Open Position Note Reading (Guitar Lesson IM-126) How to play IF Stage 2
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0:11 - 0:14Hey, how're you doing? Justin here.
Welcome to IM-126 -
0:14 - 0:18where we're going to be talking
about reading music. -
0:19 - 0:21Now, it's another one of those perilous
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0:21 - 0:23-- like scales with the metronome is --
that reading dots. -
0:23 - 0:26Most of you guys, I'm guessing,
are TAB readers, -
0:26 - 0:28you know, and that's fine!
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0:28 - 0:29I recommend that.
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0:29 - 0:30When you're a beginner guitar player
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0:30 - 0:32you don't want to be learning to read music
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0:32 - 0:35because you'll end up playing
'Three Blind Mice' -
0:35 - 0:36and really boring stuff on the guitar
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0:36 - 0:38when you should be learning cool scales
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0:38 - 0:42that you could make up cool solos with,
and chords and riffs and stuff, you know. -
0:42 - 0:45But if you're going to be
an intermediate guitar player -
0:45 - 0:50I think there's a lot of benefits
to learning the very basics of reading music. -
0:50 - 0:52Just so you understand the idea of:
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0:52 - 0:54"Oh, these are the notes
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0:54 - 0:55and this is what the notes are called
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0:55 - 0:56and this is how I find them on my instrument."
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0:56 - 0:59If you want, for instance, to get
into a little bit of classical guitar, -
0:59 - 1:02just have a taste,
not be a classical guitar player, -
1:02 - 1:03but have a go at playing a classical tune,
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1:03 - 1:05you need to learn to read music.
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1:05 - 1:09If you want to learn jazz melodies,
you need to learn how to read music. -
1:09 - 1:12If you want to make up like a chord melody,
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1:12 - 1:14where you play chord
and melody at the same time -
1:14 - 1:16from a sheet music book
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1:16 - 1:20then it's really helpful to be able
to look at the melody that's being played -
1:20 - 1:21and figure out how to to it on the instrument.
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1:21 - 1:24So, what I recommend that we do in this session is
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1:24 - 1:28that we have a look at understanding
the notes on the stave -
1:28 - 1:30and how to find them on the instrument.
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1:30 - 1:32And there's a third stage as well
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1:32 - 1:34if you're looking really
at learning to sight-read -
1:34 - 1:37which is to be able to read instantly,
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1:37 - 1:40which is: learn the notes on the stave
-- that's part 1 -- -
1:40 - 1:42learn the notes on guitar
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1:42 - 1:45and then the flow of seeing it
and making it come out of the instrument -
1:45 - 1:46would be part 3.
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1:46 - 1:48We're not going to be looking
at part 3 much, right? -
1:48 - 1:52We're going to start off with just talking
about the notes on the stave. -
1:52 - 1:54Now, I've mentioned "stave" a couple of times.
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1:54 - 1:57A "stave" is what we call the five lines
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1:57 - 1:59that notation (or the dots) are written on.
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1:59 - 2:01Now, TAB has six lines, of course,
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2:01 - 2:02that represent the six strings.
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2:02 - 2:07The stave (five lines) has got nothing to do
with the guitar strings at all -
2:07 - 2:08because they're universal.
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2:08 - 2:09They can be read by any instrument
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2:09 - 2:11and that's a pretty cool thing as well.
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2:11 - 2:12If you're trying to write down something
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2:12 - 2:14that you can do on guitar for a violin
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2:14 - 2:16to play it on a record or something, you know,
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2:16 - 2:18there's loads of good reasons
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2:18 - 2:20to be able to read a bit, right?
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2:20 - 2:22So, the first thing we need
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2:22 - 2:24is to have a look at a stave.
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2:24 - 2:26So let's get a little stave going up just here.
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2:26 - 2:29Now, you can see that there's five lines there
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2:29 - 2:32and that means that there's four spaces.
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2:32 - 2:35So, kind of the way
that people have been learning to read music -
2:35 - 2:36and the way
that I learned to read music -
2:36 - 2:39is by looking at the spaces
and then the lines. -
2:39 - 2:45Now, the spaces contain the notes
F, A, C and E. -
2:45 - 2:47F is in the bottom space,
the lowest down one, -
2:47 - 2:49A is in the next space up,
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2:49 - 2:51C is in the space above that
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2:51 - 2:54and the top space has the note E in it.
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2:54 - 2:56So, that's the first thing to get through.
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2:56 - 2:58Now, the second thing
that you have to remember -
2:58 - 3:01is 'Every Good Boy Deserves Fruit'.
