There comes a time when every beginner guitar player will need to consider how to level up their playing skills. Sure, it’s easy to learn how to play songs by reading chord charts and guitar tablature. And for some players, that’s more than enough.
Others may want to explore all that playing guitar has to offer and further develop their skills to an advanced level. One of the best ways to kickstart your guitar playing into high gear is to learn all of the notes on the fretboard, also known as the fingerboard. Knowing what notes you are playing is a large part of having a greater understanding of overall music theory. Spending some time learning the guitar fretboard and notes is a good way to go when moving up to the next phases of your playing career.
Before we get into what we can do to make learning the notes on the fretboard a lot easier, we need to take a look at a complete guitar fretboard diagram, as shown below:
Steps To Learn The Fretboard, Fast — Pathfinder Guitar
You might already have noticed that some notes seem to have two names. You’ll see that each one has a note with a sharp (#) and a note with a flat (b). This is because these notes are ‘in between’ notes that are identified with just one letter.
For example, look at the note on the fifth fret of the A string—it’s a D. Go two frets up to the seventh fret and you have an E. So what about the note in the middle on the sixth fret? How to read this note depends on the context and point of view. If you take the E note and lower it one fret, you have an Eb. At the same time, if you take the D note and raise it one fret you have a D#. Same note, same string, same location on the fretboard. The point is that both names mean the same note.
The ‘Chromatic Scale’ in traditional Western music theory simply refers to every one of the 12 available notes. Starting with a C note the scale is spelled out as follows:
Sharp And Flat Notes On Guitar — Guitar Music Theory Lessons By Ry Naylor
The pattern will repeat itself over and over no matter what note you start on and each note is one fret apart.
Pick a note—any note. Let’s say you play the note on the third fret of the low E string. According to the chart we just looked at, that’s a G. So what would the note on the sixth fret be? If you know the chromatic scale, you’ll know that three notes up from a G is an A#/Bb.
Since each note is one fret apart, it’s simple—the note on the sixth fret on the low E string is A#/Bb. Once you are able to memorize the chromatic scale, knowing the guitar fretboard will come as easy as that.
Guitar Fretboard Notes & Chord Poster
An ‘octave’ is a note that has the same letter name as another note. The big difference here is that the pitch is one octave higher (or lower, depending on where you start).
Let’s look at an example. Play an open D string. Now play the note on the twelfth fret of the D string. Looking at our fretboard diagram, you’ll see that both of them are D notes—it’s just that the one on the twelfth fret has a higher pitch.
How does this help you to navigate the fretboard? Let’s say that you know that the note which is four frets up from the open D string is an F#/Gb. The key here is that the same pattern is true no matter what D note on the fretboard you have started from. There also is a D note on the third fret of the B string. Guess what the note is when you play four frets up to the seventh fret? You guessed it—it’s an F#/Gb as well!
Printable Guitar Fretboard Notes
Taking it one small step at a time when memorizing notes on the guitar fretboard can keep things from getting too overwhelming. Don’t put too much pressure on yourself! What many guitarists will do instead is focus on memorizing the notes on the low E and A strings. So start with the two lowest strings and work your way up from there.
Why? Because many of the chords that you will play (particularly barre chords) have their root note on one of those two strings. Once you have it firmly in your head that, for example, the note on the eighth fret of the low E string is a C note, you’ll know where to play the right fingering for a C chord. The same is true for the note on the third fret of the A string—that’s a C note too, in case you were wondering.
From there, it’s a matter of expanding your knowledge of patterns. Here’s an eye opener for you—once you have the notes memorized on the low E string, take a look at the high E. Notice anything? The note names for the corresponding frets are the same, but they are two octaves higher.
The Fun Way To Learn The Names Of The Notes On Your Guitar
As you can see, much of learning the fretboard involves memorizing simple patterns. It sounds more challenging than it really is and with a little time, you’ll know your way around the frets like a pro. So keep practicing and exploring that fretboard!
The best tip we can give overall is to not let yourself get overwhelmed. Take your time, don’t rush things and make sure that you really understand a concept or a particular pattern before you move on to something bigger.
Learning the notes on the guitar fretboard is the key to playing at a higher skill level. Any effort you put into it will be time well-spent and your playing will do nothing but get better and better as your knowledge grows.
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None of my teachers ever showed me this for some reason. So I make sure all my students know about this easy guitar fretboard reading trick.
You’ve probably seen those posters of the whole guitar fretboard that label every note on the neck. Those are mostly great for giving you a migraine headache. The first time I saw one I almost stuck my guitar in the closet to go back to piano.
Learning The Fretboard
There IS an easier way, my friend! As I’ve mentioned in previous articles, our brains are not capable of memorizing that many pieces of information in order. You’d have to be an idiot savant to do so. Since you and I are both lacking in the “savant” department, we’re going to use a very easy system to read the guitar fretboard instead.
Natural – A natural note is one that does not have a sharp or flat on it. It’s just the letter (ie. C, F, A, etc).
Half Step – A half step is a movement of one fret on the fretboard. From the first to second fret, for example.
How To Memorize The Notes On The Fretboard (two Methods)
Whole Step – A whole step is a movement of two frets on the fretboard. Like from the first to third fret.
Let’s look at a C major scale. If you don’t know what that is yet, don’t sweat it. You don’t need to. The scale looks like this: C D E F G A B C.
We need to know where the half steps and whole steps in this scale are. If you’re not familiar with scales, that’s totally fine. Take my word for it at this point. Everything in this scale is a whole step, EXCEPT between E and F, and B and C. Those are the only half steps.
The Most Effective Way To Memorise Notes On The Guitar Fretboard — Guitar Nutrition
Now we’ll apply that pattern to the sixth string, low E, the thickest one. If you don’t know the names of the open strings yet check out my article, “Guitar Notes For Beginners”. If E is the open string and it’s a half step to F as we learned above, the F is at the first fret. We moved up one fret for the half step.
F to G is a whole step, so go from the first to third fret. Try finding the rest of the natural notes on the 6th string using the combination of half steps and whole steps you learned above.
Do not memorize that list above. That’s the hard way. Simply play through each of
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