This short article will highlight how you can make learning your guitar notes on the fretboard easy Although a guitar with 24 frets
may have 288 different note locations to remember there are really simple ways to to make it easier to memorize all the notes about the fretboard.
First of all we are able to cut the number of positions that need to be remembered in half since the guitar fretboard repeats following the 12th fret
(the very first 12 frets are an octave, the following 12 are the octave above it). The notes appear in the exact same order from the 12th to the 24th fret as
they do from the 1st to the 12th. This means nowadays there are only 144 note locations to consider.
In total there are 12 different notes in western music, they are: C, C#/Db, D, D#/Eb, E, F, F#/Gb, G, G#/, A, A#/Bb and B. As you can see the #’s and b’s
(sharps and flats) lie between the notes C and D, D and E, F and G, G along with a, A and B. Therefore we can now cut the number of notes we need to learn right down to just
42 because we'll automatically see the sharps and flats appear between the other notes once we’ve memorized the positions of C, D, E, F, G along with a.
Now find an image of all the notes on the fretboard (you can find one in the free e-book that you get when you join your guitar Theory Revolution newsletter)
and discover the universal note pattern that every note follows. Between the 1st and 12th fret each note appears once on each one of the six strings.
If you take the start of the pattern to be the notes appearing about the low and high E string then you’ll see the pattern repeat again and again for each note.
Learning this note pattern is probably the quickest way to learn all of the notes on the guitar fretboard, however, there are others. For instance if you know
the circle of fifths and fourths then you’ll easily be able to find all the notes since the strings on the guitar are tuned in fifths. The circle of
fourths and fifths will be covered in future articles and lessons.
When i mentioned earlier it is best to focus on the notes C, D, E, F, G, A and B first because that way you’ll automatically start seeing the sharps and
flats between them. In addition you should always sing the notes that you're playing in order to improve your ability to recognize notes by ear.
Finally be sure you learn the locations of the notes without reference to other notes. Although it’s helpful in the beginning it’s not good to maintain doing
this because it will slow you down because you’ll always be checking where other notes are before you can find the one you really want. To memorize all
the notes within the proper way check out the exercises within the free e-book How To Learn All of the Notes On The Guitar Fretboard which you'll download when
you subscribe to the Guitar Theory Revolution newsletter.