How To Read Guitar Sheet Music - Guitar Lessons

[jacobtheguitarfreak]

If you are looking for actual instruction in reading sheet music for guitar specifically, check out Fred Hamilton's book Melodic Studies & Composition for Guitar: A Reading Workout for the Serious Musician. Also check out Frederick M. Noad's book Solo Guitar Playing. Both start you off easy and help you get aquainted with reading for different areas of the neck.

[iRant4u]

Sheet music for guitar just seems to difficult to spot read while playing... Way to many frets and strings (120+ depending on how many frets you have). Even though the first octave only goes to the twelfth fret, that is still a lot of frets O_O. I prefer tab, but that makes it annoying to play any other kind of music that I can only find sheet music for... So maybe I should learn sheet so I could convert it to tab and learn it that way haha

[Kingpin0072001uk]

@iRant4u its easy with a lil dedication, start out simple. before you know it you can whizz along with sheet notation, takes a couple of years of regular playing to read "really" well though

[jacobtheguitarfreak]

@iRant4u Thinking of how many frets you have overcomplicates it. Learn the notes on the staff and learn the notes on the guitar, then get Frederick Noad's book "Solo Guitar Playing" and/or Fred Hamilton's book "Melodic Studies & Composition for Guitar: A Reading Workout for the Serious Musician". Noad's book takes you one position at a time, offering lots of exercises that get progressively more difficult. Hamilton's book will you take the next step further.

[jamirosmajicrocks]

i play guitar for almost 3 years and im pretty good,

 and im in a special music class in school, but im hiding the fact that i cant read music even tough we kinda learned it for almost three years now!

i hope this video will set things straight...

[TVDeathWish]

I understand the notes but didn't understand how you can just automatically understood where it was on the guitar neck...

[EasyExpertVillage]

those line are named something. this is what it could look like if they were people

G:Hi, what's your name

F: F

G:what does that mean

F: I don't know. some guy said to me years ago and you shall be called F. then the guy died.

[teengirlt]

LOWER NOTES: notes before the middle c (from the piano) FIRST NOTES: first c,d,e,f,g,a,b SECOND NOTES: (after the previous b) second c,d,e,f,g,a,b THIRD NOTES: (after the previous second b) third c,d,e,f,g,a,b N:notes Second step: N on the guitar fretboard first e string : 2nd N third N ... if continue go back to1th N b string : 1th N 2nd N... g string: 1th N 2nd N.... d string:1th N 2nd N ...

a string:lower N 1th N...

last e string:lower N 1th N ...

[teengirlt]

LOWER NOTES: notes before the middle c (from the piano) FIRST NOTES: first c,d,e,f,g,a,b SECOND NOTES: (after the previous b) second c,d,e,f,g,a,b THIRD NOTES: (after the previous second b) third c,d,e,f,g,a,b N:notes Second step: N on the guitar fretboard first e string : 2nd N third N ... if continue go back to 1th n b string : 1th N 2nd N... g string: 1th N 2nd N.... d string:1th N 2nd N ...

a string:lower N 1th N...

last e string:lower N 1th N ...

[daberko120ch]

FACE... Man! That is a much easier method than: Funny Asian Children Excersize, this helps me much more!

[iseestars4689]

i learned every good boy deserves fudge xD

[Taylormade169]

@MrThisotherguy ...

[D0llton]

It doesnt matter what string, although different strings have different timbres (sounds) on individual notes. Just play the right note and your fine usually.

[Rockyroopam]

@MrThisotherguy look at the clef, if its a treble clef, i would avoid the bottom 2 strings usually; unless the notes are way below the lines

[EbonymemeSharie]

It seemed like he was mumbling the whole time. Speak clearly please!

[ohhRuthii]

-____- this doesn't help at all.

no offense.

[bossou5555]

the lower part of the sheet music is the low e

[evelchef2]

@MrThisotherguy play chords! lol

[TOUGHxBASTURD]

@evelchef2 i dont know if you play guitar but this and chords are pretty different witch i why im failing guitar class

[xXxEHABISAACxXx]

So FACE EGBDF EFGABCDEF ? Lol That's it O.O?

