The hardest notes to find on the guitar fretboard

Re:The hardest notes to find on the guitar fretboard by metalman on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @11:54AM (#50455587)

I struggle even knowing what the notes are called, but have a rudimentry knowledge of what some chords are, but not why. All that matters to me is how it sounds, and since I am singing with guitar, improvising as I go , when someone asks what note or chords I am useing , I do struggle for an answer, but it occurs to me , now, to tell them to play whichever ones they like the most, and we will MAKE it work.

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Re:The hardest notes to find on the guitar fretboard by udit99 on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @11:56AM (#50455619)

That's one way to do it. Honestly, that's the beauty of the guitar. You can just learn a handful of chord shapes and be off to the races. But it also turns into it's biggest weakness when people want to go deeper into learning and understanding the instrument.

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Re:The hardest notes to find on the guitar fretboard by javier123454321 on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @12:27PM (#50455978)

Learning the notes helped me immensely. Like, one of the lowest effort highest leverage activities. It took a few weeks of deliberate practice and it made a lot of things easier. I just followed this: https://youtu.be/PJddQ6Q0UDo?si=DCCtH5Y6RzHNY5Nn

Highly recommend it.

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Re:The hardest notes to find on the guitar fretboard by hannofcart on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @12:29PM (#50455995)

Am not sure if this is indeed what you are talking about but if it's the realisation that any song can be played in any key, and that you can mechanically 'transpose' (I think of it as shifting) any song in whichever key you want and more fundamentally, a tune is made of intervals, that was a bit aha moment for me too

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Re:The hardest notes to find on the guitar fretboard by dava96 on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @01:36PM (#50456840)

Learn the notes on the E string, then the concept of an octave and how to find them.

If you play the open E string, the octave for this is on the D string 2nd fret.

The easiest way I found was to think of the notes on each of the strings are a repeated pattern starting in different positions.

Start with the whole notes (no sharps or flats)

EFGABCD ABCDEFG

Once you've got them down you can learn the sharps/flats

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Re:The hardest notes to find on the guitar fretboard by udit99 on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @01:46PM (#50456951)

take a look at this interactive course I made: https://www.gitori.com/learn/FBG-101 Once you finish that, you can start playing the accompanying games to practice what you learnt

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