[Guitar] Do you really know what note you're playing?

It has been about three years since I started teaching guitar. In this essential knowledge, I want to unify some important concepts that students often miss and do not practice and understand. Beginners, there are actually some music theory that students who have been playing for a long time are not clear, so they will be very stuck when they want to learn more advanced skills later, so I hope these few points can remind you that you are learning You of the guitar.

What sound am I playing?

I think it's a common blind spot for a beginner guitar player, or even some students who have been playing for a while. At the beginning of learning guitar, most people will focus on the pressing and brushing of chords, but they ignore "what is the note I'm playing?" If you compare learning piano, students need to know at the beginning. The key is whether the key you are pressing now is "Do" or "Re", but it is often omitted in guitar learning. So what I want to mention is the "note name", "roll call" and the commonly used "numbered notation". Everyone needs to really know what the note of the first string is.

1. Remember the notes of each of the six strings on the Standard Tuning
2. Start learning from the major interval; full half full full half full half, learn to calculate the note on each string
3. A grid represents a semitone

fretboard name practice site

You can use this website to practice finding every note on the fretboard

Teacher, do I have to carry it up?

Many times when I remind students to know what notes they are playing, students will ask me, do I need to memorize it, teacher?
In fact, I think "memorizing" is just a way to make you remember, but the word "memorizing" is a painful and boring method from our traditional education, and it is often easy to forget, I think you have to " It is not the way of "the fifth string and the third grid is Do", but you first memorize the sound of the six strings of "EADGBE", and then use the rules of major intervals to calculate the value of each grid. Tones, of course you use the back if it can help you find a certain tone, why not? But I think music learning can be a little more free. I provide an exercise method, which is to draw a blank fretboard diagram, and then fill in the position of each sound. This method will allow you to quickly visualize the whole The fingerboard of a guitar, you will naturally know where the sound is after a long time. If you want to calculate it quickly, there is a way. Later, I will share the so-called "Freetboard Rules" with you, you can find some logic and rules in it. .

What's the use of knowing what to play?

Really understand the composition of chords<br class="smart">The composition of chords is the notes found in the major scale, and when we first learned the guitar, we would only see the chord chart to teach us how to press the strings, but not Tell us what the notes are, so when you can find the notes on the fretboard, you can see why the chords are played the way they are, and you can even figure out your own "C chord" that sounds good to you

And because of the structure of the guitar, the thickness of each string is different, so that when you press on different strings, the timbre and arrangement will be different, so even the same chord, in different positions All can create different timbres, we call them "Chord tone" and when you want to find these special sounding chords, you need to know what note you are pressing.

I recommend everyone to watch this video by Mr. Ye Yujun. He introduced that there are 1296 ways to play four chords , so should you memorize the chords? Make up your own mind...