Welcome to video five in the Beginner Guitar Quick-Start Series. In this lesson, we’re going to learn the names of the open strings on the guitar. When I first learned to play guitar, I avoided this for a long time because I didn’t really have a good way to remember the names of the strings. This lesson is an important one because you’ll soon be tuning your guitar, but also because you need to know the names as you start learning the notes up and down the guitar fretboard.
Let’s quickly recap the numbering system for the strings of the guitar. The first string is the thinnest string, and you’ll count the strings in order, so the thickest string is your sixth string. Like the numbering system for the strings, learning the names is a bit counterintuitive because most people learn the strings from the sixth string to the first string.
The name of the thickest string, the sixth string, is E. Moving on, the fifth string is A, fourth is D, third is G, second is B, and then the first string is E.
Naming The Open Guitar Strings
Now you’re probably thinking there’s no way you can remember all these strings, and that’s what I thought when I started too. Eventually, I decided to come up with a silly saying to help me remember the names of the strings: Eat All Day, Go to Bed Early.
I’m sure this sounds silly to you, because it kind of is, but you can use any saying that helps you remember the string names. The other thing that will help you remember the names is realizing the outside two strings are both E, so you only have to remember the four strings on the inside.
Knowing the names of the strings by memory will help you out in future lessons, especially in the next lesson where we go over how to tune the guitar. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us for help.Knowing the names of strings on a guitar is very essential and one of the first basics you need to teach to your students. It’s part of the communication between you and your students. For example: If you say : “Put your pointer finger in the 2nd fret on the A string.” they have to know what you mean. Before teaching guitar chords to kids, you have to make sure that they know the guitar string names.
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Or imagine you need to tune your guitar. In this case you have to know the names of the strings too. Same applies, when changing guitar strings. It’s quite helpful to know the string names by heart and not to look them up everytime you need them.
First thing to know is that a standard guitar has 6 strings. Sure, there are also 12 string guitars but let’s stick to the standard. Each of the string has a name and a number.
The guitar has 6 strings and many guitarist use instead of the string names rather the string numbers. We count them from the bottom to the top. This works also great when communicating with your students but using the string names is much better. Why? Because in this way your students are aware of the notes that they are playing.
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The easiest way is to use a rhyme. You can come up with your own rhyme or you create one with your students togethers. When teaching guitar for kids, try to make it visual. Draw a guitar neck on a paper with the strings and name them with your students. Let your students draw or paint something next to it to reflect the rhyme.
I created some free printables for your guitar lessons in order to support this part of your course. You can use the color version to print it out as a poster and hang it on the wall of your classroom. The black and white version is perfect as a handout and can be used for homework. Ask your young students to color it out and at the same time they will memorize the string names.It is important to note that the thickest string is considered the lowest string in terms of pitch, not physical placement on the guitar.
This can sometimes be confusing for those who are just starting out. They may mistakenly believe that lowest refers to the string that is closest to the ground.
Open Chords & Slide Rule Charts
The lowest string is referred to as the E string, and the highest string is also labeled as an E. If you start from the 6th string (low E) closest to you, the guitar strings are named in the following order:
It’s not that hard if you take a little time to memorize it… and it’s important. It really is helpful for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is to make it easier and faster when someone is explaining where to put you fingers on the guitar neck.
It's the difference between “put your fingers there and there… no, not there… THERE”, and “put your first finger on the B string, second fret“.
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So one way to learn string names on guitar is to quiz yourself a little bit at a time. Start by naming a string, then identify it. You can also try breaking it up into groups. I don’t expect you remember it yet.
If you do this a little bit each day for a week, you’ll have it down in no time. At some point, try quizzing yourself on all of the strings going up and down.
Another aspect of this is that some people refer to the strings by numbers. So instead of calling the strings “A” or “low E”, they’ll refer to them as “5th string” or “6th string”.
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Another way the memorize the guitar string names is to use a mnemonic… aphrase as a crutch. One popular one isE lephantsA ndD onkeysG rowB igE ars.
Even though it's a little tedious at first I find the repetition method I described above more effective. Like training wheels on a bicycle, you have to know when to let go of the crutch to gain real facility.
The first fret is the space between the nut and the first metal bar on your fretboard; then count up from there.
String Letters, String Numbers, And Fret Numbers
Some guitars have dots on the side of the neck and on the fretboard to help you see when you’re playing. Normally on an acoustic guitar there are dots on the 3rd, 5th, 9th and 12th frets.
Next we want to number the fingers on your left hand. Your index finger is the “first finger”, middle is second, and so on.
Your fourth finger is sometimes just called your little finger, or pinky. First, second and third fingers are the most common that you’ll see for numbering.
The Names Of The Strings
I encourage you to practice a little bit of this everyday. Go through the names of guitar strings, the numbers of the strings and give yourself a little test.
Name a string and a fret and a finger to use and see if you can place it, or ask a friend to quiz you!
In the next lesson I’ll go over some very practical ways to help you to hold the guitar properly. Head on over to… >> Lesson #4 How to Hold A Guitar
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