How do you read guitar sheet music?

how do you know were the notes are on the staff?


How do you read guitar sheet music?
Now that's a complicated question.





Notes on a staff are a way of representing what you will hear if you play them. They don't apply to a particular instrument. So, within reason, any instrument that understands ';the treble clef'; (one of a small number of signs at the front of each stave), can play that music and it will sound the same. It does not relate to the instrument playing the music, and describes what the notes must sound like, not how to play them. So music has fingering on, specific to the instrument - for example if you buy guitar music, it will often have left hand fingering on.


Tab is specific to guitar and tells you where to place your fingers, but it has horrible limitations - no other instrument can read your music, and it takes no account of the fact that the guitar can play the same note in several places.





Your best bet is to buy a classical guitar book such as Noad's Solo Guitar Playing Volume 1 (even if that's not your style of playing), and he'll take you through notation step by step.





People who advocate tab are missing a lot. Learning to read music is like learning to read English - it takes time. But once learned, it is so fast, so automatic, so effortless that you're not even aware you're decoding the symbols. Music notation is very logical and easy, just give yourself the time to let your brain learn to read for you subconsciously, rather than consciously.





Guitarists are reckoned to be the worlds worst notation readers, and that's a shame - once you learn notation, a whole new world of music opens up.How do you read guitar sheet music?
I dont know how to read sheet music, but guitar tablature is very simple and most guitarists use it. It has 6 lines that represent the strings, then numbers on the lines that represent what fret to play the notes or chords on. You play just like you read left to right.