Guitar Lesson How To Easily Learn All The Notes On The Guitar Fret Board!
It’s Mike here again from KillerGuitarTips.com
Hi all… This week I have a tip for beginners… as a budding killer guitar player you need to “eventually”, one way or another, get to know EVERY note on the fretboard!!!!
Before you run off and hide in a corner, as I know this may seem really daunting at the moment, there is a really simple way for you to learn these notes. It is a common myth that it is difficult to learn all the notes on the fret board!! Until now!!
So let’s have a look…
There are twelve musical notes in total and we use the letters A B C D E F & G and the symbols # (sharp) or b (flat) to name them.
Fist off you have to remember that all the letters are followed by a #(sharp) or b(flat) EXCEPT B and E.
For now we will try to keep things really simple and concentrate on using just the sharps (#) for now!
Taking the fifth string played open produces the note of A. I chose this string as it’s the start of the alphabet! Now being as the open string is A the 1st fret is A#, second fret B and the third fret is C (remember there is no # after B) the 4th fret is C# meaning the fifth fret is D…
Carry on up the neck (remember there is no # after E) when you reach the twelfth fret you will be back at A again and the whole process starts again… Try practising this on every string, eventually you will be able to plop your finger on any note and be able to say what note that is instantly…
You will find this quite tedious at first but know one ever got anything worthwhile without a little work! You’ll have to trust me on this one as I know it pays off big time later on!
Also this week I would like to give you two tips! So here’s your second one… also for all you beginners out there…
There hasn’t been many tips for absolute beginners so far but remember my full audio/video guitar course contains a secret structured progression that takes the absolute beginner through to an amazing player in the shortest possible time. So, there’s no need to panic if you feel these tips are too much for you. You can subscribe to my free tips and tricks by going to www.killerguitartips.com and receive one tip each week completely free of charge and receive details of my course as and when we have a release date. The course is guaranteed to take the beginner through to monster player in the shortest possible time.
So let’s get going with another tip for beginners…
You are no doubt aware that you have six strings on your guitar. The first string is the thinest and the sixth string is the thickest. If you playa a string without holding it down against the fret we call this playing the string open. This means we obviously have six open strings and each string should be tuned to a note. On a guitar standard tuning of open strings is as follows:-
6th string is E 5th string is A 4th string is D 3rd string is G 2nd string is B 1st string is E
You must memorise the notes of these open strings as it is essential to the progress of your guitar playing in the future. You need to know these off by heart.
I hope you are finding these tips I am giving you each week enjoyable and beneficial. Until next week…
Enjoy,
Cheers
Mike
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