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?
- What’s the purpose of ♭?
- What’s the purpose of ♯?
- Give an example of enharmonic note names.
- Identify each guitar string by letter name.
- Identify each guitar string by number name.
- Identify the low string on the guitar.
- Identify the high string on the guitar.
Play These
- Differentiate between moving the fretting hand up the neck versus down the neck. (Place your fretting hand at about the 7th fret and move your had up the neck. Then go back to the 7th fret and move your hand down the neck.)
- Differentiate between moving the fretting hand up the strings versus down the strings. (Place your fretting hand at about the 7th fret on the 4th string and then move your hand up the strings. Then go back to the 7th fret on the 4th string and move your hand down the strings.)
- Play every fret on every string up to the 17th fret, naming the notes as you go. This is the same as the first part of Challenge 1. (You may not have them all memorized at a glance, but you should be able to figure them out.)
- Play a specific letter name note somewhere on every string. This is the same as the second part of Challenge 1. (For example: play an E, now play another E on a different string, now play another E on a different string, now play another E on a different string, …)
- Play the ‘String Hopping Challenge’ from Challenge 2.