Do you know your notes?
Do you know your notes? If you don’t here’s a great exercise:
Name all the open strings on your guitar- E, A, D, G, B, E- see: that wasn’t so hard!
Name all the natural notes in the music alphabet- A B C D E F G- you are 2 for 2!
Set up columns with the open guitar strings- E A D G B E
Match the open strings with which natural note they are
B and C are 1 fret apart so C is the 1st fret on the B String so that would go under the B column and F is on the 1st fret of the E string so F would go under the E column
Now you are on your way to knowing the natural notes because every other natural note (G,A,D,E) are 2 frets away from one another so G would be under the F note on the E column on the 3rd fret and A would be underneath G on the same E column and so on until you get to the 12 fret and you are back on the E note where you started with an open string.
Repeat for the following strings
You will soon know all your natural notes!
Pat yourself on the back!
A Picture of this will really help!
