So I am still learning how to read music but it looks like we should be playing an F# in this one but the note stays on F (at least in the tab).
Here’s a pic. What is my rookie brain missing?
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Natural sign cancels the previous sharp sign so go back to “F.”
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Oh ok is that because the key of the song (which isn’t shown?)
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I’m not going to look up the lesson, but I’d reason that somewhere previously was an F# as you indicated (that this isn’t the beginning).
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Yea I think I caught a brief glimpse of it in the beginning but we are only playing this short piece. That makes sense.
I remember when I was taking piano lessons how I wrote an email to my teacher telling her what a good boy I was for correcting some music I found that didn’t sound right.
She did have the heart to tell me right away but the next week we started covering key signatures and I remember blushing a lot. 
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I didn’t go back to the lesson either, but I did check out the tablature PDF. I’m guessing maybe the key signature was left off in the lesson? It’s there in the PDF.
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I thought that might be the case as well, but it still comes down to “play what you see”, unless you want to go and see the whole picture (as you did). I remember playing the Bass Buzz lesson Billie Jean and, and having played it previously, thinking that the "snippet in the lesson was inaccurate. Later when seeing the Bass Buzz full PDF it was the Billie Jean I remembered. Play what you see/are given for lesson/learning purposes, but when you’re ready to get down; or, if you need/have to know, this course provides the full song PDF’s.
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Do the lessons provide tracks that you can play along with and slow down?
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My rookie brain is going now too. I hope this makes sense.
The music as posted by Fennario,
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If F # is indicated at the start of the music key signature, I understand all F’s are played sharp through out unless indicated otherwise.
Some F’s are marked natural and shown to be played in the natural position as per the tab section (3rd fret on the D string), all the F’s as shown to be played natural too as per the tab. Does a natural note in a measure make all the following same notes natural or just the one marked? Why have a sharp symbol on the key signature when all the notes end up being natural anyway?
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A natural (or a sharp or a flat) called out on a specific note lasts for the duration of that bar. This is why the natural on the F is repeated in subsequent bars.
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