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Beginner Guitar Lesson – Naming The Notes On The Fretboard Pt.1

In Beginner Guitar Lessons | on December, 23, 2009 | by | 7 Comments

This lesson is gonna take a little focus away from playing and instead try to help you know your way around the guitar a little bit better.

The guitar is notoriously a difficult instrument to visualize and because of that many guitarist’s of even advanced ability can’t confidently name the notes across the fretboard.

As I state in the video, the absolute best way to get your entire fretboard absolutely nailed is to learn to read sheet music. It’s not a total must, but it will thoroughly teach you your fretboard quickly.

Having said that, there are many players who can’t read a note of sheet music but know their fretboard quite well. All it really takes is an actual curiosity on the notes that you are playing when playing through a tune and so forth.

The popularity of guitar TAB in magazines and TAB music books leads to a lot of guitarist’s just thinking of the fretboard as a bunch of numbers. So here in this 2-part series I will introduce a few simple techniques that you can use to try and begin to learn the fretboard. After that, it’s up to you to stay consistent with it and try and figure out notes everyday.

There is a brief little theory primer at the beginning of the video to get you started, then we start to take a look at the fretboard.

Have fun and let me know if you have any questions or comments!!

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Naming The Notes On The Fretboard Pt.1

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7 Responses

Wave
12.23.09

Another fantastic lesson, you rock Carl!

tomas tejeda
12.23.09

i like the GABE thing it is very helpfull.

Kelly
12.23.09

Thanks for your help, man. I’ve been playing for WAY too long to not understand music theory. THis is going to help a lot!

Andrey
12.23.09

At the beginning of the lesson i wasn’t expecting anything i hadn’t known before, but this GABE thing is great! Thanks, Carl!

Mike pronovost
12.23.09

Hey Carl,
I love all of your lessons but can you make a way to change the videos to a lower quality?I have an iPad instead of a real CPU or laptop so it takes me forever to load some videos!And as far as the lesson goes this really helped me out. I’ve been playing about two years but I always stared at tablatures!my technique is good but my actual knowledge is close to nothing. So thanks!

Carl Brown
12.23.09

Hey Mike, thanks for checking out my lessons. You should be able to adjust the quality of the video using the toolbar of the video player itself. As for the quality, Youtube encodes all the videos at multiple settings and serves the appropriate video to you automatically. However, sometimes you may still want to adjust the video’s setting yourself and should be able to do that within the video players toolbar. That is assuming that viewing the toolbar is the same on an iPad than in a regular browser.

Anyway, hope this helps a bit.

Cheers! Carl..

Luis A.
12.23.09

For years I have been playing without knowing what I was playing. Made a record with a band and still did not know the guitar basics shown in here. Where were you 15 years ago when I most needed a teacher like you!

Thanks and wish you the best!

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