If you refer to the supplemental content in the note section you will see that I have written out notes
below the staff and above the staff.
If you look at that below the staff we have got D, C, B, A and G.
You notice I am counting backwards in the musical alphabet and then going back up to G or really you are going down
but you are just starting over in that musical alphabet.
You will also notice that once you get below the staff there are lines added to keep your place.
If you are looking at the A there in that example you can see that you've added two lines and then you've put an A
over that second line, you've put a note overt that second line that's an A.
That A note would actually be this note.
A really common note that you play on the guitar that just happens to be below the staff.
That G would actually be this note.
Again, another really common note.
If you look at the second part of that example you see that I've outlined notes above the staff.
G, A, B, C and D.
I don't have tablature associated with this section but many times you will see tablature associated.
This is just an example to give you an idea how most notes look above and below the staff.
Beware of that when you are looking at tablature in this lesson set and in other lesson sets.
Next we are going to go over the basics of rhythm in standard musical notation
because the musical notation is the only way you are able to tell how things are played in time rhythmically.
Tablature shows you an order to play the notes
but they don't show you how to subdivide beats or make things sound musical at all.