Lesson 3 of 18GuitarBeginner

Dividing the Fretboard into Five Positions

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How the fretboard can be divided into five positions and how to find your way around it using octaves.

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18 lessons (2h 17m) · 1 free
    • 01. Course Introduction

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      2:41

    • 02. The notes on the E and A strings

      13:19

    • 03. Dividing the Fretboard into Five Positions

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      8:03

    • 04. Position Exercises

      13:32

Lesson transcript

Music Lesson

After Hohn:
Is it Mahmweite, nun Greifenwehr.

This is E of the Desaite und Sukhanun.
Stessen Octave aufwertz am Griffbright.
Here, Missenvier dreibunde Weiter of the Uber nieks desite ISU auf die Haasite die Site.

Next is complete position:

  • Diesenthen Bond of the Haiti hamtion ambushpiel.
  • E. Position eins.
  • Position Zwei.
  • Position Dry.

Here to Gryphon:
We are analog to Isaite finten Vida the Octave machen wieder von Frane.

  • Erst Deposition.
  • Zweig Deposition.
  • Tritt deposition.
  • Fiat deposition.

And last but not least, keep this auch any fifth position here too.

Greifenberg:
Try bending upwards und versiten outwards.

Also, different:

  • Position eins.
  • Position Zwei.
  • Position Dry.
  • Position Laglassik.

Kent.
Sophia.

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Frank Doll, born in 1972, studied at the Music College Regensburg before reading musicology, German and linguistics at the University of Regensburg. Drawn back to the guitar, he went on to train at the Munich Guitar Institute (MGI). He has worked as an instrumental teacher since 1998, alongside countless performances at home and abroad across rock, pop, musical theatre and light music. He currently teaches in the music stream at the Edith-Stein-Realschule in Parsberg and has run the Musikwerkstatt Frauenberg since 2006. On MusicGurus his German-language Griffbrett Theorie courses map the guitar fretboard systematically - intervals, chord shapes, modal positions and applied theory - for players who want to understand the neck, not just memorise shapes.

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