Lesson 5: Reading Scale Charts

Don't get confused with this one... This is just another way of representing the strings.

The square box that you see in the picture below is what you'll be seeing through most of these lessons. The leftmost line indicates the Thickest E, followed by A, D, G, B, and thinnest E. Similarly, the topmost line, marked '0' denotes the 0th fret, followed by 1st, 2nd, 3rd , 4th and 5th frets.

To produce a note, you have to press on one of the frets, indicated by the fret number. If the fret number is not mentioned, you can simply strike the string without pressing any of the frets. Such notes are called 'Open notes' or simply 'zero fret notes'