Originally Posted by: DraconusJLM"Going backwards", or anti-clockwise, is known as the "circle of 4ths".
Going forwards, or clockwise, is 5ths.
Yup. And that's why the Circle of 5this backwards (making it - as you say - the Circle of 4ths) works to learn the fretboard because a guitar is tuned to 4ths.
Gary
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