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    Stationary Springboards Diagram

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    This document provides two diagrams, called "springboards", to help guitar players learn the notes on the fretboard. The stationary springboard diagram shows four locations on the fretboard that always correspond to familiar notes: 1) the open strings, 2) the 12th fret, 3) notes at the 5th/4th fret tuning positions, and 4) notes 12 frets above the tuning positions. The movable springboard diagram shows how any note on one string corresponds to the same note two strings and a specific number of frets away to form octaves across the strings. Mastering these springboard relationships helps players determine the notes they are playing.

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    This document provides two diagrams, called "springboards", to help guitar players learn the notes on the fretboard. The stationary springboard diagram shows four locations on the fretboard that always correspond to familiar notes: 1) the open strings, 2) the 12th fret, 3) notes at the 5th/4th fret tuning positions, and 4) notes 12 frets above the tuning positions. The movable springboard diagram shows how any note on one string corresponds to the same note two strings and a specific number of frets away to form octaves across the strings. Mastering these springboard relationships helps players determine the notes they are playing.

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    This document provides two diagrams, called "springboards", to help guitar players learn the notes on the fretboard. The stationary springboard diagram shows four locations on the fretboard that always correspond to familiar notes: 1) the open strings, 2) the 12th fret, 3) notes at the 5th/4th fret tuning positions, and 4) notes 12 frets above the tuning positions. The movable springboard diagram shows how any note on one string corresponds to the same note two strings and a specific number of frets away to form octaves across the strings. Mastering these springboard relationships helps players determine the notes they are playing.

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    Stationary Springboards Diagram

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    JohnyScribd
    This document provides two diagrams, called "springboards", to help guitar players learn the notes on the fretboard. The stationary springboard diagram shows four locations on the fretboard that always correspond to familiar notes: 1) the open strings, 2) the 12th fret, 3) notes at the 5th/4th fret tuning positions, and 4) notes 12 frets above the tuning positions. The movable springboard diagram shows how any note on one string corresponds to the same note two strings and a specific number of frets away to form octaves across the strings. Mastering these springboard relationships helps players determine the notes they are playing.

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    Springboards

    I’m often asked by students, “How can I find my way around the fretboard better?” When watching a
    great guitarist, they often times, make it look effortless or even impossible. Without knowing the
    tricks it seems like magic. But alas, it’s knowledge. Let me emphasize that these are learned
    skills. Sometimes I’m also asked why one would even care to know the notes on the fret board.
    Some players may never desire to know such things, or what they play does not require them to know
    it. But what they don’t know CAN hinder their playing. Don’t misunderstand what I’m trying to
    convey. You might go your whole life and play in a band and NOT know the notes on the fret board.
    However, in certain (and many) settings if you don’t have that knowledge, you are going to look
    pretty silly NOT being able to play something that is required of you.

    Let’s say, I walk into a studio and the producer hands me a chart that is in the key of C - I sure
    better know where a C is! If I don’t, I’m going to have problem playing a solo or improvising in
    any way. So the short of it is, knowledge is power and since you are smart enough to be filling
    your head by reading this, I trust you are someone that wants to excel and are ready for the
    challenge. When it comes to knowing your fretboard, there are a myriad of techniques that you can
    use to determine which note they are playing at any given point in a song. Below are two diagrams I
    refer to as “springboards”, which are great tools to enable you to know exactly where you are on
    the fretboard.

    Stationary Springboards Diagram

    1. Know the names of your open strings e, A, D, G, B and e. Also, remember where your root
    notes are for all your open chords - e, A, D, C, G etc.

    2. Know the octaves of your open strings which are at the 12th fret and those open chord roots
    which are exactly 12 frets higher than their originals. So there your e, A, D, G, B & e are again.

    3. Remember how we learned to tune the guitar to itself using that 5th/4th fret technique? Well,
    since you know that already you have another springboard

    4. 12 frets up from the notes found on that tuning technique will give you yet another
    springboard location.
    Movable Springboards Diagram

    1. Notice numbers 1 and 5. They are strings E and A. ANY note on those strings will have an octave available
    down two strings and UP two frets as denoted by numbers 2 and 6. So 2 goes with 1 and 6 goes
    with 5. Get it?

    2. Now notice numbers 2 and 6. These are on strings D and G. ANY note on those strings will have an
    octave available down two strings and up THREE frets as denoted by numbers 3 and 7. So 3 goes with
    2 and 7 goes with 6. See, now you are getting it!

    3. Now check out numbers 3 and 5. I use this one a lot, too. Since these are both on E strings(high and
    low), they will always be mirror images.

    4. You could also associate, for instance, 1 and 4 or 5 and 2, etc., but the others are more apparent. The
    more you know, the better a guitarist/musician you become.

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