Category: Notes on The Guitar Neck

After completing this lesson, you should be able to answer these questions/do these things:   Answer These What are the natural notes? Which natural notes are a half-step apart? Which natural notes are a whole step apart?...

String Hopping Challenge The purpose of this challenge is for you to get practice plucking strings that aren’t next to each other. You’ll play only open strings and won’t use your fretting hand at all. There...

Download and print this challenge to complete it by hand. The numbers under the blank diagrams below indicate the fret number. Download Challenge 1 Download Challenge 1 solution (don’t cheat!) Write in the notes along the...

Guitar Strings Let’s put all that piano stuff off to the side for a moment and focus on the guitar. We’ll get back to the piano keyboard in a little while. Just like each key on the piano has a note name, each string...

Half-Steps A step describes the distance between notes. Piano keys that are next to each other are a half-step apart. For example, E to F is a half-step because there’s no key between them. Another half-step occurs from B...

The Note C The white piano key to the left of each group of two black keys is the note C, so there are many C notes on the piano. However, each one of those C notes is a different pitch. Pitch refers to how low or high a note...

ABCDEFG There are 12 notes in Western music (music originating from the Western hemisphere of Earth). These notes are labeled using the letters A, B, C, D, E, F, G and the symbols ♭ (flat) and ♯ (sharp). Additional symbols like...

Objectives: In this chapter, you’ll learn the names of the strings on the guitar, the names of the notes at every fret, and differentiate between half-steps and whole steps. Notes on a Piano While these lessons are geared...