FREE MICRO COURSE
Spell BEAD.
Learn the notes of the fretboard.
A free, beginner-friendly short course for guitarists who want to know where the notes actually sit. There is no account to create and nothing to pay. Just download the PDF and pick up your guitar.
B, E, A and D spell a word, so they are easy to remember. Learn where those four notes sit, move back one fret for their flats, and you already know 8 of the 12 notes. A few simple landmarks take care of the rest.
What you will learn
Six pages, a seven-day practice plan, and a clear path from four easy notes to the whole neck.
- 01Start with BEAD
B, E, A and D spell a word. Four of the open strings are already those notes, so you have a head start before you fret a thing.
- 02Move back one fret for the flats
Each BEAD note has a flat sitting one fret behind it. Learn the four, shift back one fret, and you have B♭, E♭, A♭ and D♭ as well.
- 038 of the 12 notes, then the last four
That is already most of the neck. C, F, G and G♭/F♯ have simple landmarks, such as C sitting one fret above any B.
- 04Practise with the free Fretboard Notes tool
The course shows you how to restrict the timer to B, E, A and D, then use a metronome to find the notes in time. The tool is free at tools.guitartraining.online/fretboard/notesofthefretboard.