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Sunday, 24 November 2013

Guitar Workshop e102 : Knowing the notes on your fretboard & Tuning your guitar

Hey guys,

Lets take a look at what notes are there on the fret-board. It is very important to know which fret position means which note.  There are 12 notes that you can play on your guitar. Of course these notes start appearing over various octaves. These are:
A,A#,B,C,C#,D,D#,E,F,F#,G,G#

These would be read like, A , A sharp, B, C, C sharp and so forth
Note that we don't have a B sharp or an E sharp
You can also write it as:
A,BbB,C,DbD,EbE,F,GbG,Ab

These would be read as A, B flat, C, D flat etc.
The important thing to notice here is that A sharp = B flat
Now take a look at the below diagram to know the positions of these notes on your guitar string. If you refer to the e101 article, there we have already learnt which string is tuned to which frequency or note. Now using that lets find out the positioning of the remainder of the notes on the fretboard


Take a look at this link below to know how to tune your guitar. For all guitarists it is very important to know how to tune your guitar because the strings have a terrible tendency to fall out of tune.


You can always go and buy a tuner from the store so that its easier for you to tune your guitar. But I would highly recommend that you first try to tune on your own. This will help you get your ear acclimatized to the notes first.


Swagi

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