Read Sheet Music in 7 MINUTES! (guitar)

hi so to address the elephant in the room oh thanks so do you really need to read sheet music no like paul mccartney couldn't and he did okay oh yeah thanks yeah sure um no problem paul but the thing is it's not actually as hard as it looks because usually it doesn't actually look like this looks more like this and if it does look like that well there are always other songs plus even just understanding how to read this will really help you communicate music with non-guitarists to help you make sense of music theory and most importantly it'll make you better than paul mccartney and the best part it'll only take a few minutes so yeah oh yeah for sure what oh yeah sure i'm in you know can i come um sure paul oh yeah why not tap so what's cool about sheet music guitar is it's uh super complicated oh yeah so about 600 years ago some german dudes were jamming on their loots and were like this is hot we should make like sheets music just was a loot yeah brozza and then they made loot tablature which is the basis for guitar tablature and guitar tab is a lot easier to read but it also misses a lot of the detail that standard notation covers which is why it's good to know both staff notation so standard notation is also called staff notation because it's notated on a staff wow this is a staff it's a blank canvas for musicians to write on and those are bar lines and between them are bars or measures every single one represents the same amount of time and they're used to help make the song easier to read you know how phone numbers are broken up into sections so they're easier to look at like 867 5309 oh yeah i love that song okay bars sort of have the same effect rhythm so rhythm is the heart of music it's what makes you move so there are four main note values that you should be familiar with in american it's a whole note a half note a quarter note and an eighth note so next would be a 16th note and you can go all the way up to 256th note it's pretty intuitive or in britain you have a semi-brief a minim a crotchet and a quaver so the 16th note is called a semiquaver which of course makes this one a demi-semi-hammy dummy semiquaver right paul um you know yeah also if you see a dot beside a note it increases the note's length by half of its original value so for example this half note with a dot becomes three beats and then to tell you how many notes go into a bar you have what's called a time signature that's these two numbers at the start of the staff the bottom one is basically a numeric representation of the note values so a two is a half note a four is a quarter note and an eight is an eighth note and it can go all the way up to 256 but usually it won't and then the top number tells you how many of those note values you can fit in a bar so two four means you can fit two quarter notes three four means you can fit three four four means you can fit four and four four is also called common time because it's the most common time which is great because it's also the most straightforward a whole note lasts a whole bar a half note half a bar a quarter a quarter whereas with three four time a quarter note lasts one third of a bar so it's a third note no it's a quarter note that lasts a third that's why we call it a crotchet i mean damn you samia daby crash guys guys let's take a rest i'll explain every note value has a matching rest value they work the same way as notes but instead of playing you don't that said if a note comes up before a rest you don't let it linger through you have to mute it melody so if rhythm makes you move melody makes you think and feel that's a treble clef it's also called a g-clef do you know why like like you know a g for guitar no it's because it looks like a g don't you see it yeah no not quite but it's also because the swirly's part is around the second line which represents the note g um what every line and every space on the staff represent a note and in english each note is represented by one of the first seven letters of the alphabet so which note is represented by which line or space on the staff is dependent on the clef and because guitar uses the g-clef remember we know that the g is here on the second line from there we can logically figure out what each space and line represents by going through the alphabet all right yeah that's a h no because the musical alphabet consists of only seven letters once you get to the g you go back to the a so going up from g you got a b c d e f and working backwards from g you get f and e that makes sense right yeah yeah yeah nice so what note is that i hate shall i believe no but it is hard to tell because it's hard to remember nine positions so what helps is to remember the lines and the spaces separately the lines give you e g b d f every good boy deserves fudge fudge no paul good boys deserve fudge oh here you go paul yes look at your face face those are the notes in the spaces you know ledger lines so you might notice that guitars can actually play more than nine notes which means that the staff actually only spans from this e to this f uh oh that's why we have ledger lines oh yes of course ledger lines are temporary lines you can use to indicate how far above or below the staff a notice so one below gives you a c two an a three and f and the space below that is the low e and it works the same way above the staff just the other way but with all these lines now we have four e's they are all the same note but they're also different pitches you can't use them interchangeably because that would sound like this [Applause] and on the note of pitches you know even though guitar uses the treble clef it's actually played an octave lower that won't matter for now but it is worth knowing sharps and flats now you might remember from my fretboard video in music you have sharps and flats on a piano those are the black keys or they're just the notes that fall between all the natural notes except for e and f and b and c say it with me b because everything's fudge that's right paul um there are two ways that sharps and flats are represented in standard notation either you stick a sharp beside the clef and everything on the line or space that the sharp is on is played as a sharp you can also do that with flats and then those sharps or flats are what's called the key signature because making a note sharp or flat for an entire song changes the key but that's for another time but if you don't want to change the whole key of the song but you still want a sharp or flat you just stick it beside the note that you want to be a sharper flat and that's called an accidental and now a lightning round of other symbols and terms a tempo heading tells you how quickly to play in italian it's also sometimes in the composer's native language dynamic markings tell you how loud to play also in italian basically just grab one of these and you'll you'll be all right practice so by now with enough time you should be able to work your way through any piece of music so let's do it so notice beside the treble clef there's a sharp on the f which means everything on the space of the f will be a sharp um yeah there's nothing on that line whatever so remember every good point deserves fudging and face so you ready g g d d e e e e d c c b b a a g yeah and that's it so basically now that you have your new skill the best way to practice it and really hone it is to basically do what we just did work through easy songs and you know just go at a slow pace sound it out and go back over it until it feels more natural and for rhythm don't worry about the placement the notes at first just set a metronome to around 60 bpm or largo and clap along to it and before you know it it'll be second [Music] i don't have nature answer just i want you to go

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Length: 8min 9sec (489 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 15 2021