Merrily

The B note is an open string (you don't hold down any strings). Remember the acronym to remember your guitar's string names:

(From the lowest-pitched string to the highest-pitched)

Eddie

Ate

Dynamite

Good-

Bye

Eddie

B (Bye) would be open 2nd string (B2):

The B note is placed on the 3rd line from the bottom of the staff:

Don't forget: the "hat" means two beats of silence. So, mute your strings when you reach the hat at the end of "Merrily"!

A Review of Notes - A and G

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Remember: The note G is placed on the 2nd line of the staff. To play the note A, place your second finger of your left hand on the 2nd fret of the G string (the string where you would play the note G). A quarter note is a note cimpletely "filled in" (view "Giraffes and Ants") and lasts one beat. A half note has a space at the base, meaning it lasts two beats (view "Half Time"). Always pluck downward. The two numbers at the beginning of the above staffs are called four four time signatures. They are placed after the treble clef and tell you there are four counts in each bar.