Guitar Notes For Beginners
Practicing the beginner guitar notes for the open position will be very easy. In guitar jargon, the open position is the first three frets on each string. By using my successful method you can master them in 20 minutes. Let’s begin!
Here is what the open position guitar notes look like on the fretboard.
Think of a neck chart like that as a picture of your fretboard if you’re facing it coming from the front of a guitar, having the headstock pointed up. The letters on the top will be the note names of the open strings, the E at the right being your 1st string (thinnest) plus the E on the left being your 6th string (thickest). The letters on your frets will be the names of these notes at those frets.
Don't attempt to remember this all yet. That is the difficult way and I am able to show you a good way at the conclusion of this article. However, you also need to learn what these notes look like on the music staff.
In practical use, you have four parts to your note: the letter name, where it goes along the fretboard, how it is written on a page, and what it will sound like. Making sure you have the 1st 3 down is definitely essential to evade troubles in the future when teaching yourself brand new music or else trying to speak to other musicians.
Here are what the open position notes look like on your staff:
Remember our “FACE” technique for reading note names? The bottom space F is right there in the middle on the fourth string at your third fret. Moving up the scale, you’ll move forward in the alphabet. Going down the scale is backward in the alphabet.
Action Step: Let’s be sure that all of this good information is structured accurately and efficiently in your head. Accomplish these simple steps and you’ll get them all down in 20 mins. Do a single string at one time. I suggest beginning with the first string (the last measure above), but starting with the bottom is okay too.
Do these steps:
1. Speak the names for the notes while you are looking at them on a page. Be certain to say them out loud and look at the specific notes, not the tablature.
2. Now play the notes, saying the names out loud and trying to keep your eyes on your notation. By doing so you’re organising these 4 parts of the note in your mind simultaneously.
3. Do step two in both directions, down and up. (E F G and G F E)
Do your very best to not look at your guitar while doing so. You are setting up a little memory trigger by seeing the notes on the page as you play and say the notes. You’ll get some things wrong. That’s all right. Each and every mistake gets you closer to performing it right.
4. After you’ve completed every individual string, reiterate steps 1-3 using pairs of strings. 1st and 2nd. Then 2nd and 3rd, and so forth.
5. Redo them once again doing sets of 3 strings.
6. Perform them one last time with all of the six strings.
Monotonous? Most certainly. Yet that is the easiest way to totally cement the notes in your mind. By employing this easy system I know you will have all the open position beginner guitar notes thoroughly nailed in 20 mins or less. Then you'll be able to use all of them to songs!
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