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15: Musical Alphabet Guitar Lesson · The Guitarjet Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Guitar Jet podcast, where you'll skyrocket your
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  Speaker 1: knowledge of theory, techniques, and fundamentals for guitar.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, welcome to the show. I'm your chief guitar and
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  Speaker 2: structor Miles, and today we're going back to the basics
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  Speaker 2: and covering a foundational concept in guitar theory, the musical alphabet.
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  Speaker 2: And you would not believe how many guitar players and
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  Speaker 2: young aspiring musicians actually don't know the musical alphabet. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so let's go back to basics, and we'll start by
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  Speaker 2: talking about twelve notes. So there are twelve total notes
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  Speaker 2: in the musical alphabet in western harmony, and you have
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  Speaker 2: seven natural notes cdefgab, and then you have accidental notes,
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  Speaker 2: which is like C SHARPD sharp, F sharp, G sharp,
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  Speaker 2: and A sharp. So a natural note has no sharp
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  Speaker 2: or flat. And we already covered the seven from C
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  Speaker 2: to B. And the reason that we cover the natural
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  Speaker 2: notes starting from C is because when you go through
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  Speaker 2: all seven natural notes C, D, E, F, G, A, B,
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  Speaker 2: so all seven natural notes starting from C, you create
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  Speaker 2: the C major scale, which is often considered the mother
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  Speaker 2: of all major scales because it's the only major scale
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  Speaker 2: whose notes are all natural and then the accidental notes
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  Speaker 2: are notes that have a sharp or flat, such as
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  Speaker 2: G sharp or B flat. Accidentals appear between natural notes.
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  Speaker 2: There are only two notes without a sharp, and that's
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  Speaker 2: B an E. This means that there's only one half
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  Speaker 2: step between them and the next natural note. You can
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  Speaker 2: notice this when you look at a piano and see
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  Speaker 2: that there's no black piano key between B and C
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  Speaker 2: or between E and F. And that's it. And you
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