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Guitar: Lesson 7
The Notes on the Fretboard
By Zack Cart
Prerequisites:
You should be able to understand and perform the concepts and techniques outlined in the following lessons before attempting this lesson:
Music Theory: Lessons 1-3
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This lesson will be a bit out of the sequence of the other lessons, but will both support and be supported by them. In addition, the more comprehensive knowledge of the fret-board presented in this lesson will be necessary for later lessons.
The lesson will be quite brief, detailing the pitches available on the guitar neck within the first twelve frets, with each note described in terms of note name(s), notation on the staff, and fret positions on the guitar neck. The set-up is quite simple, and should be easy to understand. Each measure contains one or two notes, both with the same pitch, but different names. In the measure, you will see the notated note(s). Directly beneath each should be its name. Below that should be a set of one to three string and fret combinations at which the desired pitch can be played.
For example, the first measure in the third line of the below chart depicts two notes. These are E, and Fb, respectively, and are labeled as such directly beneath. Below, we find three ways to play this pitch, the twelfth fret of the Low E-string; the seventh fret of the A-string, or the second fret of the D-string.
This may seem daunting for now, but in time, these pitches, their various note names, and the frets at which they can be played will become familiar to you. For now, do not strive to remember all of them, but instead use this chart as a quick reference when reading through notated material.
