So you've studied our
natural notes on the E string lesson and are left wondering how to name those mysterious blank spaces in between? Well, these are the 'chromatic notes' and we will learn how to name them in this lesson
In our natural note lesson, we learned a pattern where between most natural notes there is a two fret distance, or a 'whole-step'. The ...
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Knowing the notes on the neck is important on many levels. It adds a certain concreteness to what you play when you know and use note names rather than fret numbers. It helps with communication with other musicians. Try telling your keyboard or sax player "I'm playing the note on the 8th fret" and watch the troubled, quizzical looks that follow! It is also much ...
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