We're starting to understand where the E string is, from the E string up, we're starting to understand where the A string is, from the A string, up to the E string. notes that I can play on my D string are from D optimi, a string. And I have these notes down here, where my G string or my fourth string is going to be. And in order to get a good handle on using these lines that fall below our staff is we're going to need to know a couple ways to count backwards. The easiest way to count backwards is using our one two threes the opposite way So here's my staff, I have five lines. And if this is my third finger, I'm gonna come back to from three.

Then my second finger to my first finger, one, zero. There's a step in here that's a little bit counterintuitive. If I go up, and I count up, I go, open 123, open 123, and so on. And that seems pretty simple to do. But if I go backwards, I go 321 open. Now my next one, so I have to go if I go lower than that, I have to go from zero to three So this pattern backwards is three to one, open 321, open three.

So what comes after zero or zero fingers and open is a three of them counting backwards, 321, open, 321, open, 321, open and so forth. Now, the other way to count backwards if we're thinking about notes specifically, is a little harder. Now, our musical alphabet, again is A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and it repeats itself over and over again. And the same way happens if I go backwards. And why we're looking at this is because I have to get down to these lower notes. And so far, I know that this is E. Every Good Boy does fine.

And I want to try to figure out what notes these are lower than my E. So the easiest way to do that is by using your alphabet alphabet backwards. And here's a good trick to be able to help us figure out how to say, GFP dcba in a smooth way that makes it easy for our brain to remember. So I have gene, F, ed. And then I'm going to break it up. So I'm going to just have g f, Ed, and then C, B, A. Now if I just say GPD i mean i'm pretty quickly.

It sounds a little bit like the word graffiti. So graffiti, then I have to memorize the last little bit CVA which is a little easier to do. So the thing that sounds like graffiti CBA turns out To GPD CBA so as I'm going up my scale to abcdefg, which all of us know for alphabet on the way backwards is gf. Ed CBA. govt CBA. And once you get good at enough, you don't have to put that pause in there you go gap dcba.

Right. So I'm trying to learn these notes that are on my G string. Here's my staff, I have five lines 12345. Here's my treble clef. And I know that this is an E note. If I go down one, G, F, E, D, C, the A.

And if I go up, one Morris gf EDC da Jean. So I'm doing this backwards, but it kind of makes it a little bit easier to think of what these next steps are because I'm always remembering what at least this note, was he for remembering my lines and spaces, Every Good Boy does fine. If I can think about this and subtract in my alphabet, I can I know what these other notes are. So II, D, C, B, A, G. When I'm thinking about these notes, as far as a finger perspective goes. I'm thinking about these in relationship to my open strings. So my open string, again, my first open string, my Eastern was the very top space that I went down to and I found my a string or my second string and I know Do the same thing with D, my third string open.

Now if this is a D, I do the exact same thing. I go down one space, skip it, I find G. Okay, so now that I have G, I know that's open, so no fingers. So I'm going to start here, fresh from here on out. I'm going to have two lines underneath my lowest line for my staff. And then I'm going to draw a note, jeans are open fourth string, so fourth string, or G. Once I have that I know it's open. So on my violin is simply the fourth largest, the biggest string so 1234, the big string.

And when I see this note, that's all I do is a plate open, no fingers. If I go up one liner space, this is open, just so you can draw your eye to it. This is the open, this is the open that we're thinking of right here. If I go up one liner space, I have to add one to it just like we did before. And now I'm going to play my index finger or my first finger here. So this is a one I placed my first finger on this note, which is an 18.

Okay, so now I'm going to do it one more time. But now I'm going to move up to this note, so I'll go from here is one liner space above where I just was. So I have to add one to add one to the value. So now this becomes open. One, two, so this becomes my second finger. Right?

So this is open, open G Then my first finger is about an inch away from the nut. Oh, and that's this a note right here. And now my big note is that second finger, it's about an inch away from my index finger, and that becomes this too. So as I play, it's Oh, Oh, right. Now the very next note, after that, I went from open my first finger, my second finger, and if I go up one liner space above, or I was I'm going to add one to the value, so I get three. So now I'm going to use my third finger for this note happens to be a C note.

But if I, if I think about open 123, I'm going to use my third finger so my index finger for a Oh my two. For this B note And when it comes to this third finger is the three is right next to the two. So open 123. So I'm gonna play this for you. open G, A, this is a B note, and then C. And then after that, I'm going to count. One, two.

Ready, go. Pause, and then we're going to play it together. So here we go. Example first gene. Here's the A or the one. Here's the B, or the two on the fourth string G. Now the three is a C, three.

And then we're going to do it together. One, two, ready, go. OpenGL Here's the a note. Here's the two, three, which is a C. All right, great job. And we'll see you in the next lesson.