I think I have said to you before but I really love your teaching style. This channel will grow I am sure, be patient, you'll see it take of if you do. Keep in touch and have a fun time. Great video Steve
I’ve just watched 3 videos with trying to learn notes on the fretboard. This is the one that made the most sense. I’ll be using this lesson to learn the fretboard.
I love lessons from Andy Wood and Levi Clay, but you and Scott Paul Johnson have lessons that are so darned practical they actually CHANGE the student. You're a rockstar of a teacher. (As well as an impressive player). Ive played by ear for decades and paid the rent from playing live years ago but Im learning a lot from you I just never thought I'd need to know. But to get any better i need to learn new things. Thank you for your hard work
Agreed... I think thats what I enjoy the most about the guitar, is that you never stop learning...I’ve been playing for over 30yrs and I’m just now getting around to memorizing all the notes on the fretboard...it’s killing me!!!!
Adrian, your lessons are really good. You are a great teacher! I am a 65 yearlong High School teacher and coach. Keep up the good work, you are much appreciated. Just made my first donation on your site.
just stumbled across this and couldn't have been more timely. I am at the exact stage you mentioned currently. I can work out all of the notes with little time but was at a loss for how to cement them in instantly...brilliant!!
I just found this channel and I am going to share it with every guitar player I know. You explain things extremely well and provide context and lots of practical application. Great channel! I can't wait for the new videos. In the meantime I'll be working my way through your catalog.
Brilliant example of deliberate practice. You can do it more quickly. You can check your performance easily. You can repeat it. You can so it with all notes day by day. Also helps your ear. So simple yet I guess it would be very effective.
This is something I need to learn but have been putting it off for years!! Now Im ready to take it to the next level. Thanks for the video! Tired of just noodling and relying on my ear!
I definitely fall into the category of people you described... I sort of muddle my way around and have to think about the trickier notes :-) Thanks for the lesson.
I use to teach my elementary students guitar through Little Kids Rock. For memorizing the open strings I came up with Every Angel Does Good Before Easter. Works on the bass too, but without the last two words.
I will try. It is the first exercise I have found on the subject that allows to start slowly and progress in small bites. All other methods basically are just mnemonics. Thanks Adrian
I really appreciate your videos and your commitment to keep everything free, yet very well done. Please keep them coming, especially on Country stuff :-)
I never tried it that way. It looks like a good and easy way to learn. I need to learn them my blues dvd said dont start till i know all the notes on the fret board. And i want to get on that this winter when i am inside the house a lot.
yeah, no kidding! 43 years of guitar for me and the first time I see this method! I am on it. I know some of the notes but I'm always counting up or down from the more familiar ones.
I really got to tell you that your teaching style is amazingly good. I am growing on my guitar knowledge and skills listening and watching you. BTW, where were you in 1972 when I first started playing? Keep up the good work and again thank you!!!
It would help if you would highlight which finger or thumb you are pressing so we know where you are. All fingers side by side masks the note finger unless we know exactly where the note is. We learners don’t always see and know. Thanks ears. That’s why we’re here. Thanks, you are way up there and for me, I’m way down here.
Probably the best early lesson I was given, the notes, and how they work on the fretboard. A B C D E F G, a half step between B-C and a half step between E-F. Whole step between the others. That leads to the major scales, etc. To give someone a fish, or teach them how to fish....
I remember when I was a teenager and I was learning guitar, without internet or books. This is how I was doing this, but without knowing what note it actually is. Most important thing was where to find it on the fingerboard.
Waiting patiently for the video with all the answers.😉 Great video I needed a kick in the pants to consider what I want to improve on this year. Also good to see we agree on the perfect string and gauge.
I've learned the notes on a guitar prior to viewing this excellent video. I've used the exact same approach as proposed in this video, but I've devised the method independently, after much thought. This is the correct method if you want to learn rapidly and be able to utilize the skill effortlessly. I believe this is the most important tool for a guitarist to learn, and it should be learned as early as possible, the sooner the better, as it will synergistically help your overall advancement as a guitarist & musician.
this looks like a cool way to learn them, i have been playing for a little white, i know my diatonic and where to find the roots just as you explained but I've never bothered to learn the notes, now i want to get more into phrasing etc I'm finding it hard not knowing them! thanks dude! would you be willing to listen to my soundcloud and give me some pointers?
