A Beginner's Guide to Learn the Guitar Neck (+ Guitar Notes Chart Pdf and Notes Training Webapp)

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We, guitar players are one of a kind musicians. Often, we never bother to learn the notes of the guitar fretboard , but we keep relying on fixed chord shapes and scales patterns.

Saxophonists, pianists and other musicians usually do their homework and perfectly know where the notes are on the instrument. This makes them able to apply music theory , sight-reading , and being more complete musicians.

And why we guitarists should we not do the same? On this page, you're going to learn how and why to learn all fretboard notes . It will be easy and fun, and, above all, rewarding .

This free guitar notes map contains several diagrams showing the note on the fretboard for each musical key.

This will help you understand the fretboard step-by-step , starting from a fretboard map with natural notes only , and introducing one sharp or flat note at a time.

Interactive Guitar Fretboard

This tool will shows you the notes on the fretboard. Click on a fret or select the name of a note and the tool will tell you the note or the fret position. (like this interactive tools? Check the other guitar learning software )

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Clear fretboard A B C D E F G A#/Bb C#/Db D#/Eb F#/Gb G#/Ab

Guitar Neck Notes | Don't worry, there is a logic in this madness

Guitar neck map shown from the same point of view of the guitar player. Click to zoom

The picture above shows you the notes of the fretboard. At first sight, it seems just a big mess: many frets, sharps, flats.

If you need help deciphering this map, for now just know that in the diagram the thickest string (E) is at the bottom of the image, and the guitar headstock is on the left .

Basically, the diagram is created with the same point of view of a guitar player playing his/her axe. Now we're going to learn some strategies that simplify all this stuff (if you want something crazy, I even created a LEGO 3d Model of the fretboard, that should help you visualize the pitches).

There are some rules that we can exploit in order to simplify the learning of the fretboard. We'll take this with baby-steps , so feel you free to jump to the sections ahead if you already familiar.

Some guitar players use the CAGED system to organize the fretboard. It's an helpful tool, but to fully apply it you need to know the name of the notes, so stick with us and go ahead with this tutorial.

1) Learn the Names of the open strings

In the beginning, you should memorize at least 6 notes : the names of the open strings! You should memorize the name and the order of the strings.

This will be useful for learning other things. Indeed, often in tutorials and videos, you'll encounter instructions like ' place your finger on the 2nd fret of the 6th string '.

So, the names of the open strings are the following :

1st string - E (the thinnest, highest pitch)
2nd string - B
3rd string - G
4th string - D
5th string - A
6th string - E (the thickest, lowest pitch)

For the sake of information completeness, it's worth it to show you the frequency of the fretboard notes .

Probably in your musical career you'll need this stuff rarely, but it's a good thing to know anyway. A pitch is measured in Hertz , each fret has its own pitch.

A well-known frequency is 440 Hertz , that is 2 octaves up the pitch of the A open string, 110 Hertz . The Diapason , also called Tuning Fork , a device for tuning the guitar, oscillates at 440 Hertz.

1st open string: E 329.63 Hertz
2nd open string: B 246.94 Hertz
3rd open string: G 196.00 Hertz
4th open string: D 146.83 Hertz
5th open string: A 110.00 Hertz
6th open string: E 82.41 Hertz

We can use a mnemonic trick to help us memorize open strings names. By using a phrase in which the first letter of each word corresponds to the name of a string, our life will be easier.

In the examples below, the names of the strings are ordered from the thickest to the thinnest ( E A D G B E ):

E at A ll D ay G et B ig E asy
E very A mateur D oes G et B etter E ventually
E ddie A te D ynamite G ood B ye E ddie
E lephants A nd D onkeys G row B ig E ars

It's perfectly fine to create phrases in the opposite order: from the thinnest string (1st) to the thickest (6th), E B G D A E . Choose what works better for you!

E aster B unny G ets D runk A fter E aster
E very B oy G ets D izzy A round E lle

For a more effective memorization, you should create your own phrases ( there are endless possibilities ); here's one of my phrases, with italian words: E mozionanti A vventure D ove G randi B arche E splodono . If you come up with something cool, please share it in the comments below!

Probably you already noticed that actually there are 2 strings with note E: the lowest (6th) and the highest (1st).

These strings, also called external strings (because they are at the upper and lower border of the fretboard) have different pitches, but their note names are the same .

So actually we just have to memorize the notes of 5 strings!

The notes on the 6th (thickest) string are the same of the 1st (thinnest) string! Click to zoom

3) Learn frets number (0-11)

So far we've considered open strings only. Now it's time to think horizontally and put our attention on frets. Here are some facts about the frets of the guitar neck:

On chord diagrams, tabs and other kind of guitar music notation, if you find a fret numbered with 0 , th

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