Now we know what the stack looks like what this treble clef looks like, we know that the staff has five lines. And we know that these lines have some names to them. Every Good Boy does fine. Every Good Boy Deserves fudge, and the spaces in between the lines being FA CE spellings face. Now that we know that we're going to take a simpler approach on how to read music on our violin. Now, what I mean by that is music, when it was written in manuscript form is what you're seeing was meant specifically to be written for violin which makes it extremely easy, and this is how it works mathematically.

The first thing that we're going to do is we're going to find our first open string. And what I mean by that is on your violin, you have your first string Your Eastern or the little bitty string? And where is that on our staff? Well, what we're going to do is we're going to find our spaces. And we're going to find the top space. And what I mean by the top space is the space that's closest to the ceiling.

So the very top space that you see, that's surrounded by two lines. Now, for your reference, there are still spaces and lines that go above what you see, and spaces and lines that go below what you see. But we're specifically working on this space. And I'm going to draw a circle to represent where that spaces now that space is he or are Eastern, a little bitty string. And remember, when we learned our spaces, it was F, A C and an E. So that's where that He exists or how we get there. How do we find that Once I have my first open string, we'll call it open string.

So we can kind of see it visually as we go along. And this is we'll call it one or the first string open. Now that I have my first string open, and I find out where it is on my top space, I'm going to go to the very next face below. And I'm going to draw a little curved line to to notate that I'm going there, and then I'm skipping it. So I'm going to the very next one. So I started at the top space.

I went down one space, I skipped it. And now I'm going down one more space. And I found my second open string. So the difference that we found is this is our first string. He goes Little bit string. And I went from my top space and I went one space down, down to the next space down.

And now I found my second open string, which is the second string. So first string, second string, which is the A string. And my first one is the E string. Okay, so we're following so far. And if this is moving too fast for you, simply rewind, go back a little bit further in this lesson, and review the steps to find the first string and then do it a couple times. So you get it and then we're gonna move on to the second string.

Now what I want you to see as we move along here is the same mathematical principles happen every time we try to find an open string. So if what I did is I went to the top opens up top space and I skipped a space I went down, and I went down. So if I counted it out, if I counted itself as an open, I'd go 123. And if you decided not to count itself, you'd go one, two, however, which way you decide to do it, you're going to do it the exact same way to find your next open string. So I go from my second string open, which is on a space, and I go down one space, and I skip it. And now I go down one space again.

And I found my third string open. So my third string open is 123, third largest string and call that D, my D string, D. open string okay. So as you can see, the distance between my first string II open, skip, find is the same as how I found my third open string. I started at my second open string, I skip an open, I go down one more Oh, one, I skip a space. Sorry, I skip a space. And I go down one more, and I've found my next open string.

So if I decide to count the space as one, I go 123 and then I do it again. 123. And if I decide to count, I don't decide to count itself as my starting space. I go 1212 and the same principle applies. Okay. So what we can see here is that there are splines and spaces above and there's lines and spaces below.

And they go down to infinity and up to infinity. So if I was going to try to find my fourth string, try to think about how we would find it. Now let's go through it. So we start on our third string, and we do the exact same thing one more time. We go down, we start up a space that our third string starts on, and we go down one space, skip it, just like we did before. And we go down one more space again.

And now I'm going to have my fourth string or gene. The big fat string is G, my fourth string, my open string. All right, so let's do One last time, I'm going to find my very top space. And that's going to be my first open string happens to be to find my next open string on my violin, I'm going to use a startup that opens that open string that I found and I go one, two down, and I find my next open string. The same principle applies when I go down again. So I start on the open string.

I go one, two, and now I'm on my third string, I found it, it's on a space. And I do it again, one, two, and I found my other open string. Some things to think about. As you're starting to gain some some knowledge about your open strings. open strings. On your treble clef, on your staff are only on spaces.

They're never on lines. So just keep that in mind. As we move forward to make it a little bit more clear as we move along into putting our first fingers, their second fingers and third fingers down, and finding where to put them and we'll see you in the next lesson.