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Guitar Secrets covering the 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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