Music notation is written on five horizontal lines called the stave, or staff, depending on where in the world you live. Each line and each space of the stave represents one of the seven natural notes from the chromatic scale. To understand which note each line in space represents, we need to look at a really important symbol at the beginning of a piece of music called the treble clef, which is also known as the G clef. And that gives you a little clue as to where we're going with this. Now see how the treble clef spirals around the second line of the stage and in circles it it almost appears that the second line is caught in the crosshairs of the scope. What the G clef is indicating here is that the second line of the stave represents the natural load G. What this means of course, is that if you were to see a note represented here about the circle, on the second line of the stove, you would know to play the note G on your guitar.

Now that we've located G, we can find the other nodes of the state of two. Since we know that the natural nodes go from A to G and then start over from a again, we know that the space above g would represent the natural node. A. third line of the stave represents the note B. The third space of the stave is the note C. The fourth line is D, the fourth space is E, and the fifth line is F. The space above the fifth line of the stave is also used, and it represents the load ci that takes care of most of the lines and spaces of the state. To find the notes below the second line, we just work backwards from G. The first space of the state is the node F. The first line is E. The space directly below the stave represents the node D. Now we have all the natural notes on all the lines and spaces of the treble clef stave A great way to remember the loads that fall on the spaces within the stave is to recognize that they spell out the word face.

And to remember the names of the lines, we can use the acronym Every Good Boy does fine. Now we can turn any of the natural notes of the stave into a sharp or flat note by simply placing a sharp or flat sign in front of it. Let's say that we want to indicate the note F sharp on the state for example, what we would do is simply draw a sharp sign in front of the note that falls on a line or space representing the note F. Then we would note to play the note F sharp instead of F. If for argument's sake, we wanted to indicate a B flat note instead of a b note, we would follow the same principle, simply draw a flat sign next to any note that falls on the third line of the stave. And we'd know to play the note B flat instead of B. compare these two examples the first one shows the load D E and F, it sounds like this.

Now let's do almost the same thing but this time we're going to put a sharp sign in front of the F to make it an F sharp and see how it changes the way it sounds. Next, compare these two examples. Firstly, listen to the notes g A and B. Now if we put a flat sign in front of the note on the line, which represents B, we will hear a B flat instead. In the next video We're going to practice drawing the treble clef as well as the natural notes on the lines and spaces on the stave, and how to turn those natural notes into sharp and flat nodes.