This immediately appealed to me as the way that I am going to finally be able to learn all of the notes on the fingureboard. So, thanks for that, Adrian. I wondered if it makes sense to add an element in order to learn the positions for guitar fretboards that do not have any kind of fretboard markings (dots, and so on). Perhaps this is not necessary, but I am a little worried that I will learn where certain notes are relative to the fret markings (this has already happened to me, to an extent). So, my suggestion would be to say out loud the note and fret number when fretting a note on a particular string. For example, for the C note, starting on the low E (6th. string), one could say "C - 8th. fret; C - 20th.; (then for the 5th. string) C - 3rd., C - 15th.", and so on. What do you think? Does this makes sense?
Glad you liked this video. Yes, feel free to come up with your own variations on this idea. I do like the idea of saying the note and fret number out loud. That would also be a good exercise to try whilst away from you guitar, visualising the fretboard mentally.
Yes, that is what I have been doing. And to aid this process without making a mistake, I add 12 to the first occurrence of a note, in order to know for certain at what fret the note next occurs. For example, I say "Fifth string, C, third fret, and immediately know that the next C is at the fifteenth fret (3 + 12 = 15).
I thought telecasters were very uncool until I saw what Will Sergeant of the bunnymen could do with one. Now I think its the best guitar ever. I just wish I had an esquire like Syd Barrett instead though but they are too damn expensive and dont wanna destroy my Tele to change the wiring
Thanks, Adrian. Recently I was trying to play some songs in keys with sharps and struggled to find the sharp chords. I think this is due to learning the fretboard as having flats rather than both flats and sharps. I was surprised at how disoriented I was by this. And had to spend a bit of time afterward working on my sharp keys. In doing this I revisited the Circle of Fifths chart. I made some observations that I hadn't previously. C major, as we all know has no sharps or flats. But all the other non-flat letter keys, with the exception of F are sharp keys. The key of F has one sharp. All the other letter keys, G, A, B, D, and E have sharps. The enharmonic keys share names and have the most sharps and flats. Db/C#, Gb/F# and Cb/B. These contain the only two sharp key names. (C#/F#) Do you have any thoughts about this sharps and flats phenomenon? Especially in reference to mastering the fretboard.
Thinking in using this method first with the help of those fretboard stickers. Not sure if that would make it harder to memorize notes properly though.
I just came across your channel and this lesson is very valuable. I am trying to figure out when trying to read music, how do you know which note to string position you are supposed to play . I know this is basic but if I could work this out, it would help. Also, I can read the basic scale but when you start having notes off the scale, it becomes very confusing. Any tips?
Thanks a lot for this video, Adrian! However, when you write (on your website): "Make this a part of your regular practice routine and in a month or two you’ll have no problem *instantly* identifying any note on the guitar", you scare the hell out of me! I've been working on this every day for more than two months and I do have problems to *instantly* identify many notes on the fretboard: when "I shoot in the dark", i.e. put a finger at a random place on the neck without looking, it still often requires some thinking and counting from a known note. My brain may be defective... :(
Ha, yes maybe that was a bit of an overly optimistic statement. I suppose these things take as long as they take which is different for everyone. Just make learning the fretboard a small, regular part of your practice, stick with it and you'll get there.
@@acpg Thanks for your encouragement, Adrian! I'll stick with it. Also, I've noticed that varying the exercices help, as it forces you to concentrate: after a time, playing a given note from 6th string to 1st and back can become pretty easy (automatic) but that doesn't mean you've fully memorised the location of the note; rather a pattern. Finding the same note starting from the lowest possible fret and going up and down the neck makes it clear. So I've added this exercice, plus learning all the notes at a given fret, etc.
