Memorizing The Fretboard

Memorizing The Fretboard GuitarTricks.com [Demonstration] Hey guys welcome to the Guitar Tricks Channel Neal Walter your host. We got another lesson for you this week and the tip of the week is sliding into notes. This is really handy with lead playing check it out if you’re doing this little riff right here for example but it sounds really cool if you slide into it and slide out of it. It adds a little more excitement check it out. On our lesson of the week memorizing the fret board this thing right here where all your fingers go. When I learn stuff I like to take it by the simplest parts first so I’m going to give you some really easy memory tips. Basically everything from here to here is repeated from here to here and these notes we’ll be the same as the ones from here so you can forget about all this part. Also you’ve got 2 strings that are the same. The E and E’s whatever you learn on this string is going to be the same on this string so that’s get through to that one. What I would tell you to do is focus on the lower 2 strings the E and the A because most of the chords you play are going to be rooted on those notes anyway. Now the best way to find your place on the fret board is with fret markers isn’t that what they’re there for. Their nice and easy, they’re simple notes to remember on the E string you have the GAB and on the A string you have the C, D, and E. Now what I would recommend is memorizing the notes on the E and A string first you can start with these markers if you like because this is where most chords the root is based on these strings. Now for the next strings the D and G string I like to use an Octave which is basically skipping a string and skipping a fret you know if you’re playing a power chord like this it took out that note if you have an octave which means that these two notes are the same. This one is just an octave higher. So if you know the notes on the EA string are and you’re up on the D strings you’re like what’s this note you through an octave down and go like oh that’s a B and then the same thing on the G string like what’s this note threw an octave down here like oh that’s a B and that way you’ve covered all 4 strings. Now the only one left is the odd ball, the B. So what I like to do to remember on the B with notes are is you know the tuning trick when you press down with this string between the E, well that tells you that this is an E. So all the notes that you learned on the E string are going to apply from this part forward you got E, F, G, A and B. And from here on up everything repeats. Now this exercise isn’t designed to tell you all the notes in the fret board with it right away but what it is designed to do is to give you an anchor and a reference point so that you can start moving around quickly in the fret board and know where you are and then using these chips you can like add in and fill in the spots in between as you go along and this will be the good anchor to refer back to always so hopefully this helps. We’ll be back here on 7 days finest leave me a request at the forum Guitar Tricks.com. YouTube, Facebook, MySpace and Twitter like off there we’re everywhere.