Beginner Guitar Lesson #5 - Guitar Notes, Fretboard and Tuning Your Guitar

[TomFontana]

@docranirock The first step is to know them in sequence, but afterwards, you need to know them by heart, even if you start at fret 12, fret 7, or any fret. A good way to learn them is by locating them by sound, so for example, find all the C sharps on the fretboard, than all the G notes, etc. It will be hard at first, you'll be counting all the notes, but after a lot of practice, you'll memorize their locations.

[docranirock]

@TomFontana i will do it! thanks alot tom ur my teacher ur the one :P did u see my new video?? could u watch it if u have free time.. and tell me what do u think?

[johnmun100]

what do you prefer tom,tuner or your tecnuiqe?

[TomFontana]

@johnmun100 If I'm lazy, or I hear that all of the strings are out of tune, I'll go for the electric tuner, but if it's just if the strings need just a bit of tuning, I'll go the manual way.

[johnmun100]

my guitar has a tuner.what do you prefer to use tom ,tuner or your technuiqe?

[loltbsucksalot]

Hey Tom, ive been wondering about my strumming, sorry it's the wrong video but I had this question and this was next on my lessons. Whenever I strum upward the sound seems different, I am using my fingers to strum, would using a pick solve this problem? And in general, which do you prefer to use, pick or fingers.

[2lwa7esh]

i know them by heart what then ? :P

[2lwa7esh]

tom this lesson helps me for tuning my guitar only? what can i do with these???

[TomFontana]

@2lwa7esh This lesson is about how to learn the notes on the fretboard as well, which is sort of related to tuning your guitar, that's why I put them together.

[HellsHighwayTrooper]

wud i need to go to the next string or what>?

[HellsHighwayTrooper]

how many frets wud i need to move up to get 2 pitches higher ect.?

[ciaramaglia01]

i dont get it how do solo say with a petonic scale how do you stay out of box formation move it around and still sound in key

[silentkilla238]

U mean B and E right? And it's just that it's alot of notes to remember lol and very confusing I'll look at it again when I get there still trying to memorize lesson 2 chords ATM

[TomFontana]

Nope, lower strings as in lower pitch strings, so the low E and A.

[silentkilla238]

okay so i'll just learn the low E and A. and thats it right i dont need to learn all the other strings just the fret notes on low e and a :D i think i can try to remember it. so whats this for? learning the fret notes

[silentkilla238]

Holy crap I'm sorry but I got confused and omg it's gonna be hard to remember all those notes for the fret board holy crap

[TomFontana]

:-) Holy .....

Watch the video again to learn the relationship between the strings and start memorizing the notes on the lower strings, thats all you'll have to remember.

[silentkilla238]

so im thinking G and B are not important to remember.. right?

[TomFontana]

Yep, You can tell the notes on string D G and B after memorizing the notes on the low E and A, so basically these are the 2 strings you need to memorize by heart.

After a while (quite a while :-) ), you'll remember the notes on all of the strings naturally, but you need to work towards it.

A good way to practice the notes is through identifying the notes you need to play chords. So find different voicings for C major, A 7, and other chords.

[nirvanadude1990]

@silentkilla238 its onlu abcde

[GuitaristAzza]

I got how to learn the E, A strings but from there you lost me, could you please send me a message that explains it in detail so I can understand, great lesson anyway.

[MDDReaper]

Cheers for the lesson 8)

[TomFontana]

my pleasure!

[nathan6t9r]

thats a Greg bennet guitar lol

[GaryLawrence0]

Hey, what kind of shirt is that?