[ZuZaarr]

@MrThisotherguy you gotta figure it out, :p if it doesnt sound right, then you maybe on the wrong string

[firax456]

Every Girl Blows Dick Fully

[saadsnake6]

i will stick with tabs

[howtoreadmusic]

Thanks for the great EGBDF info! I learned it as "Deserves Fudge". Good stuff!

[hizokuto]

This only teaches you how to read sheet music, but not play it.

To play it you have to learn the corresponding notes on the fretboard.

For example the E in FACE, that last note in the space, can be played

on the 6th open string. It can also be played on the 5th string/5th fret. The same note can be played in many places on the fretboard. Also, don't confuse the lines with the strings. This isn't guitar tabs: the 5 lines don't correspond to 5 strings. They correspond to notes.

[ultimage7]

THANKS :D

[alien001Productions]

this teaches me nothing i havent already known

[alien001Productions]

this teaches me nothing i havent already known

[Hacker2090]

@MinnesotaRejects they are 5 lines only :-S ?

[Pierceher]

@KalvinCoon hard as hell at the beginning, im still learning it and ive been going for it for around 2 weeks..

first part of the equation is learning every note on the fretboard.. that means not only knowing the order or logically finding them , but cold finding.. when you hear g# you should be able to "see" all the g#s on the fretboard and hopefully play them :P

hard as hell but practice makes perfect and I can only imagine how rewarding it will be when im done :P

have fun :)

[Transane]

based on what scale its in you choose which strings to play.

[Jeremy124AD]

y cant i find a video on wat string u hit when a note is on the staff fuk!

[VALKRYE2009]

so how do i know that i'm supposed to play in that octave. four dang octaves do i just pick one lol.

[TheSleepyGene]

i like how so many people get on a video on how to read SHEET MUSIC and dont know any notes.

[MrNikcccc]

@TheSleepyGene lol thats me

[TheSleepyGene]

@MrNikcccc haha just remeber that the notes go ABCDEFGHIJKYOURFUCKED

[MrNikcccc]

@TheSleepyGene k thanks

[samrebardi]

fuck this shiz, tabs

[AcoustikGeeMusic]

lol shit music (i know i'm immature) :)

[divine0enigma]

Agreed, still trying to figure out where it indicates the octave its played in.

[yadrition]

i already know everything about reading sheet music since i did piano, and how to play it on guitar but i didnt know if sheet music existed in guitar (except for classical) anyone please tell me some websites where i can play guitar with sheet music?

[YadiCruzado]

Every Gay Buttler Deserves Fags 

[NRGMetal]

@kkaileynnicolehhinkl

Or you could just know your alphabet and know that it goes ABCDEFGA

[RDdaNINJA]

But I dont know how to match the notes up on the guitar

[kbergeronjr]

E F F# G Ab A Bb C Db D Eb E is the the sequence of the notes going down the frets, it is the same for every single note. Hope this helps

[tannapitbull]

just dont play

[MetaLMasteR3022]

GUYS!!!!!!! you can play does notes wherever you want on the guitar but it has to be the same notes!!!!!!! like for EXAMPLE: if it tells you to play the notes E, F, G you can play does notes in the E string so it will be: OPEN, 1 fret, and 3 fret. but you can play it in any string. like you can play the E on the A string. the F one the D string. and G on the G string. so it will be A string 7 fret. D string 3 fret. G string open. I hope this helps!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[casey19971]

@MetaLMasteR3022 or u could play it all on the A string. 5th fret. 8th fret. 10th fret

[cherrycoke119]

@MrThisotherguy good question, hes naming notes not strings... just learn the notes and youll be fine

[BunnyLuverxD]

But iw anted to kno the string D:

[iRant4u]

@MrThisotherguy ***I'm not 100% sure about this but I think this is right*** Well you have to learn the letters (which is a bitch). Different letters are different frets on different strings and can be represented by sheet music. Like the F he showered was a whole note F (an F that lasts for one full note) and it would represent any regular F on a guitar (as in not like an F sharp) because an F is the same on the D string 3rd fret as it is on the A string 8th fret =) Hope I got it right.

