advanced guitar lessons

Advanced guitar lessons won’t be gotten to until after you’ve been playing the guitar a very long time. Musical instruments aren’t a thing that it takes ten minutes to learn. In fact, they might be one of the things which caused our ancestors to become far more intelligent. The human being doesn’t figure that they need to learn difficult things. We’re basically lazy, at heart, and probably would just sit there and do nothing if it was our own say in things. However, another thing that happens with humans is, we get bored.

If we see another human pick up a guitar and play things that are amazing, we don’t know that it really took them thirty years to get that good. Let’s say that you’ve been going to school since you were in Kindergarten, and now you’re in the twelfth grade. Would you have done that on your own, probably not? It’s only through study that you get good at things, and sometimes study that takes decades.

When you’re looking at the sheet music, you use the treble clef to read the notes. The clef. There are three kinds of clefs.


The treble clef, or G-Clef, is that curly thing that looks like an ampersand to the left of a staff on the sheet music. It points out the name and pitch of the notes on that line. The line that passes through the exact center of the encircled end of the curl of the clef is the G4 note.

The C-Clef is a strange looking one. It has two horizontal bars on the left and a thing that sort of looks like a backwards-capital-E to the right of it.

The C-Clef shows where the Middle C, or C4 is on the staff. The line that passes through the center of the clef is Middle-C.

The F-Clef looks like a backwards-C with a dot at the top of it with a colon to the right of it.

The F-Clef shows where the F3 note is on the staff. The line between the two dots is the F3 note.

The reason you have three different kinds of clefs is so you can write for different kinds of instruments. If they use a C-Clef, that’s for middle parts. An F-Clef is for low parts like the Tuba, and the G-Clef or treble clef, is for high parts or instruments like the flute.

Now that I’ve told you all that, know that as a guitar player you need not worry about any clef other than the treble clef, or G-Clef, generally.

Next, realize that these clefs can be placed anywhere, up-and-down, the sheet page. That defines that that particular line (which I just defined, such as the C4 with the C-Clef, etc.) is not fixed on the staff line. If you take one sheet music, the G-Clef might be down so that the curly-Q passes through the very bottom line. That would mean that the G line would be the bottom line, and you’d shift all other lines up or down accordingly.

At the beginning, do you think you can do that? Of course you can’t. At the beginning they will only tell you one clef, and they’ll pass very quickly by the fact that it might shift up and down like that because it’s too confusing to realize at the early stages of the game. However, I believe that a person should understand where they’re going, then rein back in.

 

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