Color-code The Neck Of The Guitar Too

Each note on the major scale is color-coded on the neck using the same colors used formerly in this website. The colors start at the nut of the guitar:

F=Brown,
G=green,
A=red,
B=Blue*,
C=yellow,
D=black,
E=White

A guitar with the word " abc " written on it.

We color-code the neck for these reasons:

  1. What the dots on the neck placed there by the manufacturer are supposed to indicate is there is a key note on the marked fret. But the markings don’t tell you the name of the note. When you color-code the dots, you know the exact note that goes with that dot. For example, the red dot is A and the black dot is D. You don’t have to count up the dots to know what note the dot represents. Meaning, if you need to play an E chord, you know exactly where to place it. Better yet, if you use the F-shaped chord, you can produce all the chords of the major scale by moving that chord shape to the color you want (see examples). 
    Sculpture holding a guitar
  2. If you are drawing chords above the words of a song, you need only to draw the frets you are using, because the markers are colored, not all the same. If you are using non-colored dots you may need to draw eight frets in order to have a usable marker (see the chord drawing examples). (rotate this drawing counter-clockwise 90 degrees)
    Sculpture holding a guitar
  3. And if you are using chords in the middle of the neck, you have a much better feel for where you are if the marker dots are colored.