Music scores are roughly divided into the following three types

Introduction to five-line notation, six-line notation, and simplified notation:

Standard music notation (i.e., five-line notation)

Music scores are written symbols on paper that represent the sounds of music. Guitarists are fortunate to have two complementary systems of notation to describe the notes they play; standard notation, the staff, and notation, the tablature.

Standard music notation, or staff notation, is the most commonly used music notation system for piano, violin and orchestral instruments. It consists of five lines and a symbol called the treble clef. The position of the note head on the staff determines its pitch (represented by a letter), and the shape of the note (note head, stem, and tail) determines the rhythm (sound length).

The composition of notes

The pitch of a note is determined by its position on the staff. Whether the note head is full or not indicates its sound length.

Whether the stem exists or not indicates the length of the sound. The presence or absence of a tail indicates how short the sound is. When more than one note in the same line has tails, these tails are replaced by beams, which are exactly the same length as the tails. This makes it easier to read music.

Symbol notation (i.e. six-line notation)

Symbol notation uses six lines, each line representing each string on the guitar. The top line represents the guitar's 1st string, and the bottom line represents the guitar's 6th string. Putting numbers on the line can represent the tone of a certain fret of a certain string, and the number 0 represents the open tone of a certain string. For example:

For guitarists, the obvious advantage of six-line notation over five-line notation is that it can tell you where to play a specified note correctly. For example: this note (high E) can be played in five different positions on the guitar: The form tells you where to change strings and when to switch positions, while staff notation cannot handle position switching like six-line notation.

Digital notation (i.e. simplified musical notation)

It mainly uses Arabic numerals to represent notes, which is simple and clear.

With the combination of the above three notations, you should have a very clear idea of ??how and where to look for notes on the guitar, as well as the length of those notes. All notation examples in this book will be written in five-line notation, simplified notation, and six-line notation.

Rhythm: Music has two main components: rhythm and pitch. Rhythm refers to how notes sound in time and relate to each other. Each note has a certain sound length relative to the music beat. Beat is the basic unit of music, also called beat. When you clap your feet to music (that is, when you tap your feet), you are moving to the beat.

Tapping your feet regularly in time with the music is a skill that should be developed. This will allow you to actually feel the beat, and your hands can be free to play on the guitar to the beat of your feet. This allows you to feel the relationship between the notes and the beat.

Beats are often repeated in "groups". In musical notation, we divide the music into these repetitive groups. The time occupied by a group is called a syllable (commonly known as a measure). The boundaries of each section are represented by vertical lines, which are called section lines.

The beat symbol at the beginning of the score indicates how many beats there are in each measure and what note counts as one beat. In this example, the music is in 4/4 time.

This means there are four beats in each measure, measured as quarter notes.

The quarter note is named after it occupies 1/4 of a measure in 4/4 time. 4/4 beat is widely used, so it is also called ordinary beat. Most rock and pop music are in 4/4 beat.

Note duration

The following are the basic note durations in 4/4 beats:

=whole note - a whole note in 4 beats occupies one measure or 4 beats

= half note - 2 beats A half note takes up half a measure or 2 beats. Two half notes occupy one measure, which is equivalent to the duration of one whole note.

=1/4 note - 1 beat, a 1/4 note occupies 1/4 measure or 1 beat.

=1/8 note - 1/2 beat. A 1/8 note occupies 1/8 measure or 1/2 beat. Two 1/8 notes are equivalent to the duration of one 1/4 note. Eight 1/8 notes make up one measure.

This is how to count the duration of each note:

In order to master rhythm well, you must know how to count beats. Try the exercise: Start tapping slowly with your feet. Keep a steady, pendulum-like rhythm so that the intervals between each beat are exactly the same. Count while tapping your feet, counting in 4/4 beats. After counting to 4, repeat, like this: 1-2-3-4, 1-2-3-4.

To ensure that your counting sounds are synchronized with the foot taps, make sure that the interval between 4 (the end of one syllable) and 1 (the beginning of the next syllable) is consistent with the interval between any two beats . In other words, there is no break between beat 4 of one measure and beat 1 of the next measure.

Other ways to represent rhythm

You can use dots, dashes, and rests to change the length of a note.

A dot increases the duration of a note by half.

A connecting line is a curve that connects two notes of the same pitch. The tie line instructs you to play only the first note, which lasts for the combined duration of the two notes.

The rest between notes is represented by a rest. Rests, like sounding notes, have lengths and lengths. A rest indicates a period of silence (no playing, no sustained note sound).

Pitch

The pitch of a note refers to the pitch of the note.

In the staff, pitches are represented by letters: A, B, C, D, E, F and G.

The pitch of a note is represented by the line or space on which the note head falls on the staff.

In simplified musical notation, pitches are represented by Arabic numerals: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7