The bridge is made to keep the strings elevated above the body and the neck of the guitar, so the strings may freely ring without obstruction.
The bridge also holds the saddle in place and includes some way of fastening the strings.
An important part of your daily practice is to memorize the pattern of steps in music.
You should be able to recite your musical alphabet out loud and in two directions, both up and down the step ladder.
To find the limitations of intensity on your guitar, pick string number 6 continuously using 60 beats per minute as your tempo.
Alternate your picking direction and play as softly as possible, so the notes are just audible.
If you are having trouble telling one note from another, try using the two strategies you have learned for quick recall.
Starting from the bottom of the staff and moving upward, the lines of the staff can be quickly recalled by applying the sentence: Every Good Boy Does Fine, where each word in the sentence begins with the pitch letter name of a staff line.
Use this strategy for any notes that fall on a line.
A cadence is a close or ending in a section of music.
You can hear a cadence when the music changes in a way that relates a feeling of finality.
In this song, the note combination through measures 3 & 4 form a cadence.
The note combination through measures 7 & 8 also form a cadence.
Let's invert this music and start at the highest note, G Third Fret.
Here the note sustained with a Tie is A Second Fret, which is the lowest note in your musical alphabet.
In the second measure, beat number 3 is showing the note E Open, which is played on string number 1, and beat number 4 is showing the note D Third Fret, which is played on string number 2.
At this place in the music, you must execute a smooth pass from one string to another.
Play string number 1 on your guitar, keeping time with the second hand of the clock or with the seconds digit on a digital clock.
As you play, alternate your picking direction, keeping the heel of your picking hand just behind the bridge saddle and moving your hand side to side from your wrist.
As you play this measure, try including slight accents on the downbeats as you alternate your picking direction.
Since a sixteenth note group divides a beat into four pieces, which is an even number, every downbeat in the measure will play out with a down stroke of the pick.
You may find it helpful to sing the count as you play through the pitches.