Reading music - is it really difficult?

Like all burning questions, the answer to this is both “yes” and “no”. Guitar playing is what people these days call a “journey”. What that means is that you will have times when the job ahead is too hard, too tiring, too boring and too much. Then if you persist, you will be rewarded by a sudden insight or upgrading of physical skills. Anybody who has learnt touch typing knows what I’m talking about. So the process of giving life and meaning to the little dots on the page will be off-putting at first followed by a feeling of having learnt something very valuable. What you need to begin this process of learning to read music is a good, concise tutorial. Something that says stuff like, “our notes are displayed upon what is called a “staff.” This is a set of five horizontal lines and four spaces between each line. Don’t laugh, the spaces are important. It is where these notes are positioned in the staff, on which line or space they occupy, which determines what note you play. And here’s the beauty of it - the position will always be the same. If you want the note sounded by the open B string, for example, it will always occupy the place on the staff. Once you know where it is you will always know where it is.” Good basic info. David Hodge is the author of this tutorial, and it is called, A Guide To Reading Musical Notation

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