One of the most important guitar lessons to master is learning the notes on the fretboard. Even if you don’t know chord placement, you can still find chords if you know where each note is. Don’t let the long fretboard scare you away. It’s far easier to learn the guitar fretboard than you might think. Luckily, a little practice and a few tricks make it easy.
When learning how to play guitar, you should know the musical alphabet is a little different than the alphabet you learned as a child. Learning notes starts with some basic music theory. With the natural musical alphabet, you only have seven notes – A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. They’re called natural since you have no flats or sharps. All your sharps and flats occur between these notes. Once you know these, learning sharps and flats is as simple as moving up or down.
Sharps and flats are just half-steps away from the natural notes. So what’s the big difference between the two? It’s all in how you move. Every half-step (or fret) changes the note.
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Flats are the exact opposite. One half-step down leads to a flat. For instance, if you step down from A, you’d get Ab. The confusing part comes into play with a single note has two names and the name depends mainly on the key you’re playing in. For instance, the note between D and E is D# if you’re stepping up and Eb if you’re stepping down.
Pro Tip: An easy way to keep your sharps and flats straight is to think of stepping on a bug. When you step down on the bug, it’s flat, just like notes on your guitar.
All natural notes have sharps and flats between them except BC and EF. A half-step between these leads to the next natural note. Stepping up from B leads you to C. Stepping down from F leads to E.
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Using standard tuning, your strings are E, A, D, G, B, and E. If you played an open string, meaning you’re not holding down a note at any fret, those would be the notes played. This gives you a reference point to start learning. As you may notice, your high and low string are both E, meaning they’ll have the same notes, giving you less to memorize.
At this point, it’s a simple matter of counting up notes as you go along the fretboard. As you can see from the following fretboard images, the first fret is one half-step up from the string name or note. Just remember the BC and EF rule to keep your notes in order.
Now for the next trick in helping you learn the guitar fretboard. You only need to learn the first 12 frets as the notes begin repeating. For instance, look at the B String image above. On fret 12, the note becomes B again. Fret 13 would then be C, the same as fret 1. That’s much less to learn.
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All you really have to learn is octave centers and your E and A strings. You can find any note on the fretboard just by referencing octaves on these strings. References are always two strings over. For instance, in the diagram below, you can see that we’re finding G on the D string by referencing its location on the E string. You could then use the D string to find notes on the B string.
In the same way, you could use your A string to find the notes on the G string, then the G string to find the notes on the high E string.
Now, it’s time to start learning those notes on your E and A strings. Get those down and you’ll quickly master the notes on the fretboard.
Reading Notes On The Second String
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If you recall from the post on Session 1, we learned that the first string is also called the E string. Played open (without touching it), the note this string makes is what? Right - an E. Nice work! The other three notes on the first string are F and G. See the diagram and TAB on the right to see how to play these notes.
The notes we're going to be learning are all in the first position. That means your first, second, third and fourth fingers correspond to the first through fourth frets, respectively.
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To practice these notes, I've included a first string exercise just below. There are lots more of these in the lesson book that comes with the course. It is very important to practice these exercises. Not only will it help you learn the notes on the strings, but it will develop finger and hand strength and coordination which will be indispensable as you continue to learn.
Moving on the the second string (second from the bottom of the neck), we have the B string. That means this string plays a B note when open. The other two notes in the first position on the second string are C and D. See chart at right for fingering positions and TAB.
Your second finger is your middle finger. As your first learning, your finger will touch other strings as your trying to play notes. In the beginning this is OK. As you improve, this problem will solve itself as you become used to playing so don't get discouraged if you keep muting other strings with your fingers.
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Below is a second string exercise to help you learn these notes. One tip would be to write the name of the notes above the images of the notes on the music to help you learn note names. If you're reading off of a computer (which you probably are if you're reading this blog!), you can simply say the note out loud as you play it.
When going through these exercises, don't worry about playing fast or perfectly. Aim for a smooth, steady rhythm, trying to give each note it's proper number of beats (quarter note gets one beat, half note gets two beats, etc.). Keep playing exercises until there is no hesitation between the notes.
I'll leave you with an actual video lesson taken right from Session 2 of our guitar course. It covers notes on the second string:
Learn The Notes On The Guitar » Lead Guitar Lessons
Keep practicing hard for 30 minutes each day and you'll be more than ready for Session 3, coming in a couple of weeks! If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment below or visit the Session 2 thread in the Student Support Forum.
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