FRETBOARD Memorization/Visualisation

[Christian Schulze]

Whaddup Synner FAM!

As many of you know I do a series on this site called CJ's 2 Cents on the lessons of this wonderful site. And I also did one on the topic of memorizing the freboard:

https://syngates.com/media/cjs-2-cents-lesson-42-learning-the-fretboard.3694/

In the video I used a clip of Uncle Ben/Ben Eller to explain the concept of Chunking....well Uncle Ben did it again!

Here is a video of him explaining an amazing trick to fretboard memorization that I just fell in love with!


Try the trick out! Every note IS EVERYWHERE!

Cheers!

 

[Christian Schulze]

He's my favorite YT teacher for guitar, he told me why I sucked at guitar and said he was my uncle. This is nice, I've been taking in all this theory, I need to practice more specifics. This is how a7x writes the nice guitar duals?
P.S. I only saw like 2-3 videos from him cause I haven't been learning for a awhile and found him only just like 3 years ago.

He is amazing! Watch more of his stuff!

 

[Jak Angelescu]

that's awesome you found another great video! I however know that depending on what style you play or how you want to play, the CAGED system is very beneficial. So I wouldn't toss it completely. That's my 2 cents

 

[Christian Schulze]

that's awesome you found another great video! I however know that depending on what style you play or how you want to play, the CAGED system is very beneficial. So I wouldn't toss it completely. That's my 2 cents

I wouldn't toss it either. The more you know the better!

 

[Christian Schulze]

As a little proof of concept....here is my take

 

[Ezequiel Romanko]

Well this is an unvaluabable amount of information, i personally struggle with fretboard memorization, and this is absolute great for my fretboard studies
thank you very much dude!

 

[Christian Schulze]

Well this is an unvaluabable amount of information, i personally struggle with fretboard memorization, and this is absolute great for my fretboard studies
thank you very much dude!

You welcome man! Im was in the same boat, it took some weeks but now its better!

 

[Ezequiel Romanko]

Yeah and it's kinda a MUST learn it as fast i can cuz im in uni and Sight reading is A MUST in order to aprove :C

 

[Chris Johnston]

Great video! I tend to try and think in the simplest way possible to memorize the fretboard as my memory is atrocious

The way I think of it is surrounding the 'natural notes' - no sharps or flats: I just remember that BC & EF are always stuck together and everything else has a sharpened or flattened version of the note separating it. Every string is just this process happening from a different note. Take the Low E string for example:

The open note is E, so 1st fret must be F (as they're stuck together) next fret would be F# (one fret up from F - also one fret below G - so you could call it Gb too!) Then you repeat the same process until you reach B, which is stuck to C on the next fret, eventually you'll end up on 12th fret E an octave above.

The trick is to practice going to all of the 'natural notes' on each string (no sharps or flats), and visualize the shape that you build between the 1 fret gaps and your BC & EF's - This will give you solid placeholders on every string for your natural notes so that if you want to find an A# for example, you only need to see she shape & go one fret above A.

I use this method because you technically only have to memorize a shape on a string, and remember the string name starting it all.

Cheesy rhyme to remember: B&C, E&F, other notes have a 1 fret stretch

 

[Christian Schulze]

Great video! I tend to try and think in the simplest way possible to memorize the fretboard as my memory is atrocious

The way I think of it is surrounding the 'natural notes' - no sharps or flats: I just remember that BC & EF are always stuck together and everything else has a sharpened or flattened version of the note separating it. Every string is just this process happening from a different note. Take the Low E string for example:

The open note is E, so 1st fret must be F (as they're stuck together) next fret would be F# (one fret up from F - also one fret below G - so you could call it Gb too!) Then you repeat the same process until you reach B, which is stuck to C on the next fret, eventually you'll end up on 12th fret E an octave above.

The trick is to practice going to all of the 'natural notes' on each string (no sharps or flats), and visualize the shape that you build between the 1 fret gaps and your BC & EF's - This will give you solid placeholders on every string for your natural notes so that if you want to find an A# for example, you only need to see she shape & go one fret above A.

I use this method because you technically only have to memorize a shape on a string, and remember the string name starting it all.

Cheesy rhyme to remember: B&C, E&F, other notes have a 1 fret stretch

Yess kinda like the chunkint method I explained in my 2 cents video!