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

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Knowing the notes on your fretboard is a very important part of being able to play the guitar. This lesson is dedicated not to playing notes, but rather getting to know them, where they are, why they are there, and how to tune your guitar.

By watching this video guitar lesson, you'll:

- know the relationship between the strings on your guitar
- learn an easy way of knowing where each notis on the fretboard
- learn how to tune your guitar with an electric tuner or by ear

Practice all the things you've been learning in guitar lessons 1-4, and learn the
theory from this video as well.

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[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.

[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.

[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?

[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.

[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