Seeing Guitar on the Piano -- Fretboard Toolbox
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- -See how the notes on a guitar relate to the notes on a piano with a Fretboard Toolbox Complete Guitar Edition.
-Also, see where the notes from a treble clef are found on the guitar to help you pick out melodies from sheet music.
-Download free Complete Guitar preview pages, or order the full book here: www.fretboard-t...
-Download a free copy of this "Standard Notation Jig" here: www.fretboard-...
-If you find it helpful, please "Like", share, comment, and/or subscribe! :-)
Enjoy! ~Scott
This is useful because the hardest thing about the guitar and the easiest thing about piano is precisely visualization. This connection with the intuitive layout of the piano makes the notes on the guitar easier to understand.
Thanks for your feedback! You can view/download/print those pages for any of nine different instruments here: www.fretboard-toolbox.com/standard-notation-jigs.html
Happy playing!
Scott
@@FretboardToolbox too right
@@FretboardToolbox -Something is wrong with that website.
@ Thanks for letting me know! 🙏 I’ve got more messages like that so I think it happened today. 🤦♂️ I’ll call the host today and see what happened!
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Scott
Priceless!
Now I can see the
connection between
the two. Very creative!
Thanks for sharing your "aha" moment with me! :-)
If you want a free copy of the page, you can download it here, by scrolling to the bottom: www.fretboard-toolbox.com/guitar-free-videos-and-tools.html
Happy playing,
Scott
Can't express my gratitude. Your generosity, you have no idea what you've done for us here. Thank you!
This is what I'm looking for all this time.. I want to know how a guitar works when compared to a piano because it's difficult for me to understand the guitar.. And this will really help me.. Thank you very much.. this is very useful 😊
Hi R FZ, Thanks for letting me know- I was also really confused before I made that page! :-)
If you click on "Look Inside" for the Complete Guitar Edition, the guitar/piano page is included in the free pages for that book. You can find that here: www.fretboard-toolbox.com/guitar.html
Happy playing!
Scott
It is kind of an irritating instrument compared to the piano 8n a lot of ways
It's more popular people like it more It's associated with rock and roll but the user friendliness for a beginner definitely goes to a piano. Press a button and it produces a note.
@@taylorbee4010 exactly. Guitar is very intimidating. Its so difficult to even get a sound out.
Also I realised it is so complex that most people are playing it without understanding it,
this is actually insanely useful, especially for someone like me that is maybe on the slower side when it comes to absorbing knowledge. literally every video tells you about scales, arpeggios, intervals, but none even explains to you how octaves actually looks on the guitar.its very confusing to see them say "now we take same g, but an octave higher", but instead of going to 15th fret - they are going to 3rd string. its still weird for me, as all repeating notes in blue area sounds different to me, but at least i now understood how this works generally, so i say thank you so much for putting this out
This fretboard color chart would be great to tape to the fretboard itself. As a pianist I have found your video here very helpful. Thank you.
Your work is genius and sharing with the world is much appreciated. I asked gemini to help me visualise the frateboard into piano and it lead me here with link. You are a great teacher.
Thank you so much for letting me know! I’m a better teacher than musician 😂
this is EXACTLY what i needed. I want to compose on a piano but play it on a guitar and this tool is just the ticket. thanks!
Thank you for this! Played piano first, been strumming guitar for years never really understood the relationship of notes and chords - now finally the I have the light bulb experience! 🎹🎶=🎸
So happy to hear it!!! Thanks for letting me know!
Scott
I'm an audio and visual learner. This is a big help to me. It really puts thongs into perspective.
I really appreciate you letting me know!!
Happy playing!
Scott
Hello Scott, I like to play my guitar everyday, but I've always really been desperate to learn the notes on a piano keyboard and where they correspond on my guitar fingerboard, and now I have to say I found this video totally and utterly fascinating, I was hooked from the very first piano note you played, I have learned something today thanks to you sir...so much so I am now going to get myself a keyboard and try to learn some chords on a keyboard.... thank you so much for this sir
Thanks for such thoughtful feedback John! I still can’t believe that this isn’t taught as standard practice. 😂
Happy playing!
Scott
I’ve been searching for You a life time 🙌🏽
That’s one of my three favorite comments in over 14 years!
The other two:
It’s like I’ve been watching a 3D movie my whole life and someone just gave me the glasses.
The other:
That was a long walk for a short piss 🤣🤣🤣
Thanks so much! ❤️
Scott
Pure genius!! I finally see it now!
That's the highest compliment I could imagine. Thanks Markola!
