Every line and space on the stave represents a different pitch, the higher the note, the higher the pitch. You will see that the notes are placed in various positions on five parallel lines called a stave. When notated, the open string sounds of the violin look like this: The notes of the violin strings without any fingers pressed down, which are commonly known as the open strings, are called G, D, A and E, with G being the lowest, fattest string and E the highest sounding, finest string. Once you get to G the note names begin again at A. The notes in Western music are given the names of the first seven letters of the alphabet: A, B, C, D, E, F and G. What you see on the page is a sort of drawing of what you will hear. Music, like language, is written with symbols which represent sounds from the most basic notation which shows the pitch, duration and timing of each note, to more detailed and subtle instructions showing expression, tone quality or timbre, and sometimes even special effects. It tells you what to play, when to play it and how to play it. To a musician, written music is like an actor’s script. When you first start learning the violin, you will also start learning to read music.
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