Hi, welcome to The Guitar Source. ‘The Guitar Sourcebook’ and this resulting website was written over several years in my spare time, and includes many of the tips and tricks I have picked up along the way. Here you will find just about all you need to know about playing the guitar. I have tried to keep it as simple … Read More
If you pluck any string of the guitar, it will produce a tone – a single musical note. A single note can vary in pitch (how high or low the note is). On the guitar the pitch is determined by where the string is fretted. Fretting a string near the nut (towards the headstock) will produce a low-pitched note. Fretting the string higher up the neck … Read More
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If we include sharps and flats, there are a total of twelve notes we can produce in music before hitting the same note we started at, an octave higher. For example, if we started at A we would produce the following notes: This progression of notes is called a Chromatic scale. Note: There are no sharps or flats between the notes B & C and E & F Also note that the sharps and … Read More
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Traditional music notation attempts to record music in a written form. This has developed over the years to include symbols for pitch, note duration, timing, rhythm and feeling, and more recently tablature specifically designed for guitarists. Traditional music notation is written on a stave consisting of five horizontal lines, and, for guitarists, will always have a treble clef to denote the range the notes fall in … Read More
