Hi folks.
I've been learning for 18 months now and am still making really good, noticeable progress and my motivation to keep learning is as high as ever. But I really want to get into learning theory to go with my practice so that I can hopefully apply this to come up with my own stuff as well as just learn scales and songs I know etc. I do make up wee riffs and stuff already though, but very limited ones and I'm hoping that learning theory would open things out much more for me.
One of the key goals I've had is to learn the notes on the board and I still can't find a good way of doing this to make it interesting. I just count up the neck saying the notes and get bored after no time at all. Is there a more interesting way to do this? I downloaded JustinGuitar's app for this but even then I find it hard work to actually apply myself to do it.
I think i just need to suck it up and old-school memorise this stuff... but it would be great if anyone had any tips to help me along.
Thanks.
Andy
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Maybe you only need to know the common keys?
I started in my teenage years, learning each position with Classical guitar lessons, it took many, many years, I don't think you can learn the whole fretboard quickly and retain the information. I learned a bit at a time, played the same melodies, but in every position and different keys. I used to play a lot of Jazz standards, so knowing the fretboard was fairly essential.
If you're interested in 3NPS, there's a whole series of lessons here:
http://thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/43139/learning-the-fretboard-using-3-notes-per-string-patterns-3nps/p1
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1st is same as 6th, only leaves 3
4th is same as 6th but down a tone
3rd is same as 5th but down a tone
2nd is the only one really (same as 5th up a tone)
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Play and name the Open note of a string and then play and name all the notes on the 1st 4 frets of that string, starting with the 6th string, I repeat for each of the other strings. I then play and name all the notes on the 6th string from the 5th to the 8th fret and then repeat for the other strings. I do this all the way up the neck.
Another thing I've just started to do is only play the notes of the C Major scale up and down each individual string. I then play the A natural minor, A Harmonic minor and then the A melodic minor scales along each string. I've noticed that the Sharps of the Harmonic minor and the sharps up/naturals down of the Melodic minor scales are making me slow down and take more notice of where my fingers are and so keeping my attention on what I'm doing.