Reading Musical Notation for Classical Guitar

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Hi my name is John Armstrong with expertvillage.com I'm a professional guitar instructor and today we are going to be discussing beginning classical guitar. In order to play classical guitar I fill that is very important that you understand how to read actual musical notation. A lot of other forms of guitar allow you to get away with maybe being able to record diagrams and or tab lecture or scrubbing patterns and things like that and that is really not going to be something that you are going to be able to pull off very well in classical guitar. We need a musical notation which better allows use to get the sense of the rhythm of the song. That dynamic of loud and soft and growing gradually louder and gradually softer or crescendoing or decrescendo. All of this is convey much more effectively through the use of musical notation. Really in order to become a classical guitar player I feel and I think most classical guitarist would agree with me that is very important to that you have a least a basic understanding on how to read musical notation. It is very important to spend a large part of your practice session spent a working on your reading especially at first and even when you continue on through your guitar playing career classical guitar. You really need to work on reading. Reading something that is a never ending struggle to learn to become a better reader so what I'm going to be discussing with you now the basic of learning how to read. We are just going to learn how to read basically in the key of C major or a A minor in the open position. So what would involve the use of a A sharp or a flat is quiet yet but that is what I'm going to be teaching you now. Starting with basically reading music notation we use a typical 5 line 4 space musical staff. On guitar typically you see the use of the trouble or G cleft something called the G cleft because there is a little squirt the circle it circles the G line on the string. Basically the cleft sign sets up the values of the letter names of the lines and spaces of the staff. We would first start off by just discussing the lines the lines are E starting from bottom to top E,G,B,D and the top line is F. A little saying that is commonly used to help people to remember that is every good boy does fine, every good boy deserve fudge, even George Bush drives fast, there is a lot of saying that you could use to help you remember that. But, it is very important that you know that For example note placed on the top line is a F note it tells use to play a F note on our guitar. The spaces the four spaces of the musical staff would be label starting from bottom to top F,A,C, and E which as you could say spells the word face. So very important that you memorize the letter names of the lines and the spaces of the musical staff E,G,B,D,F and F,A,C, and E.

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