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Christmas Sheet Music: Learn To Play Silent Night With Guitar Tablature 0

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Jennib And Friends

You can learn to play the popular Christmas song Silent Night on your guitar even if you don’t master sheet music. You will use guitar tablature that will show you where to put your fingers!


What is guitar tablature!


It is a way of showing you how to play a melody on your guitar without using sheet music notation. Instead you will use digits indicating the strings to play and frets to use. Ordinary guitar tab notation uses a staff with six lines representing the six strings.


In this guitar lesson you will only use digits. I have found that staff notation can be distorted on article sites so the following notation is safer. You will find ordinary guitar tablature notation on my site capotastomusic.


As mentioned the Christmas carol Silent Night is a popular song and you will find Christmas sheet music for this song and other carols all over the internet. It’s harder to find easy guitar tab notation for these type of songs. We will first take a look at the modern English lyrics of the first verse.


Silent night, Holy night

All is calm, all is bright

Round yon virgin Mother and Child

Holy infant so tender and mild


You will now learn the melody on your guitar one line at a time with the help of guitar tablature. Let’s start:


Silent night, Holy night


0/3 2/3 0/3 2/4 0/3 2/3 0/3 2/4


0/3 means that you play the third string without pressing down a fret. 2/3 tells you to press down the second fret on the third string. In other words, the digit before the slash indicates the fret to press down and the one to the right of the slash tells you which string to play.


Let’s continue with your guitar tablature melody:


All is calm, all is bright


3/2 3/2 0/2 1/2 1/2 0/3


Which left hand fingers should you use?

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Ukulele Chords: Learn To Play White Christmas 26

Posted on December 12, 2010 by Jennib And Friends

In this ukulele lesson you will learn to read easy tab notation. Even if you cannot read sheet music you will be able to read ukulele chords and melodies with this type of tabs. We will use the Christmas song White Christmas as a learning tool.


In sheet music you will find notes placed in a staff with five lines. The placement of the notes in the staff determines which note it is. However, the sheet music notation does not tell you how to play the note on your instrument, in this case, your ukulele. You will have to learn this by yourself.


Tablature notation, on the other hand, tells you how to place your fingers to play a melody or something else. Ukulele tabs show which frets to press down and which strings to play. As soon as you understand the system you can use it to play melodies and chords on your uke.


You can find a few different types of tablature notation on the Internet. In this lesson you will learn a form of ukulele tabs with numbers telling you which fret and string to play.


I suppose that you have tuned your ukulele in C. This means that you first string, that is the bottom string when you play, is tuned to an A, the second string is an E, the third string a C and the fourth string a G.


In the ukulele tab notation we will use all frets you are to press down on your ukulele is shown by two numbers. The first number tells you which fret to press down, the second number what string to play. Here is an example:


12 01


The first number pair tells you to press down the first fret on the second string. The second pair means that you shall play the first string without pressing down a fret. This is called to play an open string.


It is time to take a closer look at the song we will use to learn tab notation. I will write down the lyrics, one line at a time, and the ukulele chords you can use in the key of

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Standard Notation for The Guitar 0

Posted on February 27, 2010 by Jennib And Friends

Guitar tablature is fine, as long as we have music written that way. But if we want to read from “ordinary” scores or want to understand the rhythmic values of the notes, we have to learn how to read standard notation. This will be very important if we want to arrange our own guitar music. And we also have to understand a little bit of music theory: how scales are made and formed. We’ll also master the advanced technique of playing more than one melody part at the same time an integral part of classical guitar technique.

“Standard music notation” is more common. Believe it or not, notation is not hard to learn,and once mastered it will speed your learning of new music. Any system that has survived for centuries and is used to record all types of music must be a valuable one to learn!

music is written in standard notation for the guitar. We learn about the musical staff and how it differs from the one used for tablature. We see how notes are written on the staff and also above and below it, and we relate this to rising and falling pitch.Tones and half tones are discussed and related to the frets of the guitar. Then we put theory into practice and start actually playing from notation, with easy examples of notes on each string.

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