Learning the guitar fretboard and strings
In our first homework assignment you
were asked to fill in all the notes of the fretboard. Your illustration should
have looked something like the one below. Our illustration on the homework did
not have this many frets though.
In our next lesson we need to work on the open strings. Your guitar whether
Spanish, Guild acoustic, Les Paul, electric, old or new should have six strings.
Each string like each key on the piano has a particular purpose.
The Low E string or Fattest
string when picked open (not fretting it) should sound the Low E note or
tone. However, that's only true if your guitar is properly tuned. You will need
to read up on tuning your guitar.
Tuning is very important, so in this lesson we will cover the six strings,
their names and placement.
An open A tuning source has been included in the tuning chapter. You would use
this source to tune the A string. Then you would read up
on tuning the remaining
strings.
I would like for everyone to review the lessons covering the
guitar
fretboard and strings.
Assignments:
- Read on tuning the guitar and attempt to tune your guitar.
It does take time to learn this.
- It is highly recommended that you purchase our CD
ROM a Visual Learning Experience. It has so much more included, progressions with audio, scales,
techniques to construct scales and much more.
- Memorize each string and placement.
- Look over the illustrations on the guitar
fretboard and strings and see how and why they are illustrated the way they
are.
- Use the illustration below to fill in all of the notes on the Low
E string.
- Use the illustration below to fill in all of the notes on the High
E string.
- Once the notes are filled in, circle all of the A
C D E
and G notes. These are the notes that make up the Am pentatonic
scale. A few notes have been
filled in to get you started.
- Listen to the intro to our original slow
song you will learn from tablature later down the road.
- Listen to our slow
song beefed up a little for the electric
guitar. This is played in Am pentatonic, root note fret. The root
note fret is the 5th fret for Am pentatonic.
- Always use these blank guitar fretboard
illustrations to fill in the notes of each scale you are working on.
- Lesson 3
Good luck,
From the Jam Room
