Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 3:58 pm Post subject: Learning the notes on the fretboard
So, I just got this idea the other day of how to learn the notes of the fretboard naturally (ie, in context). I don't know if something like this has been posted before, but I did a search and couldn't find anything, so here it goes.
Instead of sitting down and forcefully trying to learn the fretboard one fret at a time, make a tab book and write out tabs. Transcribe as much music as possible, and then use your tabs to play the music (kinda like sight reading). The catch is that instead of using numbers to indicate what frets to play, use note names! It's really quite intuitive. There's only two places to play each note on a string, the lower octave, and the higher, so you could notate that too, if you need to. Here's an example:
I think this is a pretty good idea, though I could see people getting lazy with it. In the end, I think you just have to grin down and bare it, take some time and learn the notes.
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