Learn guitar notes

Knowing how to create a specific note is essential in mastering the guitar. However, when you start to learn guitar notes you have a more difficult task than some of your fellow musicians. On a piano, for example, to play a particular note you simply have to press one key whereas on a guitar that same note is made up of a combination of a string being plucked at the same time as it is being held over a fret, (fretted). The exception to this is when the string is plucked open. 

If you watch an accomplished musician playing guitar riffs or solos, you’ll see their finger glide effortlessly over the fretboard whilst the strings are being plucked.  Often the notes are produced at a phenomenal rate and the musician is clearly not ‘thinking’ what combination of string and fret he has to deploy. It is pure instinct. The journey to develop this instinct is difficult and requires practice and the basics in this article will be a good starting point to learn guitar notes.   

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The chart below will give you the combinations of strings and frets to produce the individual notes and whilst ‘learning’ this chart is the starting point to learn guitar notes, eventually you should be able to ‘picture’ the string and fret combination. By this I mean if someone named a note, in your minds eye you would picture the string being plucked and the particular fret it was being held over. Similarly if you saw a guitarist pluck and fret a string you would immediately visualise the note.  

To assist in learning the fret and string combinations there are several ‘games’ you can download from the internet. But a really simple game you can develop for yourself is to get a pack of plain postcards, write the string and fret combinations from the chart below on one side and the note on the other. The first game involves you laying out the cards with the note name showing upwards and you work through trying to say the correct string and fret combination. You then turn the card up – if you’ve got it right you keep the card turned up and if you’re wrong you turn it face down again and come back to it. When you can successfully name all the string and fret combinations you do the game in reverse. That is the cards show the string and fret combinations and you have to guess the note it produces.  

The very first thing to do is learn the open strings and this mnemonic will help you remember the open strings. 

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Once you’ve learnt that move onto the string and fret combinations.  

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