Added by on 2013-07-16

Something every guitar player should know although many don’t is the order of notes on the neck. In this simple lessons Mike Williams from www.ShredGuitarAcademy.com will teach you a quick and easy way to be able to figure our what any note on the neck is in seconds. Part 1 of 2. Video Rating: 4 / 5

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  • klisk 10 years ago

    Hey, thanks for this set of videos. I’ve been playing guitar for 18 years, mostly by ear and experimentation, and the basic stuff like this always wooshed over my head. Which SUCKS when you join a band and frustrate everyone else when you play out of key (but it sounds right to you.) Hopefully this will help!

  • Spencer Winter 10 years ago

    Big Cats Eat Fish

  • choup84 10 years ago

    Now that’s what we call lesson… Explaining all details just like a teacher in school… I love it very much… The first lesson that i can keep up with… Thanks a lot….

  • Fabian Corpuz 10 years ago

    lol. B–>C and E—->F make a smiley face.

  • Fabian Corpuz 10 years ago

    so much freakin win!

  • Eternal666Power 10 years ago

    @ShredGuitarAcademy Greetings, I’ve been playing guitar for quite a while and started to learn theory recently. I have a ton of questions but the main thing is scales. I understand the part that it imroves your technique, speed etc… But I don’t understand when people say that a certain song or a solo is created from a scale… And how? Everything is really confusing for me right now…. Could you please help me out???

  • izzyvulaca 10 years ago

    owned…

  • brothir 10 years ago

    It’s not that hard, really. I had played guitar for only 4-5 months before I started learning basic music theory such as this. You just have to memorize the notes (there are just 12, so it shouldn’t be too hard), then learn the general formula for major and minor scale (Where you’ll be using 7 of those notes) and finally know where the notes are on your neck and you are good to go. It takes some memorization, but it’s much easier than mastering any guitar-technique.

  • exTstorm 10 years ago

    holy shit i actually learnt something, thank god

  • bamboozel1234 10 years ago

    props to you for using a black board. havnt seen one in years

  • MrSleep1980 10 years ago

    that is a beautiful solo at the end

  • MrSleep1980 10 years ago

    the notes will ALWAYS be in alphabetical order but can start with any note. there are an infinite amout of notes that go on forever because there are an unlimeted amount of frequencies. they go on forever

  • Adam Czarski 10 years ago

    i recently got back into guitar two weeks ago…i used to mess around doing chords and reading tabs, but never got into theory…could you maybe do a couple scale lessons…you explain stuff very well. I have a hard time finding a good video on using scales also…most people just tell you how to play them, but not how to use them.

  • pikajesus 10 years ago

    I really don’t see me getting this stuff down..

  • DisrespectYou 10 years ago

    Ahaha. 

  • ShredGuitarAcademy 10 years ago

    Maybe, but if you have to listen to Julie Andrews sing that stupid song from the sound of music while frolicking through the hills of Austria in order to learn the right way I’d prefer to learn the wrong way ;p m/

  • PitchBlackGuitarMan 10 years ago

    Hey in Europe where we learn music the right way there is
    Do (C) Re (D) Mi(E) Fa(F) Sol (G) La ( A) Si ( B )
    So this is the more classic way to learn the real notes.

  • ShredGuitarAcademy 10 years ago

    He is from there originally & moved here when he was 13.But I feel quite confident even without asking him that he knows next to no music theory. I was just kidding with you anyway.Im sure it’s not that complicated just slightly different details but still based on the same Western system.I imagine it would be interesting to study a music theory system that is completely different. I believe the Chinese system for example is completely different & Im sure would be interesting to study.

  • Ethricje 10 years ago

    Well, I wouldn’t call it more complicated. Apart from the fact that we call B’s “H” and Bb’s “B”, and also the different expressions for sharps and flats, the notes are all the same. But isn’t your band’s drummer norwegian? He should have taught you this by now!

  • ShredGuitarAcademy 10 years ago

    Damn you Norwegians and your complicated theory! ;D Thanks my friend. I wish I lived in Norway. Highest standard of living in the world I hear and home of 90% of my favorite bands. m/

  • Ethricje 10 years ago

    If you have not received a proper explanation for the “H”-note, it’s simply that here in Norway, (and possibly some other countries, I don’t know) your “B” is referred to as “H”. Your “Bb” is our “B”, though our notations are all the same (Bb, G# etc). However, we don’t say “G sharp”- or “flat”. We say “Giss” and “Gess”. The “-iss” suffix means sharp, while the “-ess” means flat. But we mostly just use the “-iss” of the preceding note instead of the “-ess”‘es. So Gess = Fiss.

  • opethforlife 10 years ago

    Mr. Mike, you are a great teacher, thank you so so much.

  • GeorgioSVK 10 years ago

    Hi. Nice vids.
    I believe VikingNightmare wanted to say that in some countries the “B” note is called “H”. And the “Bb” (B flat) is just called “B”. You know, C D E F G A H C … etc. So, basic tuning of guitars is E H G D A E.
    Even in my country (Slovakia, Central Europe btw) is that so. Little weird, but thats how they teach it here. I really don’t know why.
    Keep up good work.

  • asperxful 10 years ago

    tnx for the lesson ^_^

  • Jovan Djukic 10 years ago

    I think I know what are you reffering to. Western and Europian musical system are slightly different. The notes are the same, exepct note B. In America it is B, but in some Eurpian countries, B is called H. Same note but different name. Also, flatted American B is B-flat, but flatted Europian H is B. The second string on guitar can be called B, but also can be called H. So, B=H, and B-flat=B. Hope it helps :)