Practice Strategies to learn to read guitar music on the 1st string here! 1) Write the Musical Alphabet 7 letters ABCDEFG 2) Write the Musical Alphabet 2x to see how G goes back to A ABCDEFGABCDEFG 3) Write the #b notes between all the letters except BC & EF (no #b between these letters) A #b BC #b D #b EF G A 4) Play each BROWN letter on the 2nd page fretboard starting from the letter E, say the letters and play the frets of the guitar forwards and backwards 3x a day EF G A BC D E forwards 3x b