Starting with a C note the scale is spelled out as follows:Ĭ – C#/Db – D – D#/Eb – E – F – F#/Gb – G – G#/Ab – A – A#/Bb – B – C The ‘Chromatic Scale’ in traditional Western music theory simply refers to every one of the 12 available notes. The point is that both names mean the same note. Same note, same string, same location on the fretboard. At the same time, if you take the D note and raise it one fret you have a D#. If you take the E note and lower it one fret, you have an Eb. So what about the note in the middle on the sixth fret? How to read this note depends on the context and point of view. Go two frets up to the seventh fret and you have an E. This is because these notes are ‘in between’ notes that are identified with just one letter.įor example, look at the note on the fifth fret of the A string-it’s a D. You’ll see that each one has a note with a sharp (#) and a note with a flat (b). You might already have noticed that some notes seem to have two names. Before we get into what we can do to make learning the notes on the fretboard a lot easier, we need to take a look at a complete guitar fretboard diagram, as shown below:
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