Guitar Fretboard Chart (all notes)

Guitar Fretboard Chart (natural notes) - no sharps, flats

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Learning the guitar fretboard chart is essential for guitar players. It is a roadmap for learning the guitar.

Why? Because it's difficult to find guitar chords and scales on the fretboard. So we need a guitar fretboard chart.

1. Memorize the natural notes on the first 4 strings of the fretboard.

There are too many notes on the guitar. So to make it easier try learning the natural guitar notes first. Stick to the 1st 4 strings. Of course I'm talking about the low sounding guitar strings. Such studying also helps one learn the bass guitar. The bass guitar notes are the same as the notes on the first four stings of the guitar fretboard.

2. Get a general idea where the sharped and flatted notes are.

You don't have to memorize the exact fretboard notes on the guitar. However, you can generally understand that the fret above G note is F sharp or G flat. Trying to memorize every note on the fretboard is confusing.

3. Memorize the natural notes on the last two strings of the guitar.

It's always helpful to know them all.

4. Get a general idea of where the flatted and sharped notes are on the last two strings.

As I said before it's helpful to know it all.

5. Find chords and scales

let's say we wanted to know where the G chord was located. We would look for the G note on the guitar fretboard chart. We would then look for moveable chord shapes whose root note is the same location as our note. We then make the moveable chord shape and we have a G chord. However, we cannot use this formula to find open chords. Open chords have open notes. Nonetheless, it is useful to find bar chords.

For more information about bar chords, root notes, and moveable chords then check out

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We can also use this information to find scales. Basically we use the same formula. The only difference is we are looking for movable scales not chords.

Let's say we are looking for an A major scale. We would look on the guitar fretboard chart and find an A note. We would then look for moveable scale shapes whose root note is the same location as our note. We would then make a movable scale and we would have an A major scale.

For more information about root notes and moveable scales check out

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