From the course: Learning Music Notation
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Guitar part
- [Voiceover] Notating music for guitar covers a wide range of musical styles and notation types. It also needs to account for a wide level of reading proficiency as players of all levels do not necessarily read conventional music notation. So, let's take a look at creating guitar music using notation, tablature, guitar fretboards, and rhythmic notation. So, first of all, let me remind you that guitar is a transposing instrument. It sounds down an octave from where it's written. So, the range of guitar would go from the E, that's an octave and a six below middle C, up to roughly two octaves above middle C depending upon the number of frets on your guitar. That would be the sounding range. But the actual written range, would be all written in Treble Clef. And it would go from the E below middle C, up to the C that's three octaves above middle C. So, you can see that, if we didn't do this, we would have to write music for guitar on the Grand Staff, instead of just Treble Clef. So, some…
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