I think I have said to you before but I really love your teaching style. This channel will grow I am sure, be patient, you'll see it take of if you do. Keep in touch and have a fun time. Great video
Steve
I’ve just watched 3 videos with trying to learn notes on the fretboard. This is the one that made the most sense. I’ll be using this lesson to learn the fretboard.
I have seen many techniques to memorizing fretboard. THIS ONE works best. Thanks.
I love lessons from Andy Wood and Levi Clay, but you and Scott Paul Johnson have lessons that are so darned practical they actually CHANGE the student. You're a rockstar of a teacher. (As well as an impressive player). Ive played by ear for decades and paid the rent from playing live years ago but Im learning a lot from you I just never thought I'd need to know. But to get any better i need to learn new things. Thank you for your hard work
Agreed... I think thats what I enjoy the most about the guitar, is that you never stop learning...I’ve been playing for over 30yrs and I’m just now getting around to memorizing all the notes on the fretboard...it’s killing me!!!!
this guy is hands down SUPER COOL. his lessons (the handful i've seen so far) are also extremely instructional
Love your teaching methods. Clear, concise & not rushed. Thanx.
KAMMHRON !! You’re a picture scares me
Adrian, your lessons are really good. You are a great teacher! I am a 65 yearlong High School teacher and coach. Keep up the good work, you are much appreciated. Just made my first donation on your site.
just stumbled across this and couldn't have been more timely. I am at the exact stage you mentioned currently. I can work out all of the notes with little time but was at a loss for how to cement them in instantly...brilliant!!
I'm currently working on this stuff at this time. Trying to learn in pairs. Thanks buddy 😎👍👌💯. I'm 61
I just found this channel and I am going to share it with every guitar player I know. You explain things extremely well and provide context and lots of practical application. Great channel! I can't wait for the new videos. In the meantime I'll be working my way through your catalog.
Thanks Chris, really glad to hear you've been enjoying my videos!
Brilliant example of deliberate practice. You can do it more quickly. You can check your performance easily. You can repeat it. You can so it with all notes day by day. Also helps your ear. So simple yet I guess it would be very effective.
i always wondered how am i gonna learn all the fret notes! so never got round to it, this is awesome thank you!!
This is something I need to learn but have been putting it off for years!! Now Im ready to take it to the next level. Thanks for the video! Tired of just noodling and relying on my ear!
You are a very gifted instructor.
You have a awesome 1st name 😁.
Another excellent lesson. Makes good sense. Thanks.
That's a good exercise, it's exactly what I need to help me find my way when trying to solo following chord changes. Thanks.
I definitely fall into the category of people you described... I sort of muddle my way around and have to think about the trickier notes :-) Thanks for the lesson.
This is an amazing way of learning notes, it allows you to learn a new note each week until you have covered all.
I use to teach my elementary students guitar through Little Kids Rock. For memorizing the open strings I came up with Every Angel Does Good Before Easter. Works on the bass too, but without the last two words.
Nice simple instruction. Cool t-shirt too, love TP.
I will try. It is the first exercise I have found on the subject that allows to start slowly and progress in small bites. All other methods basically are just mnemonics. Thanks Adrian
now try his power chord vid....youll take off
Much harder than you think. Excellent lesson. Now part of my regular routine!
Im watching this the 24 February and Adrian seems to know it.
This was great, thanks for your time and passion.
All the best. :)
I think, this is actually a really great method. Simple and easy. Thanks very much.
I thank you for this very interesting lesson.Greetings from Italy.
I like your teaching style too. Please keep doing what you're doing. This lesson looks very helpful. Thanks a ton.
I really appreciate your videos and your commitment to keep everything free, yet very well done. Please keep them coming, especially on Country stuff :-)
Thank you Adrian
Thanks for all your videos!
I never tried it that way. It looks like a good and easy way to learn. I need to learn them my blues dvd said dont start till i know all the notes on the fret board. And i want to get on that this winter when i am inside the house a lot.
Great video, pretty simple, I was looking for an easy video to remember the notes. Much appreciated.
Good idea and method,nice step by step method
Great learning technique!
What a great exercise. Wish I had thought of it. Thanks!
you are an excellent teacher, this is a great method, than you for sharing
Your hard core Bro
Thank you for posting this and your other helpful and informative vids.