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3:01 - 3:03Now I'm sure most of you have heard that before,
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3:03 - 3:05you know, that's been around for,
I don't know how many centuries, -
3:05 - 3:06but people have been using that,
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3:06 - 3:10I learned that to remember the notes on the lines.
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3:10 - 3:13So, the lowest down line is the note E,
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3:13 - 3:16the next line up is the note G
-- every Good... -- -
3:16 - 3:19and the next line above that is the middle line,
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3:19 - 3:21is the note B
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3:21 - 3:24The next line above that is D for Deserves
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3:24 - 3:27and the top line is F for Fruit.
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3:27 - 3:30'Every Good Boy Deserves Fruit' and 'FACE'.
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3:30 - 3:33Both those things should be very easy to remember.
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3:33 - 3:36Now what you wanna do
in order to learn that stuff really good -
3:36 - 3:38is to get any piece of music at all,
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3:38 - 3:41it doesn't matter what bit of music it is,
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3:41 - 3:43you can download any sheet music that you like,
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3:43 - 3:46it wouldn't even matter whether it's music
that you like or not. Don't worry about that. -
3:46 - 3:48But just get some sheet music from somewhere
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3:48 - 3:49and start naming the notes.
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3:49 - 3:51I've got some examples on the web page.
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3:51 - 3:54On this very lesson page,
if you look down to the bottom of it , -
3:54 - 3:57you'll find some examples
where you can just start to look at the notes -
3:57 - 3:59and start naming them.
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3:59 - 4:02And that's really the first thing
that you want to think about. -
4:02 - 4:04It's just being able to name the notes.
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4:05 - 4:08Now, once you know the names of the notes
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4:08 - 4:11the next kind of task part
is putting it on the guitar neck. -
4:11 - 4:17Now, the guitar neck contains notes
that go outside of the stave. -
4:17 - 4:19So we have to use a thing called 'ledger lines'
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4:19 - 4:23and if you look now at this illustration here
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4:23 - 4:28you'll see the names of the notes
of the open strings on the guitar. -
4:28 - 4:32So if we're starting off with E
which is the top space. -
4:33 - 4:34That one, that's the top space.
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4:34 - 4:39We've got the note B which is the middle line.
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4:39 - 4:41We've got G which is the third string,
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4:41 - 4:43which is the second line up from the bottom.
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4:43 - 4:47We've got D which is below the stave.
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4:47 - 4:50It's kind of, if you like,
the space below the stave. -
4:50 - 4:52We've got the note A
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4:52 - 4:54which is two ledger lines below the stave,
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4:54 - 4:56right on the line
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4:56 - 5:00and E which is underneath three ledger lines.
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5:00 - 5:03So you can see that that's how it's made up.
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5:03 - 5:05That's how you get the notes
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5:05 - 5:07on the open strings
on the instrument. -
5:08 - 5:12So, the next stage is to learn
how to recognise all of those notes -
5:12 - 5:14and it's a little bit tricky, you know.
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5:14 - 5:16If you learn the notes on the stave
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5:16 - 5:19you can count down
because it's all alphabetical. -
5:19 - 5:22if you look at this illustration now
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5:22 - 5:25you'll see all of the notes in the open position
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5:25 - 5:28starting at E and then F
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5:28 - 5:30which is on the third ledger line,
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5:30 - 5:32G: beneath two ledger lines,
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5:32 - 5:35A: on the two ledger lines,
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5:35 - 5:37B: beneath one ledger line,
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5:37 - 5:39C: on one ledger line,
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5:39 - 5:42D: beneath the stave,
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5:42 - 5:45this E is the note that's on the bottom line,
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5:45 - 5:49F: first space, G: second line,
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5:49 - 5:51-- God, this is getting tricky --
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5:51 - 5:55A: just in the second space,
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5:55 - 5:57B, which is the middle line,
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5:57 - 6:00C: second from top space,
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6:00 - 6:03D: second to top line,
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6:03 - 6:06E, which is the top space,
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6:06 - 6:08F, which is the top line,
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6:08 - 6:12and G which is the above-the-stave position.
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6:12 - 6:17So, the next stage for you is
to find any old bit of sheet music -
6:17 - 6:19and find how to play the notes on the guitar.
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6:19 - 6:21So, don't worry about keeping it musical
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6:21 - 6:23or anything like that or the rhythms or any.
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6:23 - 6:26Just let all of that go for now.
You can deal with that later. -
6:26 - 6:29What you want to do to start off with
is just looking at the note and going : -
6:29 - 6:32"Right, OK, that one,
that's on the middle line." -
6:32 - 6:35"Right, so middle line.
