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Play the String Notes with Your Guitar
Guitar String Names and Numbers
Strings from the thickest string to the thinnest string
| String number | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
| String note name | E | A | D | G | B | E | |
| Mnemonic | E | And | D | G | Back | E |
Take out your guitar and examine the strings:
You see the groups E E, A B and D G.
The other way to memorize in groups: EAD and GBE.
Switch on the microphone. With your thumb, pluck the string.
1) Play 6th string, E note. 2) Play 5th string, A note.
3) Play 4th string, D note. 4) Play 3rd string, G note.
5) Play 2nd string, B note. 6) Play 1st string, E note.
When you hit the strings in the order mentioned, you should see smileys under the note annotations. Before plucking the next string, mute the previous one.
Guitar Strings to Piano Keys
Here comes a tricky point. Guitar music is written an octave higher than piano music. In piano music the middle C is on the first ledger line below the treble staff. In guitar music the middle C is an octave higher on the third space of the treble staff. You can play piano music on a guitar and vice versa once you understand this.
Guitar String Intervals
- One fret corresponds to one semitone or half step on the guitar.
- You can play the same note same tone 5 frets up on the next thicker string.
- However, the interval between B and G string is 4 frets.
- Play the note on 2nd fret 3rd string, note A. Play the same note on 7th (2 + 5) fret 4th string.
- Play the note on 1st fret 2nd string, note C. Play the same note on 5th (1 + 4) fret 3rd string. This C note is Middle C in piano.