sharuhen's guitar method grade 1

Rudiments of Music The Staff - music is written on a staff that has five lines and four spaces.

The letter names of the lines are E, G, B, D, F. It's easily remembered by the sentence:

Every Good Boy Does Fine

E

G

B

D

F

The letter names of the spaces from the bottom up spell FACE.

F

A

C

E

It's very important to remember the names of the lines and spaces of the staff.

The Staff is divided into measures by bar lines. Measure

Measure

Measure

Measure

Double bars mark the end of the section of

G Clef

Bar Line

Bar Line

Bar Line

strain of music

This is the G clef or treble clef. (All guitar music is written in this clef) The second line of the G clef is know as the G line, many people call it the G clef.