Basic Finger Exercise and Staff Notation Introduction

Basic finger exercise

Finger exercise is very essential for build coordination between right and left hand.

Proper fingering and picking and controlled on playing is very vital.

Practice the finger exercise below

STRING     5   4    4   4    3   3   2   2   2    1   1    1

FRET         3   0   2   3    0   2   0   1   3    0   1    3 

FINGER    3   0   2  3    0   2   0   1   3    0    1    3

Direction

Read this exercise vertically and play this forward and backward. Place your finger in the middle of the fret for Clear sound and Play this with alternative picking that means play down and up strokes. alternatively, it is very vital for fast playing in future,

although a little difficult at first but daily practice makes you perfect  and give you total control needed for play the guitar effectively.

Always practice with an even steady rhythm and not try to play fast the main target is control on playing.

When you achieve total control on this exercise then try to speedup gradually. Do practice this exercise until you have total control on the fingers and can be played without hesitation and both hand coordination will be perfect.

Here I not given the names of the notes I will introduce the notes on staff notation with proper way.

How to Read Music

Music written on a staff  which have 5 horizontal line and the gap between two lines called space.

The lines comes from down  that means first line comes from down to up. Below the first line called

bottom of the stave line and similarly on the above of the fifth line called top of the stave line.

There are also have line on above of top and below of the bottom called ledger line

This lines and spaces called stave or staff

Image of lines and spaces on the staff

Musical notes are written on this lines and spaces each line and space of the stave has different

alphabetical name called notes. musical alphabet have 7 letter A B C D E F G. Music is read from left to right just like a read a book.

Name of the notes on 5 horizontal lines and bottom of the stave with string fret finger number

 Note on bottom of The Stave   D
Note on first Line                    E

Note on second Line              G

Note on third Line                 B

Note on fourth Line              D

Note on fifth Line                F 

Notes on bottom and lines

         

Names of the notes on 4 spaces and top of the stave

Note on first Space             F

Note on second Space        A

Note on third Space           C

Note on fourth Space        E
Note on top of  the stave   G  

Notes on spaces and top of the stave

Memorize these note names and their playing position. When the notation write 
then the note name and playing position will not be written, you have to identify 
the note only by their placement on the stave.
The first three fret of guitar called nut position and these notes are written in nut position.
These same notes can be played also in others position that will be explain later.