: How to find the the guitar notes in the staff notation if it starts from other than key of C I can identify the open string in the key of C, but i don't know how to identify the open string if it starts from other than key

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You look at the notes in the scale. Whichever of them happens to be E, A, D, G or B, (or an enharmonic equivalent) can potentially be played with an open string, at least from the one octave. And assuming that your guitar is tuned to regular E A D G B E tuning.

The C major scale doesn't have any sharps or flats, and its notes are:

C, D, E, F, G, A, B

From this set of notes, D, E, G, A and B can be played using an open string (in the one octave where the open strings are). For C and F, no open string can be found.

Bb major has two flats: Bb and Eb. The notes of the scale are:

Bb, C, D, Eb, F, G, A, Bb

From this set of notes, D, G and A can be played using an open string, at least in one octave. For Bb, C, Eb and F, no open string can be found.

The E, B and E strings are nowhere on the Bb major scale, so that's why there's no arrows for them.

The higher A note on the staff doesn't have an arrow pointing to any string. That's because it's in a higher octave than the open A string.

(Enharmonic equivalent means, for example Fb - if you ever encounter such a thing - can be played with the E string. Cb can be played with the B string.)