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Guitar Fretboard
The image below is a picture of your guitar fretboard. To understand how this
diagram works, you need to hold the guitar out in front of you. The strings on
the guitar will be directed towards your face. This view should be the exact
view that the image below depicts. Look at the image below and visualize that
the picture is your guitar facing you.
Each dot on the guitar fretboard represents the different frets on the
guitar, look below. The first dot is on the 3rd fret, the second dot is on
the 5th fret, the third dot is on the 7th fret and so on all the way up
the fretboard. Most guitars have these dots, but some may not.
The Numbers below the fret board are for a quick reference for each
fret and are numbered 1 through 19. Count the frets on your guitar,
some guitars have as many as 24 frets. Only 19 frets have been shown
on the picture above, but that's all we need for now. Just a
quick secret, every note on a string repeats itself every 12t
frets. Every scale pattern also repeats itself every 12 frets as
well. We'll learn more about that later.
You
may have noticed that there are 6 strings on the guitar. Each
string is labeled on the image above as E
A
D G
B
E. These are the 6 strings that make up
the guitar.
You may have noticed that there are two E strings? One is the
Low E which is the Red E and is the largest
string, look above. The other is the High E which is the thinnest string, check
that string out. Each string is at times referenced by number in our lessons.
These numbers are standard throughout the industry and they are as follows:
|
High E string |
|
1st string |
|
Thinnest |
|
B string |
|
2nd string |
|
|
|
G string |
|
3rd string |
|
|
|
D string |
|
4th string |
|
|
|
A string |
|
5th
string |
|
|
|
Low E |
|
6th
string |
|
Fattest |
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