![]() Next learn scales and arpeggios and say the notes as you play them. Even if it isn’t your style, try to play some power chord songs slowly, they will all be based on the notes on the bottom two strings, from there you will be able to play all bar chords which will get you a long way not sharp or flat) they will be obvious once you’ve learnt the more important part. Think about them in terms of the natural notes (i.e. The most important notes to know at the beginning are those on the two bass strings, as they’ll be the root notes for 95% of your early chords. You can’t know which note is where if you don’t know where you are, start by trying to hit fret numbers.īuild it up slowly. I’m not sure how vital it is to know specifically what those notes are, but it is vital to know what fret numbers they represent. As you look down on your guitar you should be looking at the smaller markers on the side of the fretboard. Sorry if this starts too basic, I’m not really sure what level you’re at, it is a great question to ask though, I certainly didn’t learn the locations of the notes early enough.įirst things first is what said, the fret markers are your friend. These visuals will be plenty enough to aid your perception of your fret board. You can add the next three after 1 hour of the first three. After the 1 day review you can then begin to start playing but make sure to review 1 week later. So get the first three down (more like the first 2 frets) and then walk away and come back 5 minutes later and review, then walk away and come back 1 hour later, then review, then 1 day later. REMEMBER: The actual first fret on the guitar will be viewed as the second fret because we are counting the open strings as a spot. Make sure you do not do all of it at once! People have a tendency to repeat things they learn at first over and over and this leads to your brain visualizing mistakes! Trust me. This would be your day 1 visualization work. The next three frets could be marshmallows, golden brown and sticky, the last three frets could be covered in mash potatoes. Then the next three frets are a real life Sponge Bob square pants and you can push on these sponges and feel a real sponge, additionally when you touch it too hard, sponge bob gives his famous laugh. ![]() Imagine pushing your fingers through it and maybe visualize taking the peanuts out because you meant to get creamy peanut butter for your first three frets (counting the open strings as the first fret). (counting the open strings as a fret), you would then imagine the first three frets covered in peanut butter. And only focus on the first 12 frets at first because as you already know, the second 12 frets repeat. So my suggestion is to divide the fret board up into thirds. It is always best to try to use the brains natural abilities for remembering, assuming you give it visual aid as well. Music divides great because it works out of base 12. At first, try setting up some very basic visuals, maybe just enhance the fret board. Reviewing too much may also be the cause for your troubles. the 4th fret is just one semitone after the G, and so it’s G#/Ab.ĭon’t forget to go layer by layer, and take your time! When you add a visual review it 5 minutes later, 1 hour later, 1 day later, then 1 week later. Learning these 4 gets you most of the way there, as then e.g. I know that on the E-string they’re on G, A, B and C#. I found that it was most useful to learn these first. If not you can just stick your own ones on however you like. My final comment is that many guitars have markings on them like this. In this way your fingers will learn where to find the notes. ![]() by getting the guitar and playing scales such as D major, C minor, or arpeggios of the same, starting in different places on the guitar. More effective in general would be to learn these in context, e.g. The solution is that when you’re visualizing to look around the fretboard, so e.g. It feels like to much to keep in my head at once When I try to visualize, it works “zoomed-in” like when looking at only the first three frets, but when I zoom out, the imagry gets blury. Your brain doesn’t have enough space in its RAM to visualize the details of an entire guitar fretboard, which leads to the effect you described: Nice to see another guitarist here - I also play
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