What Are the Notes on a Guitar?


It seems very easy to play guitar but it’s not that easy, to play guitar properly if you don't know about notes. In this article we are going to talk about all the notes on a guitar. Let’s keep reading further


Take a look at all the guitar tones possible on a standard 6-string 12-fret guitar. Let’s start with the open string and continue with the rest of the notes on the fretboard



Notes of Open Guitar Strings


If you look at the guitar’s fretboard from the top, if you would play each string open then it is E,A,D,G,B, and E. (from the thickest to the thinnest). A good acronym for memorizing open string notes is "Eddie Ate Dynamite, Good Bye Eddie".


Guitar strings are tuned to these tones (E, A, D, G, B, E from thickest to thinnest) in standard tuning. Same with any 6-string guitar (6-string acoustic or 6-string electric).


As you become more and more familiar with how each tuned open string should sound, your musical ear begins to develop. Over time, you'll be able to tell if the strings are slightly out of tune just by listening.


Guitar Fretboard Notes


At first look, it may seem that a standard 12-fret guitar has hundreds of notes, But in reality, this isn't the case. Only 37 notes (maximum) can be played on a 12 fret guitar. There are 12 notes multiplied by 3 octaves and the first note. (12 × 3) + 1 = 37. This means that on a 12-fret guitar, every fret has a 3-octave chromatic E scale. Nothing more, nothing less. Since the guitar is a two-dimensional instrument, it has many notes that repeat multiple times.


If you have multiple strings that are tuned a few notes apart (the main difference being the octave), you'll notice a lot of overlapping notes as soon as you start moving the frets. You can play each note in multiple different ways, and you can cover every single one of the 37 notes your guitar can play by going through an E chromatic scale, note by note, up three octaves.


Wrap up


Congratulations, if you read this far, you've learned quite a bit about all of the possible notes on a guitar.


Learn more about the notes and guitar with Billy B, the guitar teacher providing guitar lessons for decades in Edmonton. 


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