In this lesson we will talk about what a note is on guitar. A note is a symbol for a pitch, and a pitch is literally a sound wave.
A note is a symbol that represents a pitch. A note can be a music note on a staff, a key on the piano, or a string or fret position on the guitar neck.
This lesson only discusses the most basic ideas you need to know about notes on the guitar, and in the next lesson we will go into more detail about memorizing the notes.
Here are the notes on a guitar neck:
Here are notes on a piano:
The open strings on guitar are EADGBE from largest to smallest:
The notes up the Big E string Start on E and work their way up. Open notes on the guitar repeat at the 12th fret