Your instrument

Beginner

1. ▤Lesson

   The Fingerboard: Strings, Frets and Positions

   A keyboard is a line and a fingerboard is a grid — what strings and frets are, and why the same note sits in several places at once.

2. ▤Lesson

   Open Strings on the Staff: Where Your Instrument Meets the Page

   The handful of notes you never have to finger, where each one sits on the staff, and why printed guitar music is written an octave above what it sounds.

3. ▤Lesson

   Range and Tessitura: What an Instrument Can Play, and Where It Lives

   The difference between every note an instrument can produce and the stretch where it actually sounds like itself — and why two clefs are named after it.

4. ▶Exercise

   Find the note

   A note is named on screen, then you find it on your own instrument — the map every player needs.