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Learning where each note is.

Cantido	Date: April 8, 2004 @ 12:03 PM My guitar instructor has started teaching more chords, but I still need to learn where each note in the guitar is. I don't know why each chord has its letter and number, but I should. Is there a chart or something on the internet?
sqrlcub	Date: April 8, 2004 @ 1:15 PM Well, I know what you are looking for, but you will probably be better served learning intervals and how they relate to the notes you are playing across the fretboard. For example, learning the shape of octaves will suddenly show you where to find the upper or lower note octave depending where you are on the fretboard. After I saw how those shapes were formed the rest happened pretty intuitively. Forget about the numbers. You should be able to do that right off based on visual or sensual clues (ie, 2 dots on fret 7, fret 5 is the second dot down, fret 12 has 2 dots, and on an acoustic guitar it is 2 frets away from the body, etc). If you are willing to go the very work intensive and hard way learning the notes by rote, you can go to places such as these: http://guitarsecrets.com/all_notes.htm , http://www.supersonic.net/guitar/lessons/lesson-5.htm , or http://www.thecipher.com/fretspell_guitar.pdf (careful, pdf's load slow), etc.
kredd	Date: April 8, 2004 @ 2:03 PM become familiar with the fact how notes relate to each other in as to where they are on the fretboard. for example, an A can be played open on the A string or can be fretted at the 5th fret on the low E string. you can play an open D chord near the heastock, a D chord on the A string - 5th fret or a D chord on the low E string - 10th fret. understanding all your options will help with your 'fretboard efficiency' as i like to call it. the letters on the chords represent what note you are playing - an 'A' chord. the numbers represent what type of 'A' chord you are playing - 'A7', 'A5', etc. i know you didn't ask all that, but there it is! goood luck you'll get it
mawcs	Date: April 8, 2004 @ 4:07 PM (I declare...)
woodhead	Date: April 8, 2004 @ 8:25 PM go to www.wholenote.com you should find all th info you are looking for there

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