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GUITAR
The name "guitar" comes from the ancient Sanskrit word for
"string" - "tar
A flat-bodied stringed instrument with a long fretted neck
and usually six strings played with a pick or with the fingers.
It is played by plucking the strings.
The main parts of a guitar are the body, the fretboard, the
headstock and the strings.
It is usually made from wood or plastic.
Their strings are made of steel or nylon.
Parts of Guitar
Body
The frets are the silver bars running across your fretboard
and they have a large amount of power over the main
sound of your songs.
FRETS
Headstock
Classical Guitar
- also known as concert guitar, classical
acoustic, nylon-string guitar, or Spanish guitar.
- It is an acoustical wooden guitar with strings made
of nylon, rather than the metal strings used
in acoustic and electric guitars.
Acoustic Guitar
A downstroke is where your strum moves down towards the floor and is
shown in tab by the symbol.
An upstroke is where your strum moves up towards the ceiling and is
represented by the symbol.
Once you are used to playing downstrokes and upstrokes you can try
alternate strumming.
when you play a downstroke your hand ends in the position to play an
upstroke.
Downstroke Upstroke
Guitar Notation
Standard notation is written on a set of five horizontal lines called
the staff:
Standard notation is very visual: the higher a note is on the staff, the
higher it will sound.
Guitar music is usually written using a treble clef, which looks like
this.
The purpose of a clef is to identify the names of the lines and spaces.
Each line or space will represent one letter of the musical alphabet, which
is the letters A through G.
Using the treble clef, the lines are (from the bottom up): E-G-B-D-F, which
you can remember using the mnemonic Every Good Boy Does Fine.
The spaces, from the bottom up, spell out the word F-A-C-E.
Combining these two, we can write the notes from E through F on the staff:
The head of a note is a roughly
circular shape:
If a note has ONLY a head, the head is always hollow (as shown), and the
note is called a whole note.
A stem can be added to a note. When a stem is used, the head can be
either hollow or solid:. Notes with stems and hollow heads are called half
notes; notes with stems and solid heads are called quarter notes.
Notes with one flag are called eighth notes.
We can keep adding flags to a note, getting sixteenth notes, thirty-
second notes, and so on:
To handle the ‘extra’ notes, we’ll use temporary extensions of the
staff called ledger lines, and keep going higher or lower as
needed: