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View Poll Results: Do you know the names of the notes on the fretboard? | |
Yes - Every Fret.
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Yes - but some I need to think about.
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Only a few here and there.
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None what so ever
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10-21-2008, 08:17 AM
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10-21-2008, 08:28 AM
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10-21-2008, 08:30 AM
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10-21-2008, 08:31 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Finland | | I confess I need to think a little in the areas I don't play very much, i.e. high up on the neck and on the thinner strings. At least I know the E and A strings in and out, and it isn't exactly hard to figure out the rest from that. 
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10-21-2008, 05:15 PM
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Originally Posted by john turner  yes i do. i particularly like fretting brenda. she sings | Which one's Brenda? |
10-21-2008, 05:56 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Rochelle, Illinois | | | Yup.
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10-21-2008, 07:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: South Side Chicago | | | i know most of them the thinner strings G and A i gotta think about |
10-21-2008, 07:55 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Lincolnshire, UK | | | I've got to think about a few, but I know a lot.
I've also found lately that if my guitarist is trying to show me a riff it's easier for me if he says the note names rather than the position on the fretboard. |
10-21-2008, 08:02 PM
|  | Funkify your Life | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Bucket, RI. | | | Yes, it's a fundamental of learning to play a fretted instrument. |
10-21-2008, 08:19 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Crook Custom Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Wheeling WV | | Well, uh, yeah.  |
10-21-2008, 08:26 PM
|  | Less barking, more wagging! | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: San Diego, CA | | I was so proud of myself when I "learned" the names of the notes on the fretboard of my first electric bass that I went to Pop to brag. I was about 13 or 14 at the time.
Pop looked at me with a straight face and asked, "If you were going to play a diatonic major scale in the key of Db, what would the name of these notes be?"  "And if you were in the key of B?" |
10-21-2008, 08:31 PM
| | Less barking, more wagging! | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: San Diego, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by john turner yes i do. i particularly like fretting brenda. she sings | Reminds me of the one about the blonde who bragged that she'd memorized all of the state capitals.
Her friend asked, "OK, what's the capital of Mississippi?" to which the blonde replied triumphantly, " M!" |
10-21-2008, 10:41 PM
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10-21-2008, 10:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Swede lost in the 5th republic | | I know all the names of the notes on the fretboard, just don't ask me where they are on the fretboard... 
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10-21-2008, 10:56 PM
|  | Total Hyper-Elite Member | | Join Date: May 2000 Location: Groom Lake, NV | | | Be Honest! Do you know the names of the notes on the fretboard?
Yes, they're pretty much the same ones as on the piano keyboard.
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10-21-2008, 10:59 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Seattle, Washington | | Yep. Easy. Been reading music for about half my life, so it comes pretty natural now
It's a little tougher when I'm playing my 6-string, tuned C#F#BEAD (or CDCEAD, or CF#BEAD), but I can still do it.
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10-21-2008, 11:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Deacon_Blues I confess I need to think a little in the areas I don't play very much, i.e. high up on the neck and on the thinner strings. At least I know the E and A strings in and out, and it isn't exactly hard to figure out the rest from that. | What he said.
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10-22-2008, 12:14 AM
| | | | the best way to know all of them is to learn to read music and pratice in all the neck, when you read you can't look at the neck, your hand has to know all the positions of the notes by memory
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10-22-2008, 12:22 AM
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Yes, it takes me a moment, but I'm getting faster and better at it. I like this. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...uitarnotes.jpg
Not sure if it is posted anywhere. I thought about taking it to kinkos and having a poster sized print made of it; then laying it at my feet as I practice. |
10-22-2008, 12:25 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: the Netherlands, Amsterdam | | | higher up the neck gets harder for me, around 10th 11th, the bottom end is easy peasy though | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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