For your first piece of real music it is not necessary for you to know the timing.? If you recognize the tune you will be able to put your own timing to it and so much the better but for now you can practice the notes with any timing just as long as you practice naming and locating the notes correctly. A word of encouragement.? In all pieces of music some note sequences repeat themselves, so by learning only one part of a piece you have automatically learned another.? This makes learning any piece of music a lot? easier than you might have imagined.
There are only 6 notes to learn in this piece and their position on your fret board is illustrated below:
You can tell at a glance if the note after the one you are playing is written higher or lower and this indicates the direction your finger must go to play the next note.? When the note is higher, move to the higher strings and when it is lower, move to the lower strings.?
For example, the 6th note of this piece, the beginning of the word Swanee, is played with finger 3, 5th string 3rd fret, which is middle C.? Moving to the 7th note played with finger 1, 2nd string, 1st fret, which is top C.