I truly appreciate this. I found a song I love that is played on a piano (distant memories by Philip wesley) and I couldn't find on how to transfer it to guitar. I found your video and now I'm going to try with lots of practice. Hopefully I can get it. Thanks again your awesome!
Thanks for letting me know, LaTisha! It's takes lots of practice, but it's so worth it!
Happy playing,
Scott
LaTisha Wilcox I'm learning Slash's guitar solo on Sweet Child O Mine the opening riff on Piano. Interesting. Music is universal.
Exceptionally usefull for both my curiosity, as well as understanding instrumental differences, but MOST useful for how to actually play a guitar in a DAW.
I haven't watch all of this yet but I think it will be very helpful to this senior citizen lady. Thank you.
Thanks for letting me know! You can find this page for free here (for lots of different instruments)! www.fretboard-toolbox.com/standard-notation-jigs.html
Happy playing!
Scott
DUDE this is so useful as a piano player learning guitar. Thank you sooooo much. I'm definitely printing this out.
Thanks for letting me know!!
This helps ton! I write most of my songs on piano, and lately I've been wanting to transpose it to guitar so this is a big big help! ❤️
This is amazing, the time spent as.a pianist wanting to play guitar by transcribing between the two
Awesome! Here’s a link to those pages for a bunch of different instruments. :-)
www.fretboard-toolbox.com/standard-notation-jigs.html
Happy playing,
Scott
Thank you so much. Your the only one I came across that show me what I wanted to know. Thanks once again
really good clarity, he has cracked the code. Well done
Thanks Darrill!
Happy playing,
Scott
Thanks Darrill!
Happy playing,
Scott
Excellent! Thanks for this video. I come from a Piano background and recently started learning Guitar. This helps me a lot, especially since in Piano you don't have a note repeating across the keyboard (except at octave(s) higher or lower), whereas in Guitar same notes at same pitch are present across strings!
Thanks for letting me know!
Scott
so simple, so beautiful... thank you. This is going to make such a difference!
Thank you much, Oliver! If you go to the "Free Toolbox Pages" link on my website, you can download all the instructions for my book, which includes the page I used in this video. Glad you found it useful!
I played guitar for a long time and just started piano, this was pretty interesting. I always imagine chord progressions as they would be on guitar when learning them on piano, it's easier to see the patterns on a guitar fretboard.
That’s awesome, Scott! Thanks for letting me know!
Happy playing,
Scott
U literally just solved all my problems with this one chart thank you so much!!!!
I been trying to do this exact thing for years and you helped me see it so clearly great thanks my friend
It's been driving me nuts that middle C on a guitar is played an octave lower than middle C on piano. This really helps visualize it. Thank you.
Excellent presentation! Thanks for taking the time to show these two instruments side by side. Your presentation was very clear and helpful.
I'v been looking for this long time ago. was struggling on piano song to play on guitar. Now i can. Deep thanks and blessing. You made my works easier. Good job by the way.
This is great. I'm a keyboardist and use a midi keyboard with guitar pro. When I play, let's say a Dm9 chord on my keyboard and look at the resulting tab, it involves a lot of stretching something almost impossible to play for the average guitar player. Now that I know the link between guitar strings and piano keys, I'm confident I will produce playable and accurate tabs. I'm sure this should be very helpful in sequencing softwares like Logic or Cubase too.
I’m a pianist trying to learn guitar and this helped me understand guitar much better. Thank you x
Thanks for letting me know! You can find that page for lots of stringed instruments here: www.fretboard-toolbox.com/standard-notation-jigs.html
Happy playing!
Scott
Scot your a legend. Thank you for this.
Thanks Terry C!!
Happy playing,
SScott
Genius! Thanks tons I can finally "see" how this works for guitar. Duuuude
Playing all my fingerstyle on piano after watching this!!!
Awesome! Hope you let me know how it goes!! :-)
Scott
Will do :)
You can print off that page for free by clicking on "Standard Notation Jig", found towards the bottom of this link: www.fretboard-toolbox.com/guitar-free-videos-and-tools.html
@@FretboardToolbox Is that page still available? I followed this link and didn't see the page. Thank you!
Hi Cody,
Here's the link: www.fretboard-toolbox.com/guitar-free-videos-and-tools.html
Happy playing!
Scott
This exactly what I was looking for!!
I am learning piano now - grew up with piano. I tried to go into stringed instruments recently (with a ukelele), but found i was not able to concentrate nor was it interesting (right now) for me. But i got a ton of tabs in preparation, so being able to still make use of all the guitar and ukelele items i have is going to be GREAT!! Thank you ssooooo much for this video!
You bet, Wulph!!!
Thank you so much for making this video nd the sheet.
