There are those who can hear and name notes the same way the rest of us can look at paint chips and tell what color they are. And if you're one of the few lucky soles who process that gift, you can stop reading here.
On the grid:
The good news for the rest of us is that the strings and frets of the guitar form a near perfect grid. If you combine that with our lifetime of schooling that has been teaching us to recognize patterns, you have a simplified way to learn how to play chords on a guitar.
Basically, there are four different visual forms to help you learn to play guitar:
o Chord Charts
o Scale Charts
o Guitar TABs
o Standard Music Notation
They each have their limitations, and they each have their strengths as well.
Chord chart and scales charts look very much the same. They are both grids that represent a portion of the neck of the guitar. The strings run vertically and the frets (and the nut) run horizontally as if you were viewing the guitar and it's hanging on the wall. So, the lowest E string is on the border line on the left, and the high E is on the right.
Since it is designed to show only a portion of the fingerboard, if the top line is anything other than the nut, a number is show on the left side of the chart to indicate which fret the charts is shown for.
Learn to play guitar by the numbers:
A chord chart will have dots where your fingers should be placed. Sometime they have numbers inside the dots to represent which finger that specific dot should be played with. Open strings won't have a dot on them (they sound, but their not fingered). Sometimes some strings are not meant to be played at all, and those are represented with an "x" above that string on the top line of the chart.
After all strings are fingered in the chord, you can strum to sound all the strings (except for the ones notated to not sound). How to play chords on a guitar with specific strumming patterns, however, is not indicated. But the chord charts are usually shown above standard music notation and are commonly accompanied with "hash" marks that usually either represent strums or beats for measure on a music stave.
A scale chart also has dots, lots of dots. A chord chart will only have one per string, but a scale chart will usually have two, three or four dots per string. As with the chord chart, the scale chart typically has numbers in each of the dots to represent which finger is to be used to finger each note. The name of the scale (i.e. major, minor, etc.) is usually indicated above the chart.
When you learn to play guitar, you might notice that some scale charts may also have two different colors of dots. One color is used for the "root" note which might occur twice or three times on the chart and the other color represents all the other notes in that scale.
Instead of sounding all the strings at once, to typically learn the scale form you play only one note at a time starting with the lowest note (whichever note that is on the sixth string closest to the top). All the notes played on the sixth string are sounded before moving to the next (the fifth) string and so on...
After you learn how to play electric guitar using the scale forms, you'll rarely play all the notes in ascending or descending order during a song, but rather uses those notes to create a melodic sounding solo.
These forms, as long as they don't contain any open strings are know as movable forms, meaning you can use this same form starting with different root notes. Start on a G, it's a G scale; start on a C, it's a C scale.
Waiter! TAB, please...
Guitar TABs are an extremely useful form that doesn't require the ability to read music to perform it on the guitar. There is a chart with six lines that run horizontally, each representing a string. The lowest string (low E) is on the bottom, and the highest string is on top.
Numbers are used to show where the strings are fretted (rather than which fingers are used to fret them as with chord and scale charts). In this way, if numbers are stacked vertically on top of each other, it represents how to play chords on a guitar. Numbers that run from left to right form melodies. Very versatile indeed!
The draw back with TABs is there's no way to indicate the value of the note; how long the note is held out.
The good news is, guitar TABs are usually accompanied by standard music notation, so you can learn how to play electric guitar borrowing from both forms of notation.
Standard music notation, the universal music standard, is great for guitarists who are already trained knowing where each note on the five line stave can be played on the guitar, but not so much to those who don't have that training. Basically standard music tells you what note to play, but doesn't show you where it is played (as done with guitar TABs). But it does give you the note value (whole, half, quarter, eighth, etc.), and as mentioned before Tab readers can "steal" the note's value when standard music notation is accompanied by the TABS.
By using these simplified visual approaches, you can learn how to play guitar chords, scales, and melodies all without having to have the ability to read music. So...you can learn to play guitar with the knowledge you possess right now!
I could go on, and on, and on. Here's a great resource: learn to play guitar, that can really jumpstart your playing and show you more about how to play electric guitar Now, go forth and make music!
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