The standard notes on a six stringed guitar are easy to remember if you think of a piano keyboard. Find middle C and go to the second E note below it. This is the low E on a guitar’s sixth string. The next A-note (going up) on the piano keyboard is the A-note that the guitar is tuned to in standard tuning. Continue to the right hand side and the next D note on the piano is the guitar’s D-note and so on up G, B to high E. That is, the E-note just above middle C on the piano is the high E on a guitar.

If you are not familiar with a keyboard or piano, then they can be described like this: – e is the first string (skinniest string-highest pitch), B is the 2nd string, G is the third string, D is the fourth string, A is the fifth string, and E is the sixth string, (thickest and lowest in pitch).

These standard notes are written as music on a set of five lines called a staff, with a treble clef at the beginning. Each line and space represents one note of the musical alphabet; A through to G. Starting from the bottom line and going up on the lines only, the notes are E, G, B, D, F. Most people remember them by saying, “Every Good Boy Does Fine.”

Also starting from the bottom the spaces are similarly identified as F, A, C, E, which is easily remembered because it spells face. It is the same for the piano, only that also has another staff for the left hand printed underneath the right hand one.

Each of the standard music notes will not be represented by a letter, of course, but by notes of various shapes that depict how long the note is to be held for. A single hollow oval with no stem is called a whole note, while a hollow note with a stem is a half note. If the oval part is solid and it has a stem it is a quarter note.

Each note with a stem can also have a flag on the stem to depict whether they are eighth notes, sixteenth notes and so on. Each note has a rest that belongs to it, depicted by a specific shape so that we know when to play a note and when there should be a pause in the music.

If we need to write or play more than the eleven notes available on those eleven lines and spaces we can add extra, shorter lines either above or below the staff. They are called ledger lines and the letters of the notes are simply repeated, either an octave or two higher or lower.

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