Sometimes trying to learn the notes on the guitar can seem like an impossible task the trick is to learn a small amount of information and link it to something you already know; this style of connected learning makes it easy to remember and recall quickly! It's helpful to remember that our musical alphabet contains only seven different letters and that they are the first seven letters of the alphabet: A - B - C - D - E - F - G Once we arrive at the letter "G" our musical alphabet begins again at the letter "A" this musical loop or conveyor belt concept is the key to unlocking the guitar fingerboard.
Our project today is to learn the notes on the third string in the open position.
Step 1.
Check the names of the open strings to identify the name of the third string open.
Here is a list of all the open strings of the guitar, the first string is the string closest to the floor.
E--0- string 1 B--0- string 2 G--0- string 3 D--0- string 4 A--0- string 5 E--0- string 6 As you can see the name of the third string open is "G", this gives us our starting point on the musical conveyor belt.
Step 2.
Use the musical conveyor belt to name the notes on the third string; to do this we would simply locate the letter "G" in the conveyor belt series and continue from there.
But...
before we do that we need to make a modification to our conveyor belt, if you were to look at a piano keyboard you would notice that some notes have black notes in between them whilst other notes do not.
The black notes represent sharps and flats; therefore in order for your conveyor belt system to correctly represent every note including the sharps and flats we need to convert our belt system to a 'chromatic' scale.
The term chromatic means 'color' so when we are referring to a chromatic scale we are speaking of a scale that represents all the possible musical 'colors' or 'tones'.
Review time: Here is our original musical alphabet (the white notes or natural notes on a piano keyboard).
A - B - C - D - E - F - G The same scale converted to a 'chromatic' scale (containing all the notes both black and white on the keyboard) would look like this: A - A#/Bb - B - C - C#/Db - D - D#/Eb - E - F - F#/Gb - G - G#/Ab The third string of the guitar is the note "G" G--0- string 3 (open) Step 3.
Starting on the note "G" indicated as [] in our chromatic scale move to the next 'natural' non-sharpened or flattened note, which would be the note "A" found on the third string; second fret.
A - A#/Bb - B - C - C#/Db - D - D#/Eb - E - F - F#/Gb - [G] - G#/Ab - A The third string second fret of the guitar is the note "A" A--2- string 3; second fret Review: third string notes G--0- string 3 (open) A--2- string 3; second fret Now that you have learned the third string notes in the open position try adding them to the notes on the first and second string next time you are practicing your guitar.
Our project today is to learn the notes on the third string in the open position.
Step 1.
Check the names of the open strings to identify the name of the third string open.
Here is a list of all the open strings of the guitar, the first string is the string closest to the floor.
E--0- string 1 B--0- string 2 G--0- string 3 D--0- string 4 A--0- string 5 E--0- string 6 As you can see the name of the third string open is "G", this gives us our starting point on the musical conveyor belt.
Step 2.
Use the musical conveyor belt to name the notes on the third string; to do this we would simply locate the letter "G" in the conveyor belt series and continue from there.
But...
before we do that we need to make a modification to our conveyor belt, if you were to look at a piano keyboard you would notice that some notes have black notes in between them whilst other notes do not.
The black notes represent sharps and flats; therefore in order for your conveyor belt system to correctly represent every note including the sharps and flats we need to convert our belt system to a 'chromatic' scale.
The term chromatic means 'color' so when we are referring to a chromatic scale we are speaking of a scale that represents all the possible musical 'colors' or 'tones'.
Review time: Here is our original musical alphabet (the white notes or natural notes on a piano keyboard).
A - B - C - D - E - F - G The same scale converted to a 'chromatic' scale (containing all the notes both black and white on the keyboard) would look like this: A - A#/Bb - B - C - C#/Db - D - D#/Eb - E - F - F#/Gb - G - G#/Ab The third string of the guitar is the note "G" G--0- string 3 (open) Step 3.
Starting on the note "G" indicated as [] in our chromatic scale move to the next 'natural' non-sharpened or flattened note, which would be the note "A" found on the third string; second fret.
A - A#/Bb - B - C - C#/Db - D - D#/Eb - E - F - F#/Gb - [G] - G#/Ab - A The third string second fret of the guitar is the note "A" A--2- string 3; second fret Review: third string notes G--0- string 3 (open) A--2- string 3; second fret Now that you have learned the third string notes in the open position try adding them to the notes on the first and second string next time you are practicing your guitar.
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