Reading a Diagram for Beginning Guitar

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BRYAN BILLHIMER: Hi. I'm Bryan Billhimer and on behalf of Expert Village, welcome to Guitar Playing 101, The Basics. Okay, so now we're going to talk about reading diagrams. I'm going to show you this first basic diagram that you're going to see a lot. I'm just going to draw, basically, the neck of the guitar. Okay, so this double line here represents the nut that we talked about earlier, and we have 6 strings--1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Okay? This string is the low E string. We have our A, D, G, B and the high E string. It's important to memorize the open strings. These are called "open strings" because, when you hit the string on the guitar, that's the note that you hear--A, E, D, G, B, E. This is the nut and these are the 6 strings. The blue lines on your notebook paper represent your frets. So we have 1st fret, 2nd fret, 3rd fret, 4th fret, 5th fret. In this first exercise, I'm going to show you next is going to be working with the first 4 frets, so this is all the further diagram that we need.

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