We have seen big people do it, we think its difficult but believe me, i will guide you through the common used notations and it will with time become very easy for you to read music. Reading is a very important task, it helps you to play better and get a better hold of your guitar. These days Tabs have come to more popularity but tabs only give you the notes you have to play, they don’t give you an idea of how fats you should play, then what rhythm should u play them at. But after learning to read music , you can do all of this if you know how to read music.

Now learning how to read music is time consuming and needs a lot of practise, but it will really help you out in future If you work with it, though, it’ll be well worth the effort - there won’t be any music you can’t understand or adapt to the guitar, even if you’ve never heard it before. So lets get started with few basics
Standard notation is written on a set of five horizontal lines called the staff:

Guitar music is usually written using a treble clef, which looks like this:

The purpose of a clef is to identify the names of the lines and spaces. Each line or space will represent one letter of the musical alphabet, which is the letters A through G. Using the treble clef, the lines are (from the bottom up): E-G-B-D-F, which you can remember using the mnemonic Every Good Boy Does Fine. The spaces, from the bottom up, spell out the word F-A-C-E. Combining these two, we can write the notes from E through F on the staff:

The head of a note is a roughly circular shape:

and if only this is there then it means there is a whole note to be played at that point.

A stem can be added to a note. When a stem is used, the head can be either hollow or solid:

Notes with stems and hollow heads are called half notes; notes with stems and solid heads are called quarter notes.

Notes with solid heads can have flags:

Notes with one flag are called eighth notes.
We can keep adding flags to a note, getting sixteenth notes, thirty-second notes, and so on:

Now the shape will tell us how long you have to play a note, the half note is to be played half the time as compared to the full note, the quarter one is 1/4th of whole note or half of half note
Music also has rests or pauses in between:

To handle the ‘extra’ notes, we’ll use temporary extensions of the staff called ledger lines, and keep going higher or lower as needed:

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