I just started to learn piano 2 days ago and had a guitar lying around for 10 years - untouched. Coz it was too intimidating.
I am definitely a very curious person & if i hadnt found this video i would have done it myself,
I really really appreciate you doing this.
This has really sinplified things for me. 😊❤️
Thanks for sharing!! :-)
Very helpful content Sir! Thanks for sharing
Thanks so much for letting me know!!
Happy playing!
Scott
Its also useful when u are practicing singing on guitar if u don’t have a piano..thanks this helped a lot
Excellent video and PDF mate. Cheers.
Much appreciated!
Happy playing,
Scott
This Is GOLDEN, Bro!! Thank You! Peace
This was EXACTLY what ive been looking for :) THANK YOU
omg this is gold and you're a genius sir, well done
+Main Character Thanks a bunch!!! Let me know if you're not sure how to download that page for free!
Happy playing,
Scott
This is very helpful. Thank you.
Thank you sooo much !
This was just what I needed to get the aha feeling :)
Glad to hear it, Eline! There's nothing like those aha moments, is there? :-)
Your an absolute boss mate this explained it so well, thanks!
+Joe Smith Appreciate it, Joe!!
Happy playing,
Scott
I wish I could buy this ONE PAGE. This is awesome!!
Well, never mind, it was available to download. 💪🏾🙏🏾 thank you! It’d be cool to sell laminated copies of it in color. I’d easily pay $5-$10.. incredible piece of work!
The bad news is you can’t buy that page. The good news is that it’s free on my website 😂 www.fretboard-toolbox.com/standard-notation-jigs.html
Happy playing!
Scott
this is gold ... thank you so much ...
Really instructive thank you!
Very cool-actually this is very useful-I have been transcribing already but this will save me alot of time,thanks...
Thanks- glad to hear it! Here's a link where you can get free copies of those pages for all of the instruments that I've made Fretboard Toolboxes for: www.fretboard-toolbox.com/standard-notation-jigs.html
Happy playing!
Scott
I want to buy that book. That you for the presentation.
Yes and it’s harder to play the chords on guitar, you are doing a great job. 👍
This is cool I have been a guitar player for a long while but I keep hearing a godamm piano in my head so I'm gonna try one
Love this! Looking to see how to use guitar music when I cannot find the piano sheet music for what I want to play. Really interesting video. Thanks!
I really appreciate this PDF! I had been looking for exactly this info a few days ago and couldnt find it. Of course I find it while browsing unrelated videos haha. Just FYI (sorry if someone has already mentioned this to you), but the treble clef note coloring mapping is a little off. I believe the green and blue color should be swapped if they want to align with the piano and guitar colors. Thanks again for all this info in one place!
Nvm I didnt read the stuff at the top. Apparently guitar players dont use the real concert 4c note when referring to the note that is on the first ledger line below treble staff. They use 3c for that note for whatever reason.
Sorry I just noticed your message, League Jax! I think the music is read an octave off to make sheet music fit closer to the headstock. Don't quote me on that though. :-)
Happy playing,
Scott
This was super helpful. I've played piano for years and have been lost navigating a guitar.Although this won't help my finger precision, this'll at least help me understand :)
Ahhhg and you gave us a free pdf of it! You're a life saver. I'll subscribe just bc of that!
Thanks for letting me know, Caleb! Is this the link where you downloaded the pdf? www.fretboard-toolbox.com/standard-notation-jigs.html
The precision takes time and comes fastest when you practice daily. Here are three things that have helped me improve, and a free practice log to record the days and amounts of time you practiced. www.fretboard-toolbox.com/3-big-ways-to-improve.html
Happy (and healthy) playing,
Scott
@@FretboardToolbox Don't think that was the exact one, but the one I got was on there. Thanks!
Great explanation
Dude you nailed it
Best video ever I found the key ,love you
Thx dawg just what i was looking for
Glad to hear it! Thanks for letting me know!
Happy playing,
Scott
Really awesome. I can take one of those piano synth videos and translate it to tabs with this
Thanks for the feedback. Let me know if you have any luck with it! :-)
(If you scroll about halfway down on this link, you can download your own copy of it for free: www.fretboard-toolbox.com/guitar-free-videos-and-tools.html)
Happy playing!
Scott
Yeah it worked came back to get the image again. So awesome dude.
Very useful, thankyou.
Excellent !
Too cool, I grew up playing the piano and only picked up the guitar a couple of weeks ago, this has better helped me understand the fretboard. I'll be Jammin to Malaguena and Fur Elise by Beethoven in no time 😎
Thanks for letting me know, J Norfleet! Here's a link to all my guitar videos, in case you want a head start. :-)
Happy playing,
Scott
thanks brother, this helps a lot
Hey Scott, nice work.
