You're going to. Oh, Welcome to the guitar music theory

podcast. I'm Desi Cerna, author of Frontboard Theory, Guitar Picking Mechanics, Guitar Theory for Dummies, and more.

This podcast features free guitar lessons that focus on music theory for guitar, including guitar scales, chords,

progressions, modes, composition techniques,

improvisation, and more.

The lessons are geared toward intermediate level players on a.

You can follow along on either an acoustic or electric guitar.

Bass players can take away a lot from the lessons too. Today's podcast episode is a previous recording in which I discuss how to learn the notes on the fretboard

and how to best navigate the neck.

This lesson is based on my book fretboard theory chapter one. And the You're going to. Oh, you're not. Hi, I'm Desi Cerna. Welcome to my podcast, How to Learn the Notes on the Guitar Fret Board.

In this free guitar lesson, I'm going to give you some tips and tricks on learning and memorizing the notes along strings

six and five.

This information is necessary if you want to learn guitar theory and apply it to the guitar fretboard.

It might be a good idea to have your guitar on hand and play along with me during this lesson.

Make sure that you're tuned up.

I tuned to an electronic tuner,

440 standard tuning.

I'll be using an acoustic guitar through most of this podcast, but of course this applies to the electric guitar as well. The guitar fretboard is a grid. All guitar

scales, chords, chords, and chord progress

and patterns on the fretboard. Guitarists visualize these shapes and patterns in order to navigate around the neck.

Furthermore, guitarists understand how musical elements fit together by connecting these dots.

In fact, no matter what form musical information comes in, whether it's presented through notation,

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