![]() It’s the same note as the string played open. ![]() The 12th fret always starts the pattern all over again. Sometimes the same scale can be named two different ways. There is a C major scale, a C major scale, a D major scale, and so on. For instance, there are 12 major scales each built on one of music’s 12 notes. For any pattern there are 12 possible root notes. You can locate any note on a given string if you know the name of the open string, because the notes always follow each other in the same order.įor example, the notes on the A string are as follows:Ī(string played open)-A#/Bb,B,C,C#/Db,D,D#/Eb,E,F,F#/Gb,G,G#/Ab Any scale or pattern can be started on any one of the 12 notes of the musical alphabet. The language of music was created with the piano’s keyboard in mind instead of the guitar’s fretboard.Įach fret on a guitar is a note. The reasons for arranging the notes this way can be explained by looking at a picture of a keyboard. The white keys are the primary notes and the black keys are the secondary notes. You’ll notice that there is no B#/Cb or E#/Fb notes. What I am showing you in the boxes above is really just an easy way of looking at the familiar alphabet and how it relates to the guitar. ![]() ![]() We’ll get into that later on in the course. With each string comes a new beginning to the order so to speak. Important: What you see above is the ALPHABETICAL listing of the notes on the guitar. The notes will always follow each other in this order. ![]()
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