Learning the fretboard!

Hi all, anyone have any tips on memorizing the notes on the fretboard? I have been playing for more than 10 years and the only notes I know are the roots of the chord I am playing.

Any tips for practice?

Check this out:

Know Your Notes (http://www.zentao.com/guitar/theory/notes.html)

Try this: http://www.fretboard-trainer.com/guitar-fretboard-trainer.html

Knowing the root of the chord you're playing's a start. Next time you're strumming around at home, pick a chord and name all the notes in it. For instance an open c major chord would go (from the 5th string) x C E G C E

Try this: http://www.fretboard-trainer.com/guitar-fretboard-trainer.html

That's USELESS!! It only goes up to the 12th fret!

:-P

The way that worked for me was trying to play sheet music. Work on your reading and your fretboard mapping at the same time. And play some tunes.

flashcards.

seriously...one with every note...set a timer for 30 secs..pull a card...find all of em...

next week, 20 seconds on the timer.

flashcards.

seriously...one with every note...set a timer for 30 secs..pull a card...find all of em...

next week, 20 seconds on the timer.

That sounds like a good one! I like the speed factor because that's my main problem... as Bob Dylan said: No time to think! :-)

Go thru the circle of fifths, find the notes for a particular key on each successive string, going thru all notes until you are back at the string you started on. For example, for the key of F, find:

F on 6th S
G on 5th S
A on 4th S
Bb on 3rd S
C on 2nd S
D on 1st
E on 6th
F on 5th
G on 4th
etc...
until you are back to F on 6th String. Go thru all the keys with this same 'round' technique. I like this study as it has a definite beginning and ending, you start and finish on the same string...

Another good study: find all the F's on the fretboard. All the C's, all the D's, all the Ab's, etc.

At first it will be painfully slow, but just work thru it and you WILL improve.

That's USELESS!! It only goes up to the 12th fret!

:-P

Ya, you'll need a capo after that.

Meh, everyone knows there's no money beyond the fifth fret.

Know which notes are whole steps and half steps then its easy from there.

Try this...without using open strings and not going past the 12th fret pick a note, any note, and find that note on all 6 strings. Now with a metronome play those notes in time up and then down.

Pick another note and repeat until you've found all the notes. It's best to pick the notes at random rather then to pick them in order. Although going around the cycle of 5th's would be good.

Repeat faster and faster soon you will have a good handle on the fingerboard!

Have Fun!

Learn the the c major scale on every string, so on the the e string you start of with the open e, then f on the first fret , g on the 3. fret ect