Note Circle: With A Jam Buddy

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@jjw

aren’t those notes referred to as A2 and A3?

Numbering the notes in absolute terms is not much of a guitarist’s thing but it is a thing.

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Music Theory Live Class #I

@MAT1953 has mentioned this already. Doubling and halving is the logical arithmetic here. The note we call C at fret 3 of the 5th string has a frequency of 130.8128Hz. The note we call C at fret 1 of the 2nd string has a frequency of 261.6256Hz. 130.8128 x 2 = 261.6256 the note at B/1 can’t … be a note C if the one at the root is a C because they sound different … They do sound different. Absolutely, categorically, unequivocally different. They sound different because they are at diffe…