r/guitarlessons • u/SensitiveShallot967 • 1d ago

Question How do memorize notes on multiple strings? (Alfred's Basic Guitar Method #1)

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u/dbvirago 1d ago

How do you mean? Memorize to play or to read the music? I'm assuming you already did the E string. Back to that and practice until you are comfortable. You only need to learn 1 or 2 notes per string, but let the one build on the others. Take it slow.

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u/SensitiveShallot967 1d ago

I would say both. I can do E just fine. I got through that pretty easy but yeah combining all this is tricky. I'll practice E again.

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u/dbvirago 1d ago

Yeah, get the 3 notes on E until you don't have to think about it and then move on to B. Good on you for following a method book. Trust me, this will be second nature in no time.

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u/SensitiveShallot967 1d ago

For sure. I can play guitar but I've been at a loss as to how to practice in my free time since I haven't been able to go to my lessons. I did triads, backing tracks, so I was just trying to go back to the beginning.

But I get what you mean also. If E is this easy then maybe everything else will fall into place.

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u/dbvirago 1d ago

Yeah, the main thing is to take your time. Get things solid as you go along and mostly, have fun

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u/SensitiveShallot967 1d ago

I'll remember this. Thank you

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u/Old-Guy1958 1d ago

Play these exercises over. And over. And over. It’ll be stuck in your brain and in your fingers.

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u/SensitiveShallot967 1d ago

So basically do E again. I gotcha. I could do that.

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u/peacekenneth 1d ago

I memorized C first. Then I started playing triads, then I switched modes. Finding C on each string is easy, building from there gets easier.

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u/vonov129 Music Style! 1d ago

By remembering how the guitar is tuned, using reference notes like A, C and E and using intervals to find all the rest. Like G is the 5th of C, the b7 of A and the b3 of E. Since I know that octaves are 12 semitones appart i use that to find the next position of the note, substracting 5 semitones by each string i move to going up.

Putting it simpler, the "5 fret rule" + octaves. Use that to memorize a few notes and use those notes to find nearby notes.

Sounds more complicated than what it actually is, the rest is doing it a lot until you don't have to think much about it

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u/SensitiveShallot967 1d ago

I've heard of all of this but I need to refresh.

So it does sound a little complicated but I'm trying to bring myself back up to speed.

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u/AttilaTheHun2025 1d ago

I can't read this at all :D if its not tab for a guitar and in numbers, Im blind :)