if its on seperate staves (sets of lines) it should tell you which is guitar & which is piono, unless its made by some idiot who expects you to be telepathic.

if its on one stave it will work for both piano & guitar.

the strum pattern - & the start of the stave you will see either a 4 above another 4 meaning there are 4 beats per bar or 3 over 4 meaning 3 beats per bar or something like that. well if a note is to be picked it will be on its own if it is connected to another note it will be picked by a down stroke followed by an upstroke (alternative picking) the timing

so.....

pretend b is a musical note & if ther is a - between to it is a quaver (connected note)

b-b-b-b b b-b

this will be sounded as the strum pattern

1 & 2 & 3 4 &


also if a note has no leg & a hollow dot it lasts 4 notes, if a note has a leg & a hollow dot it lasts 2 notes, if it has a leg & a full dot it last 1 note.

& finally if a note has a dot behind it it increases the value of that note by half.






i hope that helps, i cant really read music well, i just quickly jotted down the few things i know, i hope im right