What’s on the Guitar: The Fretboard poster
A 8-row table: Fret · 6th string (E) · 5th string (A).
Standard tuning, low to high: E A D G B E. Frets 0–12; it repeats after that.
- 0 — E — A
- 1 — F — A♯/B♭
- 3 — G — C
- 5 — A — D
- 7 — B — E
- 8 — C — F
- 10 — D — G
- 12 — E — A
Octave shapes: up 2 strings and across 2 frets, or up 3 strings and across 3. Dots mark 3, 5, 7, 9 and 12.
Questions about the Guitar: The Fretboard poster
- What’s on the Guitar: The Fretboard poster?
- A 8-row table: Fret · 6th string (E) · 5th string (A). Standard tuning, low to high: E A D G B E. Frets 0–12; it repeats after that. 0 — E — A; 1 — F — A♯/B♭; 3 — G — C; 5 — A — D; 7 — B — E; 8 — C — F; 10 — D — G; 12 — E — A. Octave shapes: up 2 strings and across 2 frets, or up 3 strings and across 3. Dots mark 3, 5, 7, 9 and 12.
- Who is the Guitar: The Fretboard poster for?
- Guitar: The Fretboard belongs to the Music section rather than to a school year, because music is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning instruments can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Guitar: The Fretboard poster?
- Learn the low E and A strings cold. Everything else can be worked out from those two. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Guitar: The Fretboard belongs on the wall where that music work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Guitar: The Fretboard?
- Bass Guitar, The Brass Family and Cello Basics sit alongside Guitar: The Fretboard in the Music section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Bass GuitarThe Brass FamilyCello Basics
- Is the Guitar: The Fretboard poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Guitar: The Fretboard downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Music section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Guitar: The Fretboard poster print at?
- Guitar: The Fretboard is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Guitar: The Fretboard loses nothing.Printing guide
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