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Notes on the Neck of a Guitar

By: Mark Phillips and Jon Chappell and

Updated: 03-26-2016

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The following neck diagram shows the notes for all the frets on the guitar up to and including the 12th fret. Use this diagram to find individual notes on the guitar or to transpose any movable chord or scale to a different starting note. Sometimes you see two notes at the same fret; these notes, called enharmonic equivalents, have the same pitch.

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Jon Chappell is a multistyle guitarist, arranger, and former editor-in-chief of Guitar magazine.

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