Looking for techniques for memorise notes on the fretboard.

The way I did it was I made a little routine to go thru every time I picked up the guitar.
Take each string and go up the fretboard to 12th and say to myself E,F,F#,G,G#,A,A#,B,C,C#,D,D#,E. Then go back down saying E,Eb,D,Db,C,B,Bb,A,Ab,G,Gb,F,E. Recite the sharps going up and the flats going back down on each string. Only took a couple of weeks to get em all down.
Combined with:
Take any random note, say D, and find all the Ds on the fretboard. Pretty soon you'll be able to find all locations of any note.
 
Pine Apple Slim said:
The way I did it was I made a little routine to go thru every time I picked up the guitar.
Take each string and go up the fretboard to 12th and say to myself E,F,F#,G,G#,A,A#,B,C,C#,D,D#,E. Then go back down saying E,Eb,D,Db,C,B,Bb,A,Ab,G,Gb,F,E. Recite the sharps going up and the flats going back down on each string. Only took a couple of weeks to get em all down.
Combined with:
Take any random note, say D, and find all the Ds on the fretboard. Pretty soon you'll be able to find all locations of any note.
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Excellent, I've have begun and will inform you of progress. Cheers, Beans

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Kerouac said:
Learn your octave shapes, which makes crossing strings easier.


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Yeah done this. But just makes moving around easier, I just end up remembering and relying on the pattern rather than memorising where notes are. But thank you anyway.

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wheresmybeans said:
Yeah done this. But just makes moving around easier, I just end up remembering and relying on the pattern rather than memorising where notes are. But thank you anyway.

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If you know the 5 caged shapes, you can identify the octaves with ease. That will combine you pattern recognition as well.

Try this little game learning the octave notations.

1) Make flash cards of all 12 notes.
2) Set timer to 30 seconds
3) Shuffle flash cards and open first one
4) Find all those notes.
5) If you can do it in less than a 30 seconds, begin to reduce the time.
 
you really should try the fretboard warrior link I posted. It's a great exercise for when you are at the computer and don't have a guitar in hand.
 
335clone said:
you really should try the fretboard warrior link I posted. It's a great exercise for when you are at the computer and don't have a guitar in hand.
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Why? You haven't told me anything it does. You've just asked me to download it.

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Ok, what it does is pick a note on the fretboard for you to identify and tells you if you are right or wrong. It's a bit like a game. You pick the amount of time (2, 5 or 10 minutes I think) it places a dot on the fretboard and gives an audible tone for reference, and you click on the proper note name arrayed below the fretboard. When the time is up, it gives you total right/wrong.

It looks thusly

Fretboard-Warrior_1.png
 
335clone said:
Ok, what it does is pick a note on the fretboard for you to identify and tells you if you are right or wrong. It's a bit like a game. You pick the amount of time (2, 5 or 10 minutes I think) it places a dot on the fretboard and gives an audible tone for reference, and you click on the proper note name arrayed below the fretboard. When the time is up, it gives you total right/wrong.

It looks thusly

Fretboard-Warrior_1.png
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Sounds good, may come in useful to check my progress objectively. Thanks.

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