[charlestheguitarist1]

wannabe andrew wasson!

[evelchef2]

a good way to remember the strings 6 to 1 E A D G B E Eddy Ate Dynimite Good Bye Eddy

[dubickisbro]

@evelchef2 Every Able Dad Gets Boned Excessively

[cdog775]

e g b d f those are the lines of the treble clef. f a c e those sound like the spaces to me.

[ryan9312]

dammit i know how to read music, thats easy. what no one shows me is how to easily interpret the music into whatever fret positions. its really frustrating

[smoothistkid12]

i gota question when you write music how do you know what fret to play it on i

[rickyjshiznit]

@smoothistkid12 you dont. you know what note to play. learn the notes before you try to learn hwo to play sheet music.

[comicreaper]

@chichoguitar the only thing im still figuring out is how to know which F or which G to play so far im guessing its whatever is closest to the other notes.

[jacobaaron18]

im still confused cuz you can play a F on the first note of the low E string too so?!?!

[hecknot14]

that was exacly wat i thought

[LanDnalyaW]

@jacobaaron18 VERY TRUE, but that is a lower F

it would be read below the lowest line of the five... which he did not go over

this was a great video to get started with though

[ClueLou]

I know how to read sheet music, but when it comes to reading about a guitar book, it's like reading hieroglyphics..

[clifgreen3]

@ClueLou no its not, hieroglyphics are much easier :) jk lol

[idonotcair]

well thats easy to remerber if ya learn were f an f sharp and stuff

[LostHero96]

How do you know what is the F note and stuff on the frets?

[elliepetz]

yeh, me too, how do you know what strings you play?

[metlrulz]

How cool. The notes repeat

[BreakingDawnEdward]

but how do you tell what string to play?

[kratex1]

@BreakingDawnEdward The intricate symbol you see at the beginning of the Sheet. For example, The symbol that looks sorta like this ( & ).

[MatinoAdeAit]

@BreakingDawnEdward You learn what note corresponds to what fret on what string.

[DavyDave1313]

@BreakingDawnEdward

each string played open is a note - EADGBE - and every fret you move up is an octave higher - 1 fret on E string makes it E sharp. Knowing these 2 concepts while having a well rounded knowledge of musical scales, you can practically play any piece of music ANYWHERE on the guitar, it just depends on what feels more natural to you. After a while of experimenting you should find your 'groove'. If not, then use guitar tabs, which is like a schematic of where to put your hand.

[peroslowned]

@BreakingDawnEdward

you can play whatever string you like...

[charlestheguitarist1]

@peroslowned well if the correct octave of note is on the string :)

[Fuelsterister]

@BreakingDawnEdward doesn't matter, just the note has to be in the same octave on the guitar as on the sheet

[rockinman1996]

@BreakingDawnEdward u find out by playing the chord by which the note represents. if ur to lazy to do that just use tabs even tho reading music is better

[lamp666]

@BreakingDawnEdward it doesnt matter, if you know the fretboard you can play any F, and find which octave to play it in

[krazskater]

@BreakingDawnEdward , ur not supposed to play strings ur suppost to play the chords

[SleepingBearFilms]

@BreakingDawnEdward

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[fishguru73]

@BreakingDawnEdward Most instruments have higher and lower octaves and the notation for a low F is represented by added lines beneath the clef and a higher octave of the same note would be represented above the lines.

[GoldenWolf2456]

@fishguru73

you either play guitar or another instrument because this is exactly wat i would had said in this situation.

[fishguru73]

@GoldenWolf2456 I do play guitar but Hizokuto gave a better explanation than I did because the octave of a note can also be found within the staff.

[JustJessiexo]

@BreakingDawnEdward im with ya, thats the only thing i dont understand..

[savvyandskye]

@BreakingDawnEdward You can play the same note many different ways on different strings. But if the note is higher up on the musical staff, it will probably be on a higher string.

[iWearVans97]

@BreakingDawnEdward you choose based on the octave

[KINGDOMheartsROBOT]

wow nice im subbing