The Notes on a Guitar
For in depth lessons, I recommend Ultimate-Guitar’s lesson section.
For some of the real basics, lets start with what notes are on a guitar. Not just a guitar, but these are the musical notes if you don’t have any music background.
Starting with ‘A’, these are the notes you’ll find in order the following.
# = sharp
b = flat
“Sharp” means one step above the listed note. So ‘A#’ is one step above ‘A’
“Flat” is one step below the note. So ‘Bb” is one step below ‘B’
A# and Bb are the exact same thing.
A, A#, B, C, C#, D, D#, E, F, F#, G, G#
After G#, the scale goes back to ‘A’.
So, on the ‘D’ string, your notes are:
Open fret: D
1st fret: D# or Eb
2nd fret: E
3rd fret: F
4th fret: F# or Gb
5th fret: G
6th fret: G# or Ab
7th fret: A
8th fret: A# or Bb
9th fret: B
10th fret: C
11th fret: C# or Db
12th fret: D
The 12th fret on a string will always play the same note as the string itself.
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