Members Rumble Bass Posted April 26, 2009 Members Share Posted April 26, 2009 Are there any good methods to learning all the notes on the fretboard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Jed Posted April 26, 2009 Moderators Share Posted April 26, 2009 This question is brought up a lot. Have you tried the search function? There's a lot of good information that already been posted on this topic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jeremy_green Posted April 26, 2009 Members Share Posted April 26, 2009 sight reading - the best bar none Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rumble Bass Posted April 26, 2009 Author Members Share Posted April 26, 2009 I did try the search and didnt come up with anything. I will try again, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members PigWings_v2.0 Posted April 27, 2009 Members Share Posted April 27, 2009 http://www.studybass.com/tools/chord-scale-note-printer/ Select guitar and print out a diagram. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Jed Posted April 27, 2009 Moderators Share Posted April 27, 2009 I did try the search and didnt come up with anything. I will try again, thanks. Try searching for "notes learn" (without the quotes)in the Lesson Loft. That should produce lots of stuff to read. cheers, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nckeyz Posted April 27, 2009 Members Share Posted April 27, 2009 All good suggestions so far... I've leaned more towards the memorization route string-by-string. It's kind of boring but it seems to be working. Learning scales beyond just the patterns has helped too. Learning triads has helped too. Here's another different fretboard note chart if you are interested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Knottyhed Posted April 27, 2009 Members Share Posted April 27, 2009 Use as many approaches as possible :-) Another good one is to learn it in terms of intervals. Play a note, then play all the minor 3rds, perfect 4ths etc. etc. etc. sing them as you play them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wu ming Posted April 27, 2009 Members Share Posted April 27, 2009 Learn it in positions as classical guitar teaches. print out a chart of the neck and work out basic triad chords all over the neck, ceg= c major chord how many can you locate.? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mikey4402 Posted April 28, 2009 Members Share Posted April 28, 2009 learn the diatonic notes (CDEFGAB) first then learn the sharps/flats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bigboy_78 Posted April 28, 2009 Members Share Posted April 28, 2009 I agree with Jeremy, nothing beats reading standard notation to force you to learn where the notes are. Plus you'll learn heaps of tunes along the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jasco Posted April 28, 2009 Members Share Posted April 28, 2009 Hire a guitar tutor who is bigger than you. Give him a 4' section of garden hose. Then do the 'garden hose note naming drill': Improvise a short phrase (6-8 notes). Then you have 5 seconds to say the notes. If you take to long, or miss any note names, said guitar tutor hits you upside the head with the garden hose. Do this in all areas of the neck. I fully guarantee you will learn your notes extremely quickly. Next best methods are sight reading and learning basic major and minor arpeggios/chords all over the neck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GreenAsJade Posted April 28, 2009 Members Share Posted April 28, 2009 I'm starting to get convinced that sight reading is the way to go. Where does one start for a nice collection of useful transcriptions for this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jasco Posted April 28, 2009 Members Share Posted April 28, 2009 I'm starting to get convinced that sight reading is the way to go. That's what most folks say after one 'garden hose note naming drill'. Where does one start for a nice collection of useful transcriptions for this? J S Bach might be a nice place to start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jeremy_green Posted April 28, 2009 Members Share Posted April 28, 2009 read anything. just make sure you read pieces in parts of the neck where you need work. It doesn't take that long just a regular effort Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Virgman Posted April 28, 2009 Members Share Posted April 28, 2009 9,572 hours of hose whipping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SlaveNewWorld0 Posted April 28, 2009 Members Share Posted April 28, 2009 I remember when misspelling "the" resulted in "teh" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jasco Posted April 28, 2009 Members Share Posted April 28, 2009 9,572 hours of hose whipping.While the 'garden hose' thing was a joke, I think there is something to be said for instructors who don't sugar coat anything and hold you accountable for doing work.One time, during my first guitar lesson with a teacher, he had me play something at the beginning of the lesson. Afterwords he told me I sucked and I should want to play like him. (Also, that my guitar sucked and I should want to get a guitar like his.) I would have walked out of there right then except for one thing... He was exactly 100% correct. He ended up being a great teacher and I ended up learning a lot.I had another teacher for a while who had this policy: Pay in advance. Play as much as you want during the lesson. Lesson lasts one hour or until you hit your first wrong note, whichever comes first.After you pay for your first 30 second lesson, you start to consider what you are playing a bit more carefully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jeremy_green Posted April 28, 2009 Members Share Posted April 28, 2009 Ha! Jasco that is both funny and awesome! There is no question the hard ugly truth is always the best for anyone who is serious. Hearing "Oh you sounded great!" is really unhelpful (and can usually be had by the pound from family/friends and "ladies of the evening") If you want to get better you need the truth - and it hurts most times. I know I have a long way to go - so why would I be upset when somebody at a higher level points that out? It doesnt mean that they dont acknowledge and understand the distance i have made. Sounds like you have had some good teachers. Your attitude, advice and playing shows it to bro! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pawsable Posted April 28, 2009 Members Share Posted April 28, 2009 try the guitar trainer, here's the link:http://www.musictheory.net/trainers/html/id81_en.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 2732 Posted April 28, 2009 Members Share Posted April 28, 2009 learn scales Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jeremy_green Posted April 28, 2009 Members Share Posted April 28, 2009 learn scales I disagree - This wont be that effective. The reason why I feel reading sheet music works so well to internalize the neck is because it forces you to see the note then play it. You dont know what note the piece will call for next AND you need to play it in time. Kind of like using flash cards... but musical ones. You need to have a note called out and hit it within the scope of the beat. I have used those neck "games" and they work to a degree but I find that they dont nail it in because the learning is happening without your hands on the instrument. So why not just use flash cards you ask? You can ... but they are difficult to set in a musical example and besides if you are going to this effort why not learn to read while you are at it? They do the same thing only - reading will help you in many many ways as a musician. Most people just avoid reading cause it isnt 100% awesomely fun. Not fun all the time just doesnt seem to be acceptable these days. So folks will generally avoid it and slag it, tell me Hendrix couldnt read, and all that. You are here to become a better guitarist no? You want to learn your neck - really? Top to bottom? on the fly? It isn't a secret - Learn to read in all positions Honestly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GreenAsJade Posted April 28, 2009 Members Share Posted April 28, 2009 J S Bach might be a nice place to start. Sure - I'd like that. I have various books of Bach for piano, but I think it will be labourious to figure out which ones are amenable for this. So if anyone has pointers to transcriptions of Bach that are "perfect for the job" .... please post pointers, would be muchy appreciated.! GaJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members halfwhole Posted April 29, 2009 Members Share Posted April 29, 2009 set the metronome to like 40 or 30 bpm start on C, play all the Cs on the E string, then A, D G,B e...in time with the click. then go around the circle of 5ths or 4ths. that's how i learned the neck a few years ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jonPhillips Posted April 29, 2009 Members Share Posted April 29, 2009 So if anyone has pointers to transcriptions of Bach that are "perfect for the job" .... please post pointers, would be muchy appreciated.!GaJ Try looking here. Fantastic resource for sheet music in the public domain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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