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This is kind of a complicated question, so bear with me here people.

My old guitar book taught me how to read notes on all six strings all the way up to the 3rd fret. My new guitar book is now teaching me the notes on the first and second string all the way up to the 13th fret. The first string notes up to the 13th fret are really easy to understand. But I'm having a problem with the second string notes. There's also a little diagram for the second string notes, but some of the notes are placed exactly the same as the first string notes (but that is obviously going to happen). For example, the first string notes are from the open E string to the F note on the 13th fret. Ok, that was easy. But for the second string most of the notes are places exactly the same on the music measure as the first string notes are with the little numbers "1," "3," etc. below indicating which fret to play the note on. Well, what I want to know is how do I know when to play those certain notes that are for both the first and second string? I mean, for the little example diagram there is a little (2) sign indicating that you play the notes on the second string, but I don't think most songs will have that.

Hope that wasn't ridiculously unclear!