Hi, this is Mike Hayes and on this video we're going to continue our discussion about locating
guitar notes all over the fingerboard and to help us with this process we're going to
use the circle of fifths.
We'll be moving around the circle of fifths in an anti-clockwise direction, and today
we're going to look at locating the guitar notes on the 6th, 5th, 4th and 3rd strings;
we're going to start at the note C, so our starting note on the guitar fingerboard will
be string six at the eight fret that's our note C; and we're wanting to move around the
circle on this particular video in groups of four notes, so we want to find a way of
moving from C, F Bb and Eb.
Going across to the fingerboard we find that at the eight fret we can have the notes conveniently
located one under each other.
String six we have the C, directly under C we have F,Bb is on string four, and straight
underneath Bb we have the note Eb, that's the third string at the eight fret.
So that's our first set of four notes, now what we want to do is find a way of conveniently
locating the next four notes on the guitar fingerboard so we want to move from Ab, locate
Db, F# and want to move right around until we can find the note B.
This is where our fingerboard codes come in and help us, and the code for locating four
notes at the same fret on the guitar when we're moving in an anti-clockwise direction
around the circle of fifths, our code is move down four frets; and when I'm talking about
moving down what I'm referring to is moving towards the head of the guitar.
So, our first starting point was at the eight fret, string six, now I'm going to move back
four frets to find a new starting point, 1, 2, 3, 4, so to find the note Ab, we'll find
Ab at the fourth fret on string six and we've found that note Ab by moving back four frets
from our original starting point 1, 2, 3, 4.
Now that we've got our new starting point all the guitar notes that we're looking for
will be directly located under the Ab, we have Db, string five, we have F #, fourth
string, fourth fret B is directly under F# and there we have our next set of four notes.
We only have to do one move movement and we will have actually completed our whole cycle
using four notes at a time.
I'm looking for a way of locating E, A, D and G all at the one position on the guitar
fretboard so here we go: E, A, D and G; going to use our same fingerboard code, I'll move
back four frets 1,2,3, 4, now it turns out to be an open string, the note E open, directly
underneath we have A, D fourth string open and then G third string open ... and that's
really all there is to it!
That's an easy way of remembering the location of the guitar notes on strings six, five,
four and three; now, of course the notes that are open if you didn't want to play them as
open strings we could have actually played the exact same set of notes, sequence of notes:
E, A, D and G we could have played that at the twelfth fret,, so it could have been:
E, A, D, G and of course when we do that we can see that that fingerboard code would work
to bring us back to our original starting point.
We'll be using these note locations on the fingerboard to help us play scales, arpeggios
and chords, so all-in-all going it this way we're actually achieving a number of things
all at once.
We're finding an easy way of remembering the notes on the guitar fingerboard and at the
same time we're getting to know the sequence of notes around the circle of fifths.