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I've never found those diagrams of all the notes on the fretboard particularly useful. The method in that video is one of a number of similar approaches based on tackling it parrot fashion one note at a time. I guess that may work for some but I've never done it.
Touch typing and playing a piano both benefit from a static/consistent layout. On the other hand a fretboard is more like QWERTY in one position and Dvorak a few frets along.
I would suggest getting familiar with the way the notes sit in relation to each other by interval, the octave patterns across the strings, the fourth/fifth, major/minor third etc.
For example in standard tuning, the interval between the notes on any pair of strings (from low to high) is a fourth except for between the third and second strings where it's a major third.
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I take the point about it being more interesting to learn the fretboard by making music rather than doing it by rote with a metronome.
But yes, learning to read music is excellent. If you start with a classical guitar book aimed at children you can blow through it pretty quickly, although those books tend to stick with open position for a very long time. You'll know the first three frets inside out though.
Tell yourself all notes have sharps except B and E .... at this point you don't need to worry about whether a note is a sharp or flat
Identify every A note on every string, use the dot markers to help you remember where they are. Just concentrate on A's until you can find all of them across all the strings in 5 seconds or less.
Once you got that find all the C's ...... then all the E's
From there you mind is normally able to fill in the gaps between all the known notes on the fretboard in the same way we drive down the street and know no 24 is 2 doors down from no 20 .... we don't need to see no 24 written on the door if it's 2 doors from a known landmark no 20.
Use fretmarkers to help and also a bit of theory .......... on the 4 larger strings they are tuned a fourth apart so finding a D (a fourth higher than an A ) is as easy as same fret as A but next string. An F is a fourth higher than a C so same fret next string ..... only time this dosen't apply is the B string in relation to the G string as this is tuned a lower third in relation to the G string, not a fourth
Once you know where all the notes are then you learn the simple formula for building simple chords and that is
Root, third, fifth so in key of C then C=1 D=2 E=3 F=4 G=5 A=6 B=7 C=8
So to build a simple C chord we need a C, an E and a G .... you know where those notes are so you can then find shapes you like all over the neck.
I've not been teaching long so I'm still learning how to teach but that method above seems to be quite easy to grasp and students seem to be able to find the notes quick quickly despite only really spending time mastering the location of only a few.
A longer term goal is really not to think about any of that and you should be able to to any note straight away
Another way is Learn one new note everyday .. so maybe 5th fret learn each note on the strings accros that fret it would take 5 days ....then repeat... before long you will be able to name them fairly quickly
Maybe put all the notes in a box and pick one out at a time going to that note straight away ...use the octave approach to find the others
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It’s also useful when communicating with other musicians. Really, it’s about knowing your instrument.