We’ll done, thanks for sharing!
Thanks for letting me know, Christian!!
Happy playing,
Scott
This is great help. i cant play guitar i only play piano and this is amazing info for guitar plugins. subbed.
Glad to hear it!! Happy playing!!
Scott
You’re a legend
Thanks so much for this!
OMG thank you so much. This is amazing!
Glad to hear it, Kim! Thanks for letting me know.:-)
Happy playing,
Scott
Brilliant! well done.
+Suzanne Atkinson Awww, thanks Suzanne- glad you liked it!
Happy playing,
Scott
Thank you so much
finally, i needed this soo much
Thank you!
Thanks brother for this lesson
You bet, Rahul!
Happy playing,
Scott
Very cool
Great job. What confuses my is the guitar is based around octaves of E, and the piano around octaves of C.
So when you show the octave break from green B to blue C on string one, there is no octave change there on
the guitar. Both notes are the same octave on guitar.
Thanks! I think the starting and stopping points of the octaves are arbitrary, so I wouldn’t worry too much about it. The colors I’m showing are just relative to piano, but I see what you’re saying. :-)
Happy playing!
Scott
That was really helpful! Thank you😍
Glad you liked it!!
thanks it was really helpfull
Wow this was crazy helpful. Thank you
Glad to hear it Chris! I've got lots of new things in the works, so stay tuned! :-) Scott
Thank you brother for the information!!!!!
Great to hear you enjoyed it, Santosh!
Happy playing,
Scott
Great vid my man! subscribed
Thanks for letting me know!!
Happy playing,
Scott
Nice work. Gonna get the book
+MrBillyblues Thank you, sir! Happy playing, Scott
Thank you so much! This was very necessary
You bet! Glad to help!
Happy playing,
Scott
Great job thanks
Thanks!! Happy playing!!
Scott
This is very good stuff indeed.
THANK YOU
Genius very helpful handy👍👍
This is a pretty late comment but thank you so much for this I play guitar and I want to transfer my tabs to the piano this helped like alot ♥️
brilliant !
Thanks Lawrence Decamillis! Glad you enjoyed it!
Happy playing,
Scott
This is absolutely amazing I would love to buy this book. I’m a native piano player switching to self-taught guitar. Which book is this? I noticed a few on your store I’d love to have one.
Hi Tetniss,
Thanks for the kind words! If you just want the piano page, you can get those for free here (you might like seeing where the other instruments lie on the piano too): www.fretboard-toolbox.com/standard-notation-jigs.html
Since you can get the piano page for free (it’s also in my Complete Editions), butI would do a little research before deciding on the Essential or Complete book. You can download pages for free here by clicking “LOOK INSIDE” www.fretboard-toolbox.com/guitar.html
At the same link, near the top of the page, click “Essential vs Complete” to see the differences compared, and there’s even a video going into the differences if you want to learn more. :-)
Hope that helps!
Happy playing,
Scott
@@FretboardToolbox thank you very much! This is beyond helpful.
A little late to the party but this video was awesome!
Thanks Hector! You can download all of those keyboard vs fretboard tools for free at this link: www.fretboard-toolbox.com/standard-notation-jigs.html
Happy playing,
Scott
Thank you so much!
Thank you for useful video :)
You’re welcome!
Happy playing!
Scott
Very very useful. I have been looking for this relationship between piano and guitar for years. So do we play most of the songs on the 4th octave in piano as well as guitar?
Lots of melodies for sure!!
Thanks bro
Thank you
You are welcome!!
Happy playing,
Scott
Great lesson!
Thanks downhill2400- appreciate it!
Happy playing,
Scott
thanks for your really helpfull video !
+David Baechler music Glad you liked it, David! Happy playing, Scott
question from piano guy here: how do you play for example a middle C chord (C+E+G) with guitar if the E and G interfere with each other, meaning that, you have to play a free 1st string and at the same time press it down in the 3rd fret + the 2nd string 1st fret for C ??? or you just have to ignore either E or G or play it in a different octave ?
Hey Marius,
That’s a good question! There are many different inversions of each chord going up the fretboard, but they are not arranged as nicely (linearly) as they are on a piano. So on a guitar, you might not need to concern yourself with whether a chord is a first or second inversion, like you would on a piano. The bigger thing to focus on is the overall chord shapes, and memorizing those. Then, if you’d like, within those shapes you can focus on where the root, third, and fifth notes lie.
Hard to describe in text, but hope that makes some sense. :-)
Happy playing,
Scott