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Guitar Fretboard Notes Chart
Every note on the guitar neck, up to the 15th fret, in standard and six popular alternate tunings. Tap any note to hear it, highlight one note to see every place it lives, and test yourself with the find every note game.
How to memorise the fretboard
- Learn the natural notes on strings 6 and 5 first. They give you the root of every barre chord. Use Natural notes only to see them on their own.
- Use the landmarks. Fret 12 repeats the open strings an octave higher; frets 3, 5, 7 and 9 have dots.
- There are no sharps between B–C and E–F. Every other pair of natural notes has one note (a sharp/flat) between them.
- Octave shapes: a note on string 6 is repeated two strings up and two frets higher (string 4), and so on — the One note everywhere view shows these patterns.
- Quiz yourself daily with the game above or the fretboard trainer (Name the note / Find the fret).
Questions
How many notes are on a guitar?
There are 12 different notes (C, C#, D, D#, E, F, F#, G, G#, A, A#, B). They repeat in higher octaves along the neck: a 22-fret guitar has 138 fret positions, but only 12 note names.
What are the notes on each guitar string?
In standard tuning the open strings are E A D G B E from the thickest (6th) to the thinnest (1st). Each fret raises the note by one semitone.
What is the fastest way to learn the fretboard?
Learn the natural notes on the 6th and 5th strings first, then use octave shapes to find the same notes on the other strings. Short daily quizzes beat long sessions.