Learning how to play guitar involves a lot of things, but the most important thing is to have fun doing it!
Notes are name after the first seven letters in the alphabet. They are:
A - B - C - D - E - F - G
among any two notes, except B - C and E - F, we also have a sharp and/or flat note.
These are the symbols that are used to indicate sharp and flat:
# | = sharp |
b | = flat |
If we list the notes, once more, and include the sharps and flats, we get:
A - A#/Bb - B - C - C#/Db - D - D#/Eb - E - F - F#/Gb - G - G#/Ab - A
One important thing to see that #/b is one note that has two names. For example, C# is the exact same note as Db. Sometimes, one name will be used, and sometimes the other name will be used. For now, it's only important that you know the names of the notes.
Another thing to notice is that after G#/Ab we arrive at A again. This second A vibrates exactly twice as fast as the first A, and therefore, the ear tends to hear it as another edition of the same note. The second A is called the OCTAVE of the first A. If we continue after the second A, we get A#/Bb an OCTAVE higher than the first, B an OCTAVE higher, C an OCTAVE higher etc., etc., until we get to A again. This A is two OCTAVES higher than the first A. If we keep going, the whole pattern just repeats over and over until we can't get any higher on the instrument. (If you didn't run out of notes, you could keep right on going until the notes were so high that only a dog could hear them!) The same is true if you travel in the opposite direction. The pattern repeats until you run out of notes, or the neighbors call the cops (whichever comes first).
