Notes on the Neck

Most guitarists learn shapes long before note names, then freeze when someone says "play it in C". This chapter teaches the notes on the guitar neck the practical way: one note at a time, everywhere it lives, until finding it is a reflex instead of fret counting.

You start by finding every A on the fretboard, from the open string up to the 17th fret. Then you learn the natural notes on the low E and A strings, where the roots of almost every power chord and barre chord sit, and the two half steps (B to C, E to F) that catch everyone out. Octave shapes carry those notes up to the D, G, B and high e strings, and the last lesson uses both tools to find every C and every G.

Each tab exercise plays in the browser with a click, so you can say the note names out loud in time. A checkpoint at the end of each lesson tells you when the map is really in your hands.