why do musical notes go E B G C A E (yknow what I mean)?

Question

I started learning it all but its all a miystery I don't even know what its all about. I'm trying to learn the guitar but this guy says tat we use for first 6 letters of the alpherbet but we have 2 E's and as far as i can tell its all in a ****** up order? is our current musical noting system the only one we have? Is there a better way of learning and reading music? Is it like VHS and were stuck with it now?

Answer 1

We use the first seven letters of the alphabet because in a scale there are eight notes, including the octave. A C major scale would have the notes: C D E F G A B C. Having seven notes makes perfect mathematical sense. The octaves sound very similar because of the waves that they resonate. An octave higher vibrates two times as fast, an octave lower half as fast, etc. The order of the notes is also okay, as in music you would switch between different keys, and the best way to represent this would be to have a constant and consistent way of reading those notes.

I can only tell you that with time the notation system of music will become second nature. I look at sheet music and not only know what the note names are, but how the whole piece will sound. Music is a language of its own; to say that it is wrong is like saying that people in France are wrong to be speaking French instead of English. Music can be confusing at first, but stick with it and it will become easier. Rock on.

Answer 2

http://www.jamplay.com/guitar
http://www.billbrutal.com
http://www.zento.com/guitar/theory/major-scale.ktml
guitarnoise.com
http://www.guitarpeople.com/index2.asp
http:flatpickpost.blogspot.com/
http://www.stringdancer.com (this site has a free electronic tuner in the upper right hand corner)
http://www.cyberfret.com/chords/beginnin
These are just a few of the sites that you could check out to maybe get a better understanding of what guitar music is all about. As for the alphabet there are only six the you have to know, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and that's it, the thing is that these notes are all over the guitar theirs a C in the third fret and then theirs one in the first, one's a bass, and the other is the higher C etc, they are all over the guitar, and the sheet music will tell you which one they want, sometimes there's a circle around a number indicating what string that they want that note on. As for the two E's on the guitar that's not the same as reading music, that's the name of the strings, there's a bass E the sixth, and then there's the first string that's E (both are opened) you just have to learn how to read which one that the music wants by recognizing what it looks like on sheet paper. Once you get the hang of it it will all become clearer and start to come together.

Answer 3

What you have here is a slight alternate tuning to the standard guitar. The open strings are usually, from the lowest in pitch to the highest, E A D G B E.

We may be able to blame the original string tunings on the Russian gypsies who took the guitar to Spain centuries ago. Many guitarists today retune the strings to suit their whim while some players stay in the traditional mode.

Sometimes I drop the low E string to a D--called "Dropped-D" to play certain songs, but I normally stay in standard tuning.

Regardless how disorganized and complex you think a guitar is tuned you have three choices: 1. Tune it the way you want. 2. Learn chords in the standard tuning mode, 3. Don't play the guitar.

Answer 4

firstly its not "eats" fruit its every good boy "deserves" fruit =] just clearing that up. and secondly its related to the lines on the music manuscript. F.A.C.E is between the lines and E.G.B.D.F is on the lines. that's how when people who play an instrument know which note to play, because they see where the notes sitting and if its sitting on the top line the play a high F or if its sitting between the two bottom lines they play a low F or maybe on the second line down, which tells them to play a D The only time its different is when you have percussion music, usually the base drum is between the bottom two lines and the snare drum between the top middle lines the tambourine is the same as the base but the note is a star not a circle. the high hat is a cross above the top line and they just have a different place for each percussion instrument. lol I could go on for ages, but you only asked for two things so... I won't bore you. ciao n hope I helped.

Answer 5

Keeeeeeep studying and learn to read and it will all become clear. Right now I can see that it is not clear for you.
The natural notes are in order: abcdefg.
The "current" notation system has been developed and grown over many centuries. It is excellent and practical. Silly attempts at notation other than the one we now use cause confusion and error- in particular modern guitar tabs. These are by and large pathetic attempts to make it "easier" when in fact they just make it harder.

Answer 6

Don't give up so easy. Music is not like buying a car. The efforts you put into your music can and has given purpose to many many lives out there. How can you expect something so powerful, to be easy? I guess your young, so look, if you want to be a hack, take all the short-cuts and there are plenty of them out there. But if you really want to open up the world of music, learn how to " speak the language". It's easy, just give yourself a chance to learn it!!!

Answer 7

yea. you dont wana see the other systems.

so be gratefull.