Another great great lesson! I'll definitely be applying this! Thank you!
Such a better way of learning, this! way more fun too.
Great and very useful lesson! Thanks
Great idea. It's good to do this with a dotted 8th delay so the whole thing grooves along with the metronome.
So understated, and you give so much. Thanks!
Unflashy and brilliant as usual Adrian
I'm really pissed off. I wish I'd been told this forty five years ago.
yeah, no kidding! 43 years of guitar for me and the first time I see this method! I am on it. I know some of the notes but I'm always counting up or down from the more familiar ones.
@@ioodyssey3740 When Adrian showed the basic two string up to the octave at the beginning I realized that I'm busted!
I really got to tell you that your teaching style is amazingly good. I am growing on my guitar knowledge and skills listening and watching you. BTW, where were you in 1972 when I first started playing? Keep up the good work and again thank you!!!
thanks for your lesson, hopefully i will finally learn all fretnotes using this!
It would help if you would highlight which finger or thumb you are pressing so we know where you are. All fingers side by side masks the note finger unless we know exactly where the note is. We learners don’t always see and know. Thanks ears. That’s why we’re here. Thanks, you are way up there and for me, I’m way down here.
Probably the best early lesson I was given, the notes, and how they work on the fretboard. A B C D E F G, a half step between B-C and a half step between E-F. Whole step between the others. That leads to the major scales, etc. To give someone a fish, or teach them how to fish....
I remember when I was a teenager and I was learning guitar, without internet or books. This is how I was doing this, but without knowing what note it actually is. Most important thing was where to find it on the fingerboard.
yes exactly! I remember that too ^^
@@Aniki82 You can't forget that feeling. Eureka!
Thank you! this is so easy and it all makes sense now.
i love the lights behind you turn them on
I love this guy.
Waiting patiently for the video with all the answers.😉 Great video I needed a kick in the pants to consider what I want to improve on this year. Also good to see we agree on the perfect string and gauge.
What a fab idea. I'm 67, wonder if I have any chance of mastering this? Thank you!
sometimes there is a little smile on your face that is saying "you're going to die before you really know all the notes on that freaking freatboard"
I've learned the notes on a guitar prior to viewing this excellent video. I've used the exact same approach as proposed in this video, but I've devised the method independently, after much thought. This is the correct method if you want to learn rapidly and be able to utilize the skill effortlessly. I believe this is the most important tool for a guitarist to learn, and it should be learned as early as possible, the sooner the better, as it will synergistically help your overall advancement as a guitarist & musician.
Brilliant mate. Thanks.
Thanks Alf.
Great video. Thank you from 2020!
Bravo ! Maestro I will apply this !
yes yes yes finally somebody did it right
this looks like a cool way to learn them, i have been playing for a little white, i know my diatonic and where to find the roots just as you explained but I've never bothered to learn the notes, now i want to get more into phrasing etc I'm finding it hard not knowing them! thanks dude! would you be willing to listen to my soundcloud and give me some pointers?
Now thats a gr8 way to learn the notes thanks
Good practice tip, thanks!
You are the absolute best!
Thanks.
Adrian, thankyou
Sounds like excellent advice
This immediately appealed to me as the way that I am going to finally be able to learn all of the notes on the fingureboard. So, thanks for that, Adrian.
I wondered if it makes sense to add an element in order to learn the positions for guitar fretboards that do not have any kind of fretboard markings (dots, and so on). Perhaps this is not necessary, but I am a little worried that I will learn where certain notes are relative to the fret markings (this has already happened to me, to an extent).
So, my suggestion would be to say out loud the note and fret number when fretting a note on a particular string. For example, for the C note, starting on the low E (6th. string), one could say "C - 8th. fret; C - 20th.; (then for the 5th. string) C - 3rd., C - 15th.", and so on.
What do you think? Does this makes sense?
Glad you liked this video. Yes, feel free to come up with your own variations on this idea. I do like the idea of saying the note and fret number out loud. That would also be a good exercise to try whilst away from you guitar, visualising the fretboard mentally.