Every Good B...Boy." -
6:35 - 6:38"so it's a B note" and then: "'B note."
"Which was that B on the guitar?" -
6:38 - 6:41You'll probably have to use that little chart
that I've just had on the screen. -
6:41 - 6:43It's on the web site, either print it out
or write it out for yourself -
6:43 - 6:46and then go: "B, OK that was THAT B."
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6:46 - 6:47Because there's two B's:
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6:47 - 6:50There's B here at the 2nd fret of the fifth string
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6:50 - 6:51and B open string.
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6:51 - 6:54So you need to know
not just what the notes are, -
6:54 - 6:56but which E is which,
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6:56 - 6:59you know, or which B is which on the guitar,
you know. -
6:59 - 7:01Takes a little bit of practice
and I got to be honest: -
7:01 - 7:03Learning to read music properly
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7:03 - 7:07and just be able to look at it
and play it on the guitar is a real pig. -
7:07 - 7:10It's difficult to do
which is why most people don't do it. -
7:10 - 7:13Most, probably the majority of, should I say?
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7:13 - 7:18Yeah, I would guess
that the majority of professional guitar players -
7:18 - 7:19-- well, maybe not professional. --
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7:19 - 7:21The majority of guitar players don't read music.
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7:21 - 7:24Most professional guitar players can read music a bit
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7:24 - 7:25but not very many are good at sight-reading.
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7:25 - 7:27I'm certainly not much good at sight reading anymore
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7:27 - 7:29just 'cause I don't have to do it much.
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7:29 - 7:30I can work it out pretty quick,
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7:30 - 7:33but doing it like
just looking at some difficult bit of music -
7:33 - 7:38and playing it right off,
you know, that's difficult. -
7:38 - 7:40The reason it's difficult,
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7:40 - 7:43-- actually I may as well explain it to you :
we've got plenty of time ! -- -
7:43 - 7:46is that the one note can be found
in lots of different places on the guitar, -
7:46 - 7:52so if we take the note E in the top space,
that's here, that's this E. -
7:52 - 7:55Now, you can play it
as the open thinnest string, -
7:55 - 7:57we can also play the same note
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7:58 - 8:00as the 5th fret on the second string
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8:01 - 8:03or the 9th fret of the third string
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8:04 - 8:06or the 14th fret of the fourth string
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8:07 - 8:11or the 19th fret of the fifth string.
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8:11 - 8:14I could play it on the 24th fret
of the thickest string as well, -
8:14 - 8:17only I don't have 24 frets on this guitar
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8:17 - 8:18so I can't actually play it for you,
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8:18 - 8:21but you can see there that straight away
it gives you a bit of a problem, -
8:21 - 8:23because you don't know where to play it.
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8:23 - 8:24So this same little line
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8:24 - 8:31. . .
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8:31 - 8:33can be played all over the guitar neck.
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8:33 - 8:35A TAB sorts that out, it just says:
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8:35 - 8:36"This is where you play the notes."
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8:36 - 8:38Which is a lot easier
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8:38 - 8:39when you're a beginner guitar player.
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8:39 - 8:42But like I said, if you're trying to communicate
with another muscician, -
8:42 - 8:43who's maybe not a guitar player,
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8:43 - 8:45they're not going to know TAB
or how to use it. -
8:45 - 8:49So, learning just the basics of how to read,
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8:49 - 8:51you know, what the notes are,
it's a really, really, -
8:51 - 8:53I think it's a really good skill, you know,
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8:53 - 8:54it's a bit difficult!
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8:54 - 8:57Now what I'm trying to show you
is just open position. -
8:57 - 8:59I don't think that you should bother
trying to learn up the neck yet, right? -
8:59 - 9:02That's a whole another ball game
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9:02 - 9:04and it just takes
loads and loads of practice -
9:04 - 9:06if you wanna do it.
It's not particularly difficult. -
9:06 - 9:07it just takes lots of practise.
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9:09 - 9:10What I would recommend that you do is
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9:10 - 9:12get used to playing in this open position.
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9:12 - 9:15And the way I would recommend that you do it
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9:15 - 9:17is by having a go at a song or two.
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9:17 - 9:20Just picking a bit of sheet music
and trying to play it. -
9:20 - 9:23You know, classical music is really good.
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9:23 - 9:25I learned to read it on classical music.
