The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. If I said what note is on the 10th fret? Using the sequence of notes and the fret marker references you should be able to quickly work it out. Now you have reference points all along your E string. I’ll let you work out a mnominc for that. The notes on frets 3 5 7 9 on the E string are. If we remember what notes are at frets 3 5 7 and 9, we can easily workout the notes in between. If you have a common type guitar, your fret markers should be at frets 3 5 7 9 and then we’re at double dots which is the 12th fret. Using the fret markers and memorising what the notes are for these frets, not makes working out the other notes much quicker. In the beginning it doesn’t help to just work your way up 1 semi tone at a time, to work what the notes are. Here’s where the inlays or fret markers come in to effect. If we play at fret 2, we’d play the note F# and so on and so on. If I’ve explained myself clearly enough, you should have worked out it’s an F. If we play fret 1, on the 6th string, which is 1 semi tone away from our open tuning note of E, what note are you playing at fret 1? If we place our finger on the 6th string at any fret, we are going to be making the note higher in pitch. ![]() The 6th string, is tuned to E so here is our starting point. Reading this from left to right, the notes are becoming higher in pitch. Each note is a semi tone/half step away from the next.Įach fret of the guitar is a semi tone/half step.Ī Bb B C C# D D# E F F# G G# and then it’s back to A and everything repeats. Musical notes go in a specific order, they cannot be changed. If you know your notes on the E string, you’ll know where to play the F chord shape to create Bb chord. If you wanted play B flat, you should be able to understand that you can play it with this 1 chord shape. Keep your fingers creating the same shape and move them up 1 fret and you’re now playing F#.Įxact same shape, you just moved it up 1 fret and created a new chord. The placement of your fingers for the F chord at fret 1, is the F chord. Reason being, the F chord shape, can be played at every fret, which creates a new chord. The best place to start, is to learn just the notes of the E string. ![]() Now that we know what the notes for each string are, we can now start learning all the other notes of the fretboard. You might now see a resembelence in the dots on your guitar. EADGBE.įret 13 has the same notes and fret 2, fret 14 same as fret 3 etc etc. Now you know the notes of the 12th frets too. This now elimanates almost half of the fretboard, that you may have thought you needed to learn also. The 12th fret onwards, ( The fret with the double dots usually ) is where the guitar repeats itself. To get you past not wanting to learn any of the other notes on the guitar I thought I’d mention this. I learnt the notes of each string just by saying them relatively quickly a handful each time. If you think you can remember the 1st & 6th strings are both E, we can shorten what we need to remember which is ADGB. You can make mnemonics if you wish to remember the other strings Guitar Tuning Mnemonic ![]() You then only need to remember the other 4 strings in between. ![]() The ‘E’asiest way to learn the notes is to remember that the 1st (Thinnest) & 6th (Thickest( strings are the same note. You can come up with your own way of memorising the notes for each of the strings but then you’ve got to remember that too. We are going to use standard tuning as our reference point to learn all the other notes. E being the thickest 6th string and the e being the thinnest, 1st string.Īnother way to remember the note order, is when you strum a guitar you naturally want to strum the strings downwards. The reason for the lower case ‘e’ is to help indicate the order of these notes on your guitar strings. Let’s start with the most important notes you must know on your guitar. Now, you may not even be interested in all of that but if you take the time to learn the notes on each string, you’ll quickly start seeing how useful it is knowing them. Knowing what note you play on any string at any fret, will dramatically increase your guitar skills, chord building, improvisation, soloing and song writing.
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