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Use the dots on the neck as landmarks to help you memorize positions of notes
So we know where the EADGBE are on open strings.
On the 3rd fret, GCFxDG, so for me, thats “Gibson caught Fender (x) Drinking Gin”
On the 5th fret, it is ADGCEA, or because i’m stupid, “All Day, Guys Cant Eat Avacado”.
On the 7th fret, it gets spells BEADxB
On the 9th, xxBExx
The 10th is DGCFAD, or obviously, “Drinking Gin Cant Fix All Days”.
B & C always live together (half step apart, so one fret, not two), as do E & F....blame that on the piano...
The above has helped me with using moveable shapes, particularly with the root note on the low E and the A.
I’m also trying to learn other voicings for chords, so that i’m not so much at the campfire end of the neck all the time.
Every day is a schoolday.
“Theory is something that is written down after the music has been made so we can explain it to others”– Levi Clay
https://www.fachords.com/tools/fretboard-trainer/
Circle of 4ths up and down the strings BEADGCFBbEbAbDbGbCbFb
as above I got used to the 2 lower strings from power and barre chords, octaves means you’re always using another position as a reference.
that fretboard trainer is actually quite good you get to know where a note is by rote
it works really well too
Most guitarists know the note names of the sixth sting and the fifth string due to playing power chords and barre chords.
Then doing the diagonal/octave thing gets you the names on the fourth and third strings (easy). I found the second string the hardest to remember because the pattern isn't so obvious, but D for dot (3rd fret) gets you going. There's also a backwards diagonal pattern (D on the fifth string fifth fret= D 2nd string 3rd fret etc).
Anyway, I used to play games, find a note on the 6th, then find the same note name on the fifth, then fourth etc. Once you know where all the notes are it starts to get easier to recognise intervals.
Hope that makes sense.
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Once you know the fretboard well, reading music notation is a lot less daunting.
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