Notes on the Guitar Neck
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The guitars’ strings are stretched out along your guitars neck, and along the neck are “frets”, as you press your finger down in between two of these frets you make the guitar play a different “note”. So why do you need to learn all the notes on the guitar neck?
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To properly understand how the guitar creates chords, and how scales are formed along your guitars neck you’ll first need to know the notes on the guitar neck.
On a 6 string guitar with standard tuning (90% of the market) the notes on the guitar neck start with an E on the top (thick) string when the string is played open (no fingers pressing down).
If you press down on the first fret on the top E string you’ll now be playing an F, this is because as you move one step up the fret board, you also move one note up the musical scale.
Take a look at the standard 12-step musical scale (starting on E)
E - F - F# - G - G# - A - A# - B - C - C# - D - D# - then back to E
The notes on the guitar neck for the top E string look exactly like this pattern, and repeat when you get past the 12th fret.
The next string down is usually tuned to A, so that when you play it open the A note will sound. Try applying the above pattern to the A string, remember than when you press down on the first fret you’re moving one step up the musical scale, in this case you’ll move up to an A Sharp (A#).
Hope this clears up some of the questions you might have had about notes on the guitar neck.
