Week 3 · 12 min

Keep your place at sight

By the end, you can locate the rest and next string before playing them.

Start at the circled note · Full tablature

Before this lesson

Play both bars and count the rest without losing your place.

3 min · 48 bpm · 1 note per click

Check for · 2 bars at 52 BPM — All eight beats pass once and the rest keeps its place.

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Bar two starts on open string 2. Beat two is silent.

Find the held note, then read straight through both bars.

3 min · 44 bpm · 1 note per click

Check for · 2 bars at 52 BPM — All eight beats pass once and the rest keeps its place.

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The opening note of bar two lasts two clicks. The rest takes beat three.

Read miniature 3 for the first time and keep counting through the rest.

3 min · 40 bpm · 1 note per click

Check for · 2 bars at 48 BPM — All eight beats pass once and the rest keeps its place.

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Locate strings 3 and 2 before starting. The final bar combines a rest, two eighths and a final quarter.

Repeat the same miniature and locate string 3 during the rest.

3 min · 44 bpm · 1 note per click

Check for · 2 bars at 52 BPM — after the rest in bar 2, string 3 sounds on beat three.

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Locate strings 3 and 2 before starting. The final bar combines a rest, two eighths and a final quarter.

You pass when you read straight through in 8 beats at 48 BPM, then find string 3 after the rest at 52 BPM.

I treat every 1 as a string number.

Find the line before reading the fret number.

I give each eighth note a whole click.

Speak both halves of the beat before playing bar 2 again.