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Guitar Lesson: Five Ways To Learn The Notes On The Guitar

To find your way around the fretboard of thea great way to learn the notes and quite
guitar is very important. It will help you inamusing too. Let's use the note G. You'll
guitar improvisation, sight reading, and infind it on the third fret on string six.
understanding chords and more. In this guitarWhere can you find the note G on string five?
lesson we will explore five ways to learn theRight,  on  fret  10.
notes  on  the  guitar  fretboard.
The G notes on the strings from the sixth
How  much  do  you  need  to  practice?string to the first are on the following
frets:
A couple of minutes a day with one of these
exercises will help you improve your skills3  10  5  0  8  3
in finding the notes. In this guitar lesson
we will focus on the fretboard and not theYou can make an exercise of this by playing
actual  guitar  sheet  music.the G notes from string six down to the first
string and back again. Try this with other
Learning to read guitar sheet music will benotes  too.  For  example  E.
much easier when you master the notes on the
guitar keyboard. I have divided this articleIf you devote a couple of minutes a day on
in five lessons that you can alternatethis exercise you will soon be able to play
between until you master the guitarthe sequence of strings fast, spotting the
fretboard.notes  without  effort.
Guitar  lesson  1Guitar  lesson  3
Learn the basic notes, the notes of a C majorLearn the names of the notes on a fret. We
scale (the white keys on the piano) on everycan start with the open strings starting from
string. Let's test this on the first stringthe sixth string to the first. The names will
on your guitar. The first note is an E. Yoube:
will find F on the first fret. G on fret
three. A on fret five. B on fret seven. C onE  A  D  G  B  E
fret eight, D on fret ten and the next E on
fret  twelve.Now, play the notes on the third fret in the
same order. At the same time try to say the
The sixth string on the guitar is an E too.names of the notes aloud. I will help you
It's just two octaves lower but you will findthis time only by writing the note names
the same note names on this string on thedown:
same  frets  two  octaves  lower.
G  C  F  Bb  D  G
On the second string you will find the notes
on the following frets:fret 0-B, 1-C, 3-D,Try this exercise on different frets and say
5-E,  6-F,  8-G,  10-A,  12-Bthe  names  of  the  notes  aloud.
On the third guitar string you'll find theGuitar  lesson  4
following  notes:
Learn the notes in a chord. Play any chord
0-G,  2-A,  4-B,  5-C,  7-D,  9-E,10-F,  12-Gand name the notes aloud from string six to
string one. This guitar exercise will also
I guess you can figure out the names of thehelp you to understand how the chords are
notes on the next strings by yourself butbuilt.
here they are in case you will double check.
The  fourth  string:Guitar  lesson  5
0-D,  2-E,  3-F,  5-G,  7-A,  9-B, 10-C, 12-DIn this guitar lesson you will use your
ability to create random notes on the guitar.
The notes on the fifth string or theAs you play notes on your guitar at random
A-string:you  also  say  the  note  names  aloud.
0-A,  2-B,  3-C,  5-D,  7-E,  8-F, 10-G, 12-APlay in an even pace, just fast enough to
make this exercise a challenge for your mind
I would suggest that you concentrate on oneso your mind will concentrate on the task and
string at a time and learn the names as younot  wander  off.
play the notes on your guitar maybe by saying
the  note  names  aloud  as  you  play.All of these small guitar lessons can be used
together with a companion. One playing the
Guitar  lesson  2notes on the guitar and the other saying the
note names.
Learn a specific note on all strings. This is



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