Names Of Open Strings (Guitar Lesson BC-133) Guitar for beginners Stage 3

This is Stage 3, Lesson 3 of Justin's Beginner Guitar Course.

This video explains the notes names of the open strings and some fun ways to remember them.

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Hi, how're you doing ? Justin here.
In this little video today, we're

going to be checking out the names of the open strings,

i.e. what their note name is, for each one of these open

friends. because eventually, we need to learn what the

notes are all over the guitar and we're going to start with

these open strings.

So first of all, we need to create a little bit of space over

here, for me to stick a little neck diagram up, so if I just

kind of lean over . Okay, about now, ping, up comes

this little neck diagram and you'll see there,
E A D G B E.

And these are the names of the open strings.

And what I've just done is name them
from the thickest string.

See, if I play it at the same time now,
we've got E

A

D

G

B

and E again.

Of course noticing now that the two outside
strings are both E's

Which is why somethimes I call it the fat string or the

thick string and the skinny string or the thin string because

I can't both call it the E string 'cause they're both E strings.

Now, the thing that's going to really help you remember the

names of the open strings is to make up a funny little rhyme

Now, the one that I used when I was groing up, was

Easter Bunny Gets Drunk After Easter, which starts with the

thin string: Easter Bunny Gets Drunk After Easter.

Now, this one for me if kind of funny, the idea of the easter

bunny going around, delivering eggs to all of the bad kids,

being a bit upset about it, going back to his little burrow and

knocking off a bottle of Jack Daniels. I think it's kind of fun.

So therefore, it was easier for me to remember. But you can

make up any other rhyme that you like. There's quite a few

ones that I heard that I though have been quite funny.

Every Boy Gets Dizzy Around Elle which is Elle Macpherson,

my favourite super model. So, Every Boy Gets Dizzy Around

Elle: my little tribute to the the wonderful Elle Macpherson.

We could have also, one of my students told me one,

starting from the thick string:

Eddy Ate Dynamite, Good Bye Eddy. So that one is going

from the thick strings. It really doesn't matter. You can make

up your own rhyme, so long as you have a rhyme that will

help you remember the open string note names. And this

is really important because very, very soon, i.e. in the next

stage, we're going to be starting to look at all of the note

names and the notes in the open position. If you don't know

the open strings yet, it's going to be kind of, well

next to impossible.