There are some extra notes for you to learn which will give you no trouble now that you have mastered the notes within the stave.? In order to cover the full range of musical sounds it is often necessary to write notes above and below the stave.? You will see that these extra notes fall in sequence with the notes you have already learned.

This lower C is played on the 5th string - 3rd fret.

The D is the 4th string played open.

And the high G is played on the 1st string - 3rd fret

The first note, C, is called middle C and you will remember we indicated it's position on a keyboard.? This note is written on an extra, short line below the stave.? This line is called a ledger line and additional ledger lines can be added even lower.? In fact the open 6th string, which is E, is quite a bit lower, but we will cover that later.?

You have already identified one note named C on your stave.? It is situated in the 3rd space up.? Middle C is therefore 8 notes lower than this,? A range of 8 notes in sequence, starting and finishing with the same note name is called an OCTAVE.?

The next new note to learn is D, one OCTAVE or 8 notes lower than the D you have already learned, situated on the 4th line.?

The next new note to learn is G, one OCTAVE or 8 notes higher in? sound than the G situated on the 2nd line.?

So let's now revise all the notes you have learned.? They are shown here in alphabetic order starting with C.

Remember that the higher a note is written on the stave, the higher it sounds.?

It is particularly important for you to memorize the position of each note on the stave before you proceed.? The better you understand this the quicker you will be able to recognize them resulting in much faster progress later.? So spend some time now going over what you have learned until you are confident with the note names.