Fretboard Exercises for the D Note

by Richard on 7 November, 2012

Mastering the notes on the guitar fretboard takes time and a bit of consistency in playing. After years of just messing around I figured I’d better expand my skills from just basic strumming and a few scales to really understanding how and why the notes sound like they do. This is what I do when I am just picking up the guitar for the first time in the day to help commit the notes to memory.
I focus on one note a week and warm up picking the note in each position on each string going up and down the strings while switch which finger frets the next note.

Here are where the note positions are for the D note in the first 12 frets for each string. Mind you this is all standard tuning.

String 1: (10th)Tenth Fret and vibrates at 588Hz.
String 2: (3th)Third Fret and Vibrates at 294Hz.
String 3: (7th)Seventh Fret and vibrates at 294Hz.
String 4: Open and vibrates at 147Hz.
String 5: (5th)Fifth Fret and vibrates at 147Hz.
String 6: (10th)Tenth Fret and vibrates at 147Hz.

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Fretboard Exercises for the E Note

by Master Guitar Fretboard on 5 November, 2012

As you progress through your fretboard training and learn how to remember notes on the guitar you will begin to really notice them in the songs you listen to. Which is how you can begin to tell how well you are grasping the different pitches between the notes on the guitar.

Here you will memorize the E note on the fretboard. Practice slowly until you can play each note while standing up and hardly looking at the guitar. If you haven’t already take a look at 5 Ways Speed Up Your Stage Presence.

Fretboard E Note Facts:

String 1: The E Note is played Open string and vibrates at 330Hz.
String 2: The E Note is played on the (5th)Fifth Fret and vibrates at 330Hz.
String 3: The E Note is played on the (9th)Ninth Fret and vibrates at 330Hz.
String 4: The E Note is played on the (2nd)Second Fret and vibrates at 165Hz.
String 5: The E Note is played on the (7th)Seventh Fret and vibrates at 165Hz.
String 6: The E Note is played Open string and vibrates at 82.5Hz.

Ways to Practice Memorizing Without Getting Bored

Lets face it, turning on the metronome at 40 Beats Per Minute and plucking a single note for ten to fifteen minutes while signing the note out loud isn’t always the funnest thing to do. If your like me than you sometime catch yourself refocusing after about a 30 minute lapse in random jamming out bits.

Take it in chunks and just play a few minutes at a time and never play because you feel you must the moment it becomes a chore it becomes a bore. Just stick to one note at a time and soon enough you will know all the guitar fretboard notes.

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Fretboard Exercises for the F Note

by Master Guitar Fretboard on 5 November, 2012

The F Major bar chord will put your strumming practice to the test but so will being consistent enough with your practice to master the notes on the guitar. To learn all the notes on the guitar you must first want to learn them. Its easier to understand the benefits than to do what it takes master the fretboard notes.

There are virtually infinite ways you can practice to learn the F-Notes on the fretboard. Today you will see how I like to practice committing the note to muscle and mind memory.

Facts about the F-Note:

String 1: The F-Note is on the (1st)First fret and vibrates at 350Hz.
String 2: The F-Note is on the (6th)Sixth fret and vibrates at 350Hz.
String 3: The F-Note is on the (10th)Tenth fret and vibrates at 350Hz.
String 4: The F-Note is on the (3rd)Third fret and vibrates at 175Hz.
String 5: The F-Note is on the (8th)Eighth fret and vibrates at 175Hz.
String 6: The F-Note is on the (1st)First fret and vibrates at 87Hz.

Practice tips for anytime you play.

Practice your guitar playing standing up. If you can use a mirror to view your hand position once in a while. Good form will allow you to stretch out your fingers and reach those great sounding passing tones. Play with a metronome, use your smartphone if you have to (Mobile Metronome App).

You can talk to anyone who plays on the guitar professionally or just as a hobby and they will tell you they avoided learning the fundamentals, unless they went to school for it, for many years. As Youtube has shown us, just about anybody can learn to read and mimic tabs.

Once you get a solid understanding of where all guitar fretboard notes are located you will be leaps and bounds ahead of your own success and will be playing in the big leagues.

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Fretboard Excercises for the G Note

by Master Guitar Fretboard on 4 November, 2012

On your path to learning all the guitar fretboard notes you will begin to become more confident for every note you master. As you know–there are only seven major notes to memorize.

If this is the first note you are going to master on the guitar fretboard here is what I recommend to help keep it fun and interesting.

1. Only practice it for a few minutes at a time. A few before you jam out and a few right before you put your baby back in the case or on the rack.

2. Take it nice and slow–let every note ring out for a few beats than go to the next string. Soon you will be switching fingers skipping strings back and fourth and making it even more interesting.

3. Practice standing up and if you can in front of a mirror.

Sexy G Note

Here are some things to know about the G Note.
String 1: The G-Note is on the (3rd)Third Fret and vibrates at 392.3Hz +-.3
String 2: The G-Note is on the (8th)Eight Fret and vibrates at 392.3Hz +-.3
String 3: The G-Note is Open String and vibrates at 196.1Hz
String 4: The G-Note is on the (5th)Fifth Fret and vibrates at 196.1Hz
String 5: The G-Note is on the (10th)Tenth Fret and vibrates at 196.1Hz
String 6: The G-Note is on the (3rd)Third Fret and vibrates at 98Hz

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Start Selling with Pay Per Click Correctly

by Richard on 1 August, 2012

Several key elements must be in place before turning on any Adwords traffic your website.  You want to make sure you have all your gears oiled and put them through a few test runs.  If not, it’s likely you will throw a rod and blow the whole thing up and end the race of business with a DNF.

First thing is first, do you know what action you want the user to take when they get to the webpage?  Are they going to be buying something or just coming for content?  If they are going to be buying something you must ensure the order process is a smooth as you can make it at the time, with the resources you have.

Run through the sales process yourself a few times to check.  Better yet have someone else run through the process for you.

Tracking and Analytics, If you ever really want to get the most out of paid traffic you must set up tracking.  Is tracking a 100 percent accurate process, no but it’s a heck of a lot better than no tracking stats at all.

Your budget should be fairly large to get the most out of pay per click platforms, like Google Adwords or Microsoft Bing.  A hundred dollars a day would be great because that would allow you to collect enough data over a shorter period of time to find out what is working and what isn’t.

Another thing you must have a firm grasp of before you start running a Pay Per Click campaign is how much your profit margins are and your long term customer value.  This will allow you to really justify your PPC budget and verify if you’re getting a good return or poor return.

The way things are going with how people order and buy stuff online you must be ready to implement chances often.  Within a year or so the ability for us to reach more devices and with different kinds of ads from video, text, interactive, exclusion, selection based it’s going to important to corner your part of the market as fast as possible.

Two things will always remain constant when it comes to selling products and service. One thing is the words used to sell the products and the service tied to the product.  Just imagine if you couldn’t use the internet to reach people who are ready to buy your products now, would you still be able to find clients and customers with traditional print and street selling?

It’s overlooked and underrated but simple works.

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