Knowing the names of the guitar notes across your fretboard is a useful and important skill to develop as a guitarist.
Memorizing your guitar notes will help you…
- Unlock Scale, Chord, and Arpeggios on the fretboard,
- Understand music theory,
- Sightread Written Music,
- See What You are actually Playing, and…
- Communicate with non-guitarist musicians more deeply.
To help you learn your guitar notes, you will find two fretboard diagrams of all of the notes. Take your time working with them as there are a lot of guitar notes to learn.
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All Guitar Notes – Sharps (#)
The diagram below includes all the guitar notes, for all six strings across a 24 fret guitar neck. In this particular diagram, all of the accidentals are written as sharp (#) guitar notes across the fretboard.
All Guitar Notes – Flats (b)
The diagram below includes all the guitar notes, for all six strings across a 24 fret guitar neck. In this particular diagram, all of the accidentals are written as flats (b) guitar notes across the fretboard.
How to Memorize the Guitar Notes
Just looking at the mess of guitar notes in the diagram above, it’s no surprise that memorizing them all can be a real challenge.
Believe it or not, it is actually more difficult to do on the guitar than on most other instruments!
Over the years playing and teaching guitar, I have found that the secret to truly memorizing the guitar notes is exposure.
Exposure means that you have seen them and thought about them so many times that you just know them. This is similar to how you probably still remember your childhood telephone number or any other numbers that you need to use regularly.
But, how do you maximize your exposure to the guitar notes in order to get them down as quickly as possible?
To help you learn and memorize all of the guitar notes across the fretboard, I have created the “Finally Learn the Notes of Your Guitar” training course.
You can learn all about the course here.
If you have any questions or comments about the guitar notes, please post them below.
