Guitar stuff

Well, I play a Epiphone Les Puul and a Fender Stratocaster on a AVT50 Marshall combo, can’t say I’m all that good at it, but I like to play. This page is mainly for my reference. Just some notes and other things I’ve learned about the guitar.

Doe, Ray, Me, Fa, Sol, La, Tee, Doe. Ah yea, the start of everything musical. This is how notes and chords are made up.

Looking at a piano 

You’ll see some large and small keys. The large ones are full notes (Major) and the small ones are half notes (sharp or flat). The half note between C and D can either be C sharp (#) or D flat (b). It all depends on what scale you are in. Which leads me into scales. Doe, Ray, Me, Fa, Sol, La, Tee, Doe. J

Scales: 

Scale in the key of “C” has no sharps or flats. So, I’ll use this example.

A Full step has one note between them.

A Half step has no notes between them.

Between C and D is one full step and between E and F is half a step.

C – Full – D – Full – E – Half – F – Full – G – Full - A – Full - B – Half - C

Looking at the layout, you can see there can’t be any (E# or F b”) or (B# or C b) because there are no notes between them.

This is how it works:

Doe (Full step), Ray (Full step), Me (Half step), Fa (Full step), Sol (Full step), La (Full step), Tee (Full step), Doe

Full – Full – Half – Full – Full – Full – Half.

You can start “Doe” on any note you want. If you start on “C” it would be a scale in the key of “C”. If you start on “D”, the scale would be in the key of “D”. So on and so on.

Looking at the guitar’s fret board, the same thing applies. Each string is laid out like a keyboard. The far end of the fret board next to the tuning keys is called a NUT. This is where all the open notes begin. Each string starts with a different open note.

Tablature shows the largest string, low “E” at the bottom of the tab.

Check out this Web site Explaining Tablature

Go to this page for Scales

Go to this page to Chords

Some music web sites