In this lesson on the guitar fretboard we talk about how to find any note on the neck of the guitar. We will go over exactly how to find any note, and I’ll share some strategies for how to start memorizing the notes on the fretboard.
The most important things to take away from this video is the names of the open strings on guitar – EADGBE, the musical alphabet – ABCDEFG, and the spaces between the notes.
One easy way to remember the string names is with a mnemonic. “Even Average Dogs Get Bones Eventually” is one, but we go over a few in the video.
The first thing to know is that there are sharp notes or flat notes between some of the notes, and other notes have no space.
There is no space between E and F, and there is no space between B and C. All of the other notes will have one note between them, and it will be a sharp or flat note.
Sharps and flats represent the exact same tone, but the name can change depending on what key you are in. As a beginner, it’s easiest to remember that one fret lower on the guitar is flat, and one fret higher on the guitar is sharp.
One way to begin to learn the fretboard is to memorize small groupings of notes
Another way to learn the notes on the guitar is to recognize the visual pattern of the location of a note.
