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Ask Alex about... Guitar Notes
 Key ideas: The guitar, like the piano, is a tempered instrument. This means all notes are pre-set.
We have 12 tones to chose from.
Those tones may repeat an octave higher, or lower, giving us a different note, but those 12 tones are all we have.
On a guitar, each fret is one step in that 12 step system.
If you play two frets next to each other on the same string, one oafter the other, you'll hear the interval of a semitone (or minor second).
If you skip one fret, the interval is one whole tone (major second).
If you play 12 consecutive frets you get is a chromatic scale.
The cycle starts again after 12 frets, an octave higher.
The guitar is a transposing instrument: it reads an octave higher than it sounds.
Fon non-transposing notation, guitar music should be written in the tenor clef instead of the treble clef.
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