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The Guitar Fretboard - How To Learn The Notes
By Ricky Sharples
The fretboard of the guitar is a mystery to beginner guitar players. How to crack the secrets of the fretboard is a matter of patience and practice. The trick is discovering how to find patterns of notes where no pattern is at first obvious. You will need a diagram or the notes on the fretboard which you can find in any guitar tutor or you can download one from the internet and print it out so you will have it handy. When we learn how to play the guitar we need to learn the notes used in the major scales. You will need to know how to find them on every string of the guitar. If we start with the first string we have the note E with F at the first fret, G on the third, A at the fifth, B at the seventh, C at the eighth, D at the tenth and finally, E at the twelfth fret. Learn the notes on the first string (which are the same as the sixth string). It will only take a couple of days of practice till you feel that you can go to any note without thinking about it. You will need to go through the same process for all the other strings but don't worry, the process gets easier as you get used to it. You can get the notes of the other strings from your guitar fretboard diagram which will be much easier to understand than if I wrote it all out here. Another way of learning how to negotiate the guitar fretboard is to learn one particular note on all the guitar strings. As an example, take G. As you can see from your fretboard diagram it's at the third fret on the first and sixth strings, the tenth fret on the fifth string, the fifth fret on the fourth string, the open third string and the eighth fret on the second string. Play all of these G notes as a scale, up from the sixth string and down from the first. To understand how to find notes on the fretboard takes only a minimal amount of practice every day. The kind of exercises we do to learn the fretboard notes do not lend themselves to long periods of practice. If you devote just a short time to your understanding of how to relate to the fretboard, it will make your understanding of music as whole much better.
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