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Before you go any further, you need to familiarize yourself with guitar string notes. Without knowing the string names and notes, we won’t be able to learn any other guitar notes!
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Most guitars have 6 strings, each with a different note. In standard tuning, and from low to high, the guitar string notes are: E, A, D, G, B, E. This is constant across different brands and guitar types. Whether you have a Gibson or a Martin, an Ibanez or Epiphone, the notes remain the same.
There are a few phrases you can use to remember each string name: Eddie Ate Dynamite, Good Bye Eddie, or, Elvis Always Dug Good Banana Eating.
Notice that the strings are arranged from thickest (lowest note) to thinnest (highest note). There are plenty of other tunings, called alternate tunings (open C, open G, drop D, etc). For now, let’s stick with standard tuning.
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The best way to remember the guitar string notes and their names is to create a mnemonic device. Think of it as a way to help you remember which letters go where. From low to high, the guitar string notes are: E, A, D, G, B, E. So a good saying is: Eddie Ate Dynamite Good Bye Eddie.
There are tons of different mnemonic devices you can use. Shoot, you can even try creating one yourself! Try to make it
Note: The guitar notes for the strings are the same whether you play electric, acoustic, rock, bluegrass, or metal — rock on!
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Now that you know string names, you can use this trick I teach inside our Bonus Guide: Free Video & PDF Guide – “Find Any Note Without Memorizing the Fretboard” to find any note.
Here’s an example of some tablature. Check out these links to learn how to read guitar tabs, understand guitar tab symbols, as well as some acoustic guitar tabs for beginners.
As you read the tab from left to right, notice how there’s only one note at a time. This is an example of single guitar notes.
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As we said earlier, chords are like words: you create a chord when you take notes and play many of them at once. There are also different types of chords; for example, ordinary chords and power chords. Check out my lesson if you want a quick rundown of chord diagrams!
You strum all of the strings at once when you play the D chord. Every note is played at the same time to create the chord.
Chords have a richer, fuller sound than guitar notes. Check out this lesson to learn the most essential guitar chords for beginners.
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It can be incredibly overwhelming when you first start playing guitar. I have a few suggestions to help process the barrage of information out there, but one thing is for sure…
If you want to work on guitar notes or solos, check out my lesson on how to solo on guitar – even over the blues (yes, I’ll explain the blues, too!). I also have lessons on how to finger pick and different strumming patterns you can try.
Guitar notes can help you understand the fretboard and the music in general, but it is difficult to play songs just with guitar notes. Here’s why…
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Additionally, playing chords helps build your finger strength. As you play along with songs or in a jam group, you’ll build up your strength and be able to play for longer periods.
After you feel comfortable playing chords and understand time, rhythm, and musical structure, you can start dabbling in more theory and scales.
Bonus Guide: Free Video & PDF Guide – “Find Any Note Without Memorizing the Fretboard” Guitar Notes in Relation to the Fretboard
How To Learn The Important Guitar Notes For Beginners
I will talk about the fretboard a little more to better understand guitar notes. While you don’t have to know the following information, it will deepen your understanding of the guitar.
All instruments rely on a musical alphabet that creates a common language for all musicians. The good news is that the musical alphabet only uses 12 notes — unlike the English alphabet, which uses 26 letters!
In the example where I wrote out two ways to talk about the musical alphabet, all letters without sharps or flats stayed the same. But for A#, the corresponding flat is Bb. This means that those two notes are the same.
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Another way to think about this is about telling time. If it’s 7:30 a.m., you could say it is “30 ’til 8:00.” You could also say it’s “half-past 7:00.” They’re saying the same things in different ways.
While I showed you two different ways of looking at the musical alphabet with all the guitar notes, you’ll most likely see the alphabet written with flats and sharps.
These are the only cases where there aren’t flats or sharps that can be attached to notes. Instead, B# is essentially C. Never refer to C as Cb/B#.
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As I’ve explained in other lessons, every fret on your guitar represents a guitar note. As each fret goes up by one number, you move up the musical alphabet by one space.
Think of the open string you pluck as starting at 0. From there, you move up one space in the musical alphabet.
If you pluck the low E string (the thickest string) and move up one fret, you’ll be playing an F note. Remember that there’s no sharp or flat note between E and F!
Guitar Chords Chart For Beginners
As you move up one fret at a time and pluck each guitar note, you’ll hear the pitch get higher as you move up the fretboard. Here’s the full order of notes you play if you go all the way to the 12th fret:
Once you hit the 12th fret, you successfully played a full octave. In those 12 notes, you’ve played the entire musical alphabet!
If you want to help solidify your understanding of guitar notes in relation to the fretboard, try saying the notes out loud as you play them. So when you’re on the 5th fret of the low E string, you audibly say “A.”
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If you look at the neck of the guitar — and the side of the neck that faces you — you’ll notice little dots or markings embedded into the neck. These are called fret markers.
If you ever lose your place on the fretboard, you can use the fret markers to guide you toward the guitar note you want to play.
Guitar notes that do not have sharps or flats attached to them are called naturals. Naturals within the musical alphabet are A, B, C, D, E, F, and G.
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The notes are called naturals because they have no sharps or flats. As you try to find naturals on the fretboard, there are a few different rules that you can keep in mind.
Fortunately, we know that the low E string is natural. That means we have to move either a whole-step or half-step to get to the next natural.
As you continue to move up the neck, just remember the rules we laid out earlier, and be sure to mind the half step between B and C!
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Once you feel comfortable working on the low E string, I want you to try finding all the natural notes on the A string, the D string, the G string, and the B string.
As you look for the natural guitar notes, notice that the placement of the naturals changes depending on the strings you use.
We covered naturals, sharps, and flats when finding guitar notes on your fretboard. Now, I want to focus more on sharps and flats.
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I’ve noticed in teaching beginners about guitar notes that it might take a few explanations to make an idea snap into focus.
Now that I’ve firmly established what natural notes are, we can think of sharps and flats as the space between natural notes.
Do you remember that whole step between A and B? Well, if you only move a half step (move in between two naturals), then you’ve found a sharp or flat!
Guitar Notes Are Simply A Way To Represent Sound
Now that you have a better idea of guitar notes and how your knowledge can help your playing, perhaps you’re ready to take the next step in your guitar journey.
Do you remember the workshop I told you about earlier? Look, I won’t be offended if you can’t make it…but I’d love to see you there.
My name is Tony Polecastro and I’m an acoustic guitar geek. I LOVE the idea of learning guitar online but I was fed up with the overwhelming, “more is better” approach that takes the fun out of learning guitar…this is my journey
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