Welcome to video five in the Beginner Guitar Quick-Start Series. In this lesson, we’re going to learn the names of the open strings on the guitar. When I first learned to play guitar, I avoided this for a long time because I didn’t really have a good way to remember the names of the strings. This lesson is an important one because you’ll soon be tuning your guitar, but also because you need to know the names as you start learning the notes up and down the guitar fretboard.
Let’s quickly recap the numbering system for the strings of the guitar. The first string is the thinnest string, and you’ll count the strings in order, so the thickest string is your sixth string. Like the numbering system for the strings, learning the names is a bit counterintuitive because most people learn the strings from the sixth string to the first string.
The name of the thickest string, the sixth string, is E. Moving on, the fifth string is A, fourth is D, third is G, second is B, and then the first string is E.
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Now you’re probably thinking there’s no way you can remember all these strings, and that’s what I thought when I started too. Eventually, I decided to come up with a silly saying to help me remember the names of the strings: Eat All Day, Go to Bed Early.
I’m sure this sounds silly to you, because it kind of is, but you can use any saying that helps you remember the string names. The other thing that will help you remember the names is realizing the outside two strings are both E, so you only have to remember the four strings on the inside.
Knowing the names of the strings by memory will help you out in future lessons, especially in the next lesson where we go over how to tune the guitar. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us for help.Knowing the names of strings on a guitar is very essential and one of the first basics you need to teach to your students. It’s part of the communication between you and your students. For example: If you say : “Put your pointer finger in the 2nd fret on the A string.” they have to know what you mean. Before teaching guitar chords to kids, you have to make sure that they know the guitar string names.
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Or imagine you need to tune your guitar. In this case you have to know the names of the strings too. Same applies, when changing guitar strings. It’s quite helpful to know the string names by heart and not to look them up everytime you need them.
First thing to know is that a standard guitar has 6 strings. Sure, there are also 12 string guitars but let’s stick to the standard. Each of the string has a name and a number.
The guitar has 6 strings and many guitarist use instead of the string names rather the string numbers. We count them from the bottom to the top. This works also great when communicating with your students but using the string names is much better. Why? Because in this way your students are aware of the notes that they are playing.
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The easiest way to remember the guitar string names is to use an acronym. You can come up with your own acronym or you create one with your students togethers. When teaching guitar for kids, try to make it visual. Draw a guitar neck on a paper with the strings and name them with your students. Let your students draw or paint something next to it to reflect the rhyme.
I created some free printables for your guitar lessons in order to support this part of your course. You can use the color version to print it out as a poster and hang it on the wall of your classroom. The black and white version is perfect as a handout and can be used for homework. Ask your young students to color it out and at the same time they will memorize the string names.Below you’ll find many of the basics of guitar. These are words and labels that are useful to know as a beginner. You’ll find the names and numbers of the guitar strings, and guitar finger names and numbers. You’ll discover the parts of the guitar, and how to tune your guitar.
However, the most important part of learning guitar is playing guitar. This means your hands are on the instrument and you are doing something intentional. As a beginner, just about anything you do on guitar will bring you forward.
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The 6 strings of the guitar are numbered 1–6 from the thinnest string (closest to the floor) to the thickest string (lowest note).
From biggest to smallest strings, the guitar string notes are E A D G B E (This is the standard guitar tuning).
It can be difficult to memorize the string names “E A D G B E” alone. An acronym or mnemonic device may be a helpful way to remember. This gives a word for each letter, in an easy-to-remember phrase.
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Each of the above acronyms appeals to different ages and personalities. There are also countless others, and you can make up your own for the guitar strings in standard tuning.
The right hand fingers are mostly used for classical guitar. Some folk methods label the right fingers differently. But the names below have been standard for generations in classical guitar. The names come from the finger names in Spanish.
Each part of the guitar has a name. Apart from a few key guitar terms, these are largely trivia (unless you build guitars).
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The guitar parts are named similar to human body parts. Looking at the guitar, we can imagine a long-necked woman. This is said to have inspired the names.
The frets are the horizontal lines on the image above. On guitar, these are the metal crosspieces on the guitar neck (also referred to as the guitar fretboard).
From there, we call them in order, starting with one (1) and moving up. On a classical guitar, the body meets the neck at the 12th fret. More on parts of the guitar below.
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There are many methods with which we can tune a guitar. If you’ve just started to learn guitar, the easiest tuning method will be with an electronic tuner or app.
Another easy way of tuning is to make one open string (no fingers on the string) sound like a note on another string. This lets us get the guitar in tune with itself.
Using this method, the guitar may not be in tune with what the rest of the world defines as “in tune”. Standard tuning is when the A = 440hz. This means that the note “A” vibrates 440 per second. This is what most tuning forks are set to. And this is what an electronic tuner will tell you is in tune.
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One exception: when we go to tune the 2nd string, we press the 4th fret of the 3rd string (G string), not the 5th fret like all the others.
This will take some getting used to. Tuning by ear takes practice. To help train your ear, you can first use an electronic tuner or app, then go through this process afterward. This will help you learn what “in tune” sounds like. And it will let you practice the guitar tuning process, without having to actually tune.
I started as a folk guitarist, then fell in love with classical guitar in my 20’s. Despite a lot of practice and schooling, I still couldn’t get my music to flow well. I struggled with excess tension. My music sounded forced. And my hands and body were often sore. I got frustrated, and couldn’t see the way forward. Then, over the next decade, I studied with two other stellar teachers – one focused on the technical movements, and one on the musical (he was a concert pianist). In time, I came to discover a new set of formulas and movements. These brought new life and vitality to my practice. Now I help guitarists find more comfort and flow in their music, so they play more beautifully.
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