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. For example, if you tune the B String down to A then the name is still called the B String.Knowing what note you play on any string at any fret, will dramatically increase your guitar skills, chord building, improvisation, soloing and song writing. It's important to know that the names of the strings don't change even if you tune them to different notes. The numbers represent the frets starting from 0 with no finger on the string (an open string) and 1 being the first fret closest to the tuning pegs. When reading the notes below you'll need to know that '#' means 'sharp' and 'b' means 'flat'. ![]() As you can see the names of the strings are the same as the lowest 4 strings on a 6 string guitar - they are however an octave lower on the bass guitar. The 4 strings on a standard bass guitar are E, A, D, and G. This string is highest open note on the guitar and is tuned to 329.63 Hz. Regardless of what type of guitar you have, the standard tuning is 196.00 Hz.Īgain this will be thinner than the string above, and it's standard tuning is 246.94 Hz. If you have a steel string guitar then this string will be thinner than the D string, however if you have an acoustic guitar with nylon strings, then this will usually be the first nylon string and it will often be thicker than the D string above it. This is where a change in thickness can occur. The D string is again slightly thinner than the A string. The next thickest string is tuned to A at 110.00 Hz. This is the thickest string and the one closest to the top when you are holding your guitar - it's the E string on the left in the picture above. ![]() 'G string' or 'A string'.įirstly, lets take a look at where these names come from on the good old 6 string guitar. Experienced players usually refer to each string by it's open note in Standard Tuning: E.G. And now you would like to know each of the guitar string names - or as some guitarists call them: guitar string notes.
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