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9:25 - 9:27I wanted to go to a classical guitar school
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9:27 - 9:29and you had to be able to read music
to get in there -
9:29 - 9:32so I went to the guitar teacher
who was at the school -
9:32 - 9:34and said 'I'd really love
to come to your school', -
9:34 - 9:37he gave me really difficult bit of sheet music,
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9:37 - 9:41Fernando Sor's Study No.9,
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9:41 - 9:43which is a really horrible looking thing,
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9:43 - 9:45and said: "OK, if you can learn to read that
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9:45 - 9:46in two weeks, then I'll let you in."
Kind of thing. -
9:46 - 9:48And I was "Oh my God",
it was really difficult! -
9:48 - 9:51But I did it,
I figured out how to do it, -
9:51 - 9:54exactly with the sheets,
the information that I'm giving you, -
9:54 - 9:56which is showing you the notes
in the open position -
9:56 - 9:59and then I kind of worked out that all :
that note is that note and -
9:59 - 10:02it's possible to do it that way and you learn!
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10:03 - 10:06It's not a difficult thing if you wanna pursue it, right?
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10:06 - 10:08Not saying you should,
I'm just saying: -
10:08 - 10:11"Let's get the basics down and understand
how to read the notes on the stave, -
10:11 - 10:13how to find them on the guitar neck
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10:13 - 10:16so that you can use that skill."
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10:16 - 10:17That's what I would like you to do.
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10:17 - 10:20So, go and check out the examples
that I've got on the web site -
10:20 - 10:22have a go at just naming the notes.
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10:22 - 10:24You can do that anyway : naming the notes,
you can do it on the train. -
10:24 - 10:26If you've just got a bit of sheet music
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10:26 - 10:28you can look at it and go
"Right, OK, top space." -
10:28 - 10:30"F, A, C, E - that's an E! Wahay!"
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10:30 - 10:31You know,
and keep going like that -
10:31 - 10:33just to learn what the notes are on the stave.
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10:33 - 10:35Same with the counting the lines, you know,
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10:35 - 10:37when I was learning to read music
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10:37 - 10:37I'd go 'Right, OK, well,
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10:37 - 10:39I know that bottom line is an E
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10:39 - 10:41so the next space down is a D
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10:41 - 10:43and then the next space down there must be a C
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10:43 - 10:45so, oh! That must be a B!'
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10:45 - 10:47Be cool with that, you know,
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10:47 - 10:49when you're learning
that's what's going to happen -
10:49 - 10:51and the more you do it,
the more experience you get, -
10:51 - 10:53the faster you get to recognize
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10:53 - 10:54and you just go 'Yeah, that's that note
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10:54 - 10:56and that's that note and that's that note
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10:56 - 10:58and it's played here' you know.
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10:58 - 11:01So stick with it. I know it's a bit gnarly
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11:01 - 11:04and doing this kind of, you know,
note reading thing, -
11:04 - 11:07a lot of people don't like doing it
and I don't blame them -
11:07 - 11:08but I do think it's a really useful skill
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11:08 - 11:12so if you want to go through it,
and you want to do, you know, -
11:12 - 11:15I think, be a really good solid intermediate player
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11:15 - 11:18and not get unstuck later
when there's something you want to do. -
11:18 - 11:20I'd have a good crack
at this note reading thing. -
11:20 - 11:22It's a bit tricky
but really worth sticking up. -
11:22 - 11:24So, I hope you understand the basics now
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11:24 - 11:26and you understand what to do.
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11:26 - 11:28There's a lot more information on the web page,
of course -
11:28 - 11:29because this is about reading music
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11:29 - 11:32and not me talking or playing stuff, so
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11:33 - 11:34Have fun with that
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11:34 - 11:36and I'll see you for another lesson
some time very soon. -
11:36 - 11:38Take care of yourselves.
Bye-bye.
- Title:
- Open Position Note Reading (Guitar Lesson IM-126) How to play IF Stage 2
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Justin's Completely Free, Intermediate Guitar Course Lesson IM-126.
Stage 2, Lesson 6.In this lesson I'll explain the very basics about reading music for guitar - real basic, what the notes are on the stave and where to find them on the guitar - lots moe info on this is on the web site too!!
Find the related course notes on the following link:
http://justinguitar.com/en/IM-126-OpenPositionNotes.phpThis is part of Justin's Intermediate Guitar Method, Foundation. A series of lessons available free online!
http://justinguitar.com/en/IM-000-IntermediateMethod.php
Taught by Justin Sandercoe.
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And it is all totally free, no bull. No sample lessons, no memberships, no free ebook. Just tons of great lessons :)
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Have fun :)
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- Video Language:
- English
- Team:
- JustinGuitar (legacy)
- Project:
- Intermediate Method (IM)
- Duration:
- 11:43
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