Yes, that is what I have been doing. And to aid this process without making a mistake, I add 12 to the first occurrence of a note, in order to know for certain at what fret the note next occurs. For example, I say "Fifth string, C, third fret, and immediately know that the next C is at the fifteenth fret (3 + 12 = 15).
Brilliant!!!
You are the best!!!
This is a VERY cool idea. I learned something :)
I have no idea where this will lead us. But I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange.
You make the telecaster a cool guitar .
I thought telecasters were very uncool until I saw what Will Sergeant of the bunnymen could do with one. Now I think its the best guitar ever. I just wish I had an esquire like Syd Barrett instead though but they are too damn expensive and dont wanna destroy my Tele to change the wiring
This is awesome! Thanks so much!
Brilliant!
A Haa okay ...got it .
Easy nur important. 👍😊
Excellant sir
Thanks, Adrian.
Recently I was trying to play some songs in keys with sharps and struggled to find the sharp chords. I think this is due to learning the fretboard as having flats rather than both flats and sharps. I was surprised at how disoriented I was by this. And had to spend a bit of time afterward working on my sharp keys. In doing this I revisited the Circle of Fifths chart. I made some observations that I hadn't previously. C major, as we all know has no sharps or flats. But all the other non-flat letter keys, with the exception of F are sharp keys. The key of F has one sharp. All the other letter keys, G, A, B, D, and E have sharps. The enharmonic keys share names and have the most sharps and flats. Db/C#, Gb/F# and Cb/B. These contain the only two sharp key names. (C#/F#)
Do you have any thoughts about this sharps and flats phenomenon?
Especially in reference to mastering the fretboard.
great stuff
Thinking in using this method first with the help of those fretboard stickers. Not sure if that would make it harder to memorize notes properly though.
Genius
nice tele
wow...Wow wow..Nice mate
I just came across your channel and this lesson is very valuable. I am trying to figure out when trying to read music, how do you know which note to string position you are supposed to play . I know this is basic but if I could work this out, it would help. Also, I can read the basic scale but when you start having notes off the scale, it becomes very confusing. Any tips?
Hi Adrian, are you a music teacher in a school?
some times it's the simplest things that we can learn the most from
Thanks
I am having a hell of a time with this. I know E/F/F# but past that I am dead in the water.
hi Adrian great stuff you have here. Just wondering do you sell DVDs on learning how to play guitar like soloing and other things.
🙏
Aha moment thanks to this video!!!
Which fingers should you use to play each note on all the frets and strings?
This is fantastic!0
great lessons.do you teach,and where are you.thanks
Welcome to Twin Peaks!
And how do you find the notes on a guitar ?
Thanks a lot for this video, Adrian!
However, when you write (on your website): "Make this a part of your regular practice routine and in a month or two you’ll have no problem *instantly* identifying any note on the guitar", you scare the hell out of me! I've been working on this every day for more than two months and I do have problems to *instantly* identify many notes on the fretboard: when "I shoot in the dark", i.e. put a finger at a random place on the neck without looking, it still often requires some thinking and counting from a known note. My brain may be defective... :(
Ha, yes maybe that was a bit of an overly optimistic statement. I suppose these things take as long as they take which is different for everyone. Just make learning the fretboard a small, regular part of your practice, stick with it and you'll get there.
@@acpg Thanks for your encouragement, Adrian! I'll stick with it. Also, I've noticed that varying the exercices help, as it forces you to concentrate: after a time, playing a given note from 6th string to 1st and back can become pretty easy (automatic) but that doesn't mean you've fully memorised the location of the note; rather a pattern. Finding the same note starting from the lowest possible fret and going up and down the neck makes it clear. So I've added this exercice, plus learning all the notes at a given fret, etc.
would it be acceptable to just use this method from 1st to 12th fret since it all starts over anyway?
Yes, absolutely. These days I often approach the exercise in that way. Feel free to adapt it and make it work for you.
cool I have no idea what you mean
yes i know half lol i will work on this
Eh, I'd probably stay a singer-songwriter punk strummer :D