture of sound, it makes more sense. Take the staff you learned about in lesson 6:



Think about the staff as a ladder, but a ladder where you can step on both lines and spaces. Just like going up a ladder, when you go up a staff, the notes get higher, and lower when you go downwards. When you are familiar with the notes on your instrument, then you just follow them on the staff - as they go up and down, your fingering goes up and down.