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Guitar for Beginners
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The Twelve Half Steps and Basic Notation
While you don’t need to be an expert on music theory to play guitar, it is important to know the basic building blocks of music. With this understanding, music will no longer be shrouded in mystery or complexity. This lesson presents fundamental musical ideas in a fun, non-intimidating way.
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Thaddeus HogarthAssociate Professor
Guitar
[MUSIC]
So now I'm going to give you some notes on the fretboard that you should memorize.
And It's a good method if you start memorizing these notes that I'm
going to give you.
Then you can use your knowledge of half steps, whole steps, and
that little half step wheel that we had before.
To figure out a lot of the other notes, but
you should start by memorizing these notes.
And I'm going to give you the notes on the 6 string,
then I'm going to give you the same notes on the first string.
Because this first string is also an E string,
two octaves higher than the lower E string.
And I'm also going to give you the notes that are on the fifth string.
Now there's a reason why we're doing this.
But when we talk about chords and
movable chords, you'll see how this knowledge will help you.
So, we're going to start with our sixth string which is our E string.
[SOUND] Open string, as we know, that's a little bit of a review.
If we move up a half step, the first note here [SOUND] is an F.
Now we're going to move up two more half steps, or a whole step and
this note here will be a G, [SOUND] the next letter note in the alphabet.
Then move up two more half steps and we're going to wind up at an A.
[SOUND] And move up another two half steps, that's a B.
[SOUND] Now, we're only going to move up a half step now.
One half step [SOUND] and we're going to get to a C, two more half steps.
We're on D [SOUND] and another two half steps, we're back at [SOUND] an E,
which is an octave higher than the open E that we started with.
[SOUND] Recap real quickly.
Open E, [SOUND] F, [SOUND] another whole step,
G [SOUND], another whole step, [SOUND] A.
Another whole step, [SOUND] B, now a half step, [SOUND] that's a C.
Move up two more half steps or another whole step [SOUND] that's our D,
and then now we're back [SOUND] at our E.
[SOUND] So you're going to start off by memorizing that.
And the great thing about it, is once you have that memorized, then it's very for
you to the same thing on the top string, which is our first string.
So we're going to start with our first string, open E,
[SOUND] going to move up a half step to F.
[SOUND] Another whole step to get to G,
[SOUND] another whole step we get to A,
[SOUND] another whole step [SOUND] we're up to B.
Now we only need to move a half step to get to C,
[SOUND] another whole step to get to D.
[SOUND] And then one more whole step and we are up [SOUND] again,
at an E which is one octave higher than the open [SOUND] E.
[SOUND] Now obviously you'll realize that the relationship between the frets and
the notes on both of these strings are exactly the same.
So we're able to play both of these open strings, the E [SOUND] on the bottom, and
this E [SOUND] which is two octaves higher on the top.
So string number one [SOUND] and string number six.
[SOUND] Now if we play the first fret,
[SOUND] that is an F.
[SOUND] Up a whole step, G on both of those strings.
Another whole step will take us to A.
[SOUND] Another whole step will take us to B.
[SOUND] We only move up one fret now for a half step to C.
[SOUND] One more whole step up to D.
[SOUND] And then one more whole step to get back to [SOUND] an octave E.
Which is [SOUND] one octave higher [SOUND] than the note we started off with.
So those are the notes that you should memorize for
the sixth string and the first string.
They're both Es and two birds with one stone so to speak.
Now, we're going to also know the notes, memorize the notes,
that are on the fifth string.
So we start with the open string five which is A.
[SOUND] Now we're going to move up two frets, and
we're going to go [SOUND] to B.
Now, as we know from working with the half step wheel,
we only have to move up a half step to get to our C.
[SOUND] Move up a whole step to get to D.
[SOUND] Another whole step and that's E.
[SOUND] A half step gives us F.
[SOUND] We move up a whole step and we are at G.
[SOUND] One more whole step and we're back at A.
[SOUND] Which is an octave higher than the original A,
the open string five that we started with.
[SOUND] Recap really quickly.
Staring with open string A,
[SOUND] B, [SOUND] C, [SOUND] D,
[SOUND] E, [SOUND] F, [SOUND] G.
And back to A.
[SOUND] So it's really important
to memorize those three strings.
Now it's not that you shouldn't memorize the notes on the other strings too.
But, just with those three strings, it's possible using your knowledge of
half steps and whole steps to figure out a lot of the notes on the other strings.
In addition, you can match notes that you know on those strings, for example, a G.
[SOUND] You can match it with another note [SOUND] on another string.
So right away you know that this G that you've just learned.
[SOUND] Matches in sound to the G that's here.
It also matches to the open string G.
[SOUND] Another example is that you might match this
[SOUND] G right here, which you've just learned.
And you can match [SOUND] it with another G here, or another G here.
[SOUND] In addition, you can use your knowledge of half steps,
whole steps, sharps and flats.
Along with the half step wheel that you have, you can go backwards.
[SOUND] And say, if that's a G, [SOUND] then this must be a G flat.
[SOUND] And that must be an F.
If we move backwards [SOUND] along strings like this, that's an E.
[SOUND] And then we can go back and figure out all the other notes.
C, [SOUND] B, [SOUND] A [SOUND] by essentially
going backwards on the wheel.
So in addition, learning the notes on the fifth and sixth string,
when we get to movable chords.
Which is something when we get to the section on chords.
Knowing exactly where what we call the root of the chord is,
allows you to be able to move chords around.
[MUSIC]
And typically many chords take the name of the root, which is the lowest note.
So that's one of the reasons why we'll learn the fifth and sixth strings.
Because the roots for those chords that we're going to be learning,
often occurs on the lowest strings.
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