Learning notes on guitar

In order to master any musical instrument, the first thing to do is to personally test its range, to understand what needs to be done in order to extract a particular note. Guitar is not an exception. In order to play really well, you need to learn musical notation, especially if you want to create your own pieces.

If your goal is to play simple yard songs, then of course you will be helped by only 4-5 chords, a couple of uncomplicated schemes of the game in combat and voila - you are already singing your favorite motifs among friends.

Another question is when you set a goal for yourself to study the instrument, to tame your hand and masterfully extract the fascinating solos and reefs from the instrument. You do not need to shovel hundreds of tutorials, torment the teacher, the theory is miser, the main focus is on practice.

So, the range of sounds we have is located, or rather, it is sharpened in six strings and the neck itself, whose thresholds set the required frequency of a particular note when the string is pressed. On any guitars a certain number of frets are placed, with classical guitars their number most often reaches 18, with conventional acoustics or an electric guitar about 22.

The range of each of the strings affects 3 octaves, one completely and two pieces (sometimes one if it is a classic with 18 frets). On the piano, the octaves, or rather the arrangement of notes, is much easier to set up in the form of a linear sequence. On the guitar it looks much more complicated, the notes of course go consistently, but in the total mass of the strings, the octaves are placed in the form of a ladder and they are repeatedly duplicated.

For example:

1st string: second octave-third octave - fourth octave

2nd string: first, second, third octaves

3rd string: first, second, third octaves

4th string: first, second octaves

5th string: small octave, first, second octaves

6th string: small octave, first, second octaves

As you can see, the sets of notes (octaves) are repeated several times, that is, the same note can sound on different strings when pressed on different frets. It seems confusing, but on the other hand it is very convenient, which reduces in some cases the extra slip of the hand on the fingerboard, concentrating the working area in one place. Now for more details on how to determine the notes on the guitar neck. For this you need to know, first of all - three simple things:

1. The structure of the scale, the octave, that is, the sequence of notes in the scale - TO RE MI FA SAL LA SI (the child also knows this).

2. You need to know the notes on the open strings, that is, the notes that sound on the strings without pressing the string on the frets. In the standard guitars, open strings correspond to notes (from 1st to 6th) MI SI SAL RE LA MI (I personally remember this sequence as Mrs. Ol Relemi).

3. The third thing you need to know is the placement of tones and semitones between notes, as you know, notes follow each other, DO goes for DU, MI goes for RE, but there are also such notes as BEFORE or D flat Sharp means raising, flat means lowering, that is, # sharp does raise the note by half a tone, and b means lowering the note half a tone, it is easy to understand when you remember the piano, you probably noticed that the piano has white and black keys So the black keys are those sharps and flat. But such intermediate notes are not everywhere in the scale. It is necessary to remember that between notes MI and FA as well as SI and TO such intermediate notes will not, therefore it is customary to call the distance between them a semitone, but the distance between D and D, D and D, M, FA and SALT, SALT and L, L and the SI will have the distance between them in a whole tone, that is, between them there will be an intermediate note in sharp or flat. (For those who are not familiar with these nuances at all, I’ll clarify that one note can be both sharp and free at the same time, for example: it can be TO # - that is, increased TO or PEb - that is, reduced PE, which is basically the same, everything depends on the direction of the game, whether you go down the scale or up).

Now that we have taken note of these three points, we are trying to figure out where and what notes we have on the fretboard. We remember that the first open string we have has a note MI, we also remember that the distance between a MI and a FA is half a tone, so based on this we understand that if you press the first string on the first fret, we get a note of FA, then the FA will go #, SALT, SALT #, LA, LA #, Until, and so on. It is most convenient to begin to deal with the second string, because on the first fret of the second string is the note BEFORE (as we remember, the first note of the octave). Accordingly, the note to the PE will be the distance to the whole tone (that is, this is clearly one way, that is, to go to the note RE from the note to, you need to skip one way).

To fully assimilate this subject, of course, practice is needed. I recommend to start to make a convenient schedule for you.

Take a piece of paper, preferably a large one (A3 at least), draw six strips and divide them into your number of frets (do not forget the cells for open strings), enter the notes in these cells according to their location, such a cheat sheet will be very useful in your mastering of the instrument.

By the way, I can give good advice. To study the notes was not a burden, it is better when you practice with interesting material. As an example of this, I can cite a wonderful site where the author makes musical arrangements for modern and popular songs. Pavel Starkoshevsky has notes for a guitar complex, for more advanced and simple, quite accessible to beginners. Find there an arrangement for a guitar for a song that you like, and memorize the notes on the fingerboard when disassembling it. In addition, tabs are attached to each arrangement. With them, it will be easier to navigate on what fret that clamp.

The next step for you will be the development of hearing, you have to train your memory and fingers so that you can clearly remember the sound of a particular note, and the motility of your hands, without delay, find the note you need on the fingerboard.

Musical success to you!

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