Guitar Notes For Beginners Online

When playing guitars for beginners, the first thing you need to do before playing guitar chords is to play guitar notes for beginners.  The notes on the guitar neck are called A, B,C ,D, E, F, G.

We will start with the names of the strings.
The sixth string is the fattest wound string at the top.  The first string the smallest smooth string at the bottom.

The strings are called.
6th  E
5th  A
4th  D
3rd  G
2nd  B
1st  e     <- same note as the 6th string, different octave.

If you pluck the 6th and 1st string together you will hear they go together to make a lovely harmony.  Pluck two other strings together and it won't sound as nice.

There are also notes along each string on the frets.  We will look at the sixth string for the notes of frets.
Open 6th string is the note E, this is why the string is the E string.  1st fret is the next note on the scale called F, 3rd is G, 5th is A, 7th B, 8th C, 10th D, 12th is E an octave higher.  And it repeats with F at the 13th fret and so on.  See the picture below.



Guitar Notes on the guitar neck for the 6th E String.


You will notice there is a space between the guitar notes except for the E and F and also the B and C.  The other notes have a half note between them.  They are a called a sharp if after or a flat if before the note.
ie. A sharp is the same as B flat.

More guitar notes for beginners online, A string begins with A open string, B on the 2nd and so on.  Similar pattern to the E string except for moved to start with the A note.

Hope you found this introduction on guitars for beginners useful.  Please feel free to ask me anything on this.