How To MEMORIZE Your Guitar FRETBOARD: The No-Nonsense Exercise That Actually Works

Amp Mad Scientist said:
There used to be a note called "H."
Thank Fudd, they got rid of that. Good Riddance.
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Astral Traveler said:
I remeber that one, it made no sense. Instead of A B C D E F G we had A H C D E F G or C D E F G A H. What the hec wad up with that?

Yea, good riddance to the freeloading bastard H.
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Wow, I though AMS was kidding, but it is true, at least in some European countries.
 
Astral Traveler said:
Yeah, I was taught H when I was a kid bit Ibwas also taught that in some countries it was called B.
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Yeah... Apparently H was invented by Bach so that his name can be played as a melody and we in the German musical theory lineage have to still suffer from that?

So here (if you're playing classical music, church hymns, local folk music, or even more stuck-up popular music , or are taught by teachers whose knowledge originates in that kind of tradition), B is H and B flat is B

When I studied electric guitar and pop/jazz theory for a couple or years, we used B and B flat as intended. My brother in law started by studying piano and accordion and acoustic guitar so he says H when he means B...

Lately I've been doing video lessons for guitar and harmonica on a local platform where they seem to use H across the board. It's mildly confusing occasionally but I'm kind of used to it by now.

In my opinion H is worse because your chromatic order stops being in alphabetical order and you have one flat where the flatness isn't denoted in the name anymore.
 
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I just assumed that was something that everyone who played up the neck had to know? I learned it many years ago as part of scales. I guess if one knows what position to play an A (ex- 10th fret B string), you wouldn't have to know it is an A note? I just find it aay easier to know the notes. When you play songs in F or a flat key you don't have to simply play in positions, you can move around if you know the notes.
Doesn't make it less emotional playing amd knowing the notes.
 
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