guitar THEORY
Music is a language with an alphabet of 7 letters (A-G) and the lines and spaces (the staff) you see above is a seemingly cryptic system where the placement of a circle represents a particular letter and the pitch of the note. The student needs to memorize the lines and spaces on paper and where those notes are, on their instrument. The TAB line in the illustration above represents the 6 strings on the guitar and the number represents the fret number (not finger number) on the guitar.