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UNDERSTANDING GUITAR FRETBOARD

Unlike piano, guitar is a 2 dimensional instrument, where redundant notes are scattered all over the fretboard across strings. There are exactly three octaves on the guitar of the E chromatic scale in the first 12 frets, that means there are only 12 notes x 3 octaves and + 1(1^st note) =37 notes. As in the case of piano, which is a 1-dimensional instrument and there is only one way of playing a chord or note; a guitar allows you to play chords or notes in multiple way for example: note A is there on the 5^th fret of 6^th string, A is also there on 5^th string open, A is also there on 7^th fret of string 4. That is the reason guitar adds flavor to playing notes and that is why guitar is more complicated and spicy in playing.

However on a 24 fret guitar, there are only 49 notes ( 4 octaves x 12 notes + 1^st note ), In the usual tables we might get to the 4^th octave rarely. But the illustrative figure shows a hidden framework of the guitar fretboard and its limitless possibilities. (Division of guitar into 4 Octaves). This division is based on the frequencies of 12 participating notes of the octaves.

COMPLETE FRETBOARD CHART WITH OCTAVES HERE

Python is the preferred choice of programming language for Music Recognition. It is the machine learning's safe haven. Here in this section I will discuss the various python resources, tools and modules available for research such as ours.

1. The first resource I want to mention is the Jython Music. It is an interesting package for Music Recognition and Transcription.

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