Hi again. Now that we know where our strings are our first string open our second string, open, our third string open, and our fourth string open. And remember, we used the simple approach of finding the top space and we go. If we count itself, we go 123. And the same principle upright applies. All of these notes are the exact same distance apart with just one space in the middle.

Keep in mind that open strings never never found online. So if you find something online, a note online, it's never going to be open. So with that in mind, we're going to start learning some notes on our E string. Sometimes when you see a note, you're gonna see circles Generally, so sometimes you see them as a filled in circle. Sometimes there are unfilled in circle, sometimes they have a filled in circle with a stem. Sometimes they have a filled in circle with a stem and a flag.

And they look a little bit different. But what we're looking for just at this point is that when we see a circle, where are we going to play it on our violin? So we don't necessarily care about the note value or the length of the note yet. We just are thinking about where do I find it on my violin. And in this case, if I see any one of these notes or circles, I'm going to have my East string, my little bitty string, and I'm going to play a note either down or up, and it's not gonna matter at this point. Right?

What works out great for us These notes that are on the E string notes are that are on the A string, and those that are on the D string and the G string is that they all work out mathematically the same. And I'm going to show you the how this works. So each string is right here, our first string found in the top space of our staff. If I know that this is open, and what I think gonna stay open, I'm going to include a number up here and try not to confuse this circle with this looking circle. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to fill this in so that you know that that's a note and I'm going to leave this blank so you then know that this is zero, and I'll do zero. So now you can see the word very small.

If you can see it, the word zero. Okay. If I go I'd use this open. So this is another zero up here. And I go one space or align above the note that I'm starting at. So let's take a look at this.

I'm starting here on my top space, my open note. If I go one line or space above, where am I starting note is that so I'm starting on the space, I'm just going up one line or space to this line. Right. What I'm going to do is I'm going to add one to it because I went one time up. I'm going to add one to the value of it. So this was 00 also means open, no fingers.

Now the amount of fingers that I'm going to put on this one because I went one space up is going to be one And that would be my first finger, my index finger. So on our hand, our thumb doesn't have a value, but my index finger does. This is 123, and four. So it's just like counting 1234. So when I think of playing these two notes together, I want to play first one note. And that's the first string open.

And you can go ahead and do it now with me so 321. And now we've just played this open. Now we're going to look at this note. And remember, when our index finger goes about one inch away from this nut, it's going to go right about there, but the string that it's going to go on is our first string, and that'll become clear a little bit later. So I'm just going to pluck this. You can use it you can plug it to or you can With your bow, so 321 go.

Now, we've successfully played this note. So the letters that go with this are E. So we're looking here at this E note and then we also have F. It's actually an F sharp, but we're not going to worry about it right now. Because I don't have anything in a key signature quite yet. We don't know what that means quite yet. And that's okay. But we're just thinking of this pretty simplistically at this point.

And we're just going to call it an F because it lands on the F note. So how did I arrive to say that that's an F note? I went, Every Good Boy does fine, right. So now, I have I understand the distance between my own On my very first space, and my one that's on my line that's above my space because I went one step upwards, I added one to zero to get to one. And when I go to zero, that means zero fingers, and the one means one fingers. Okay, now that the process continues when I get to my second finger, this here is a G note.

Now, we're going to discuss why that's a genome in a future lesson. But what I want you to get out of this is that I started at my open string. I went one above my open string, so I added one to it. And I got one zero plus one equals ones and I put my first finger here on the F. If I go up, one more I'm going to add one to my one. So one plus one equals two. So now I'm going to put my second finger when I see this note.

So simply, if I go from space to line to space, consequentially, I'm going to go open one, two. And when I'm thinking about this at the very beginning, I'm not really specifically thinking about this is an E, this is an F, this is a G, I'm breaking it down into finger basis can make it easier to look, look at what I'm seeing and say is that an open a one or two. Now, the same thing happens here. I'm going to go one more up. So there's these lines that we don't get to see that are above it. And I'm going to draw a note there as a circle and started at an open on my first space.

And I went one above it, I added one to it. And so I was able to get to my first finger, and I added one to it to get to this genome, or the second finger. What do you suppose if we go up one more can the next line. So what from this space to this line, I'm going up one time. So I add one to it. And here I'm going to play three.

So just as a little reminder of the last lesson that we got a couple last lessons that we've done, we've done open, no fingers, and that's an indication of this note open. Then our index finger goes about one inch above where this this nut is and then if I'm gonna play it to that to typically when we will proceed To learn violin is going to be about an inch away from where index finger is or one. So whenever I see a note here or a G note, we're going to have what's a G sharp, but we're going to call a G for now. So we have that too. And then when I see a three, which is an A note that a is going to be played with my third finger three. So I'll have my index finger about an inch away, my second finger about an inch away from my one, and my third finger is really close to that second finger, and that's going to be my eighth note or my third finger.

Okay? So if I was going to play these in concession, without any specific length, I'm going to play open 123. So we're going to play it together. I'm going to give you the example first. So your lesson listen to it. And then on the second time around, I'm going to say 123.

Go and then we'll plan. So here's your example. Why One, two, ready? Go. All right. And here's a great example of how we get to find some notes that are on the E string.

Now we know how to play some notes on the E string, and we'll see you in the next lesson.