FRETBOARD MEMORIZATION GAME 🎮 LEARN ALL THE NOTES on a GUITAR FRETBOARD in 10 MINUTES

[Applause] in a previous lesson i demonstrated my preferred fretboard memorization method to memorize all the notes on a guitar fretboard however in this lesson i would like to recap this method for anyone who has not yet seen the first lesson and also take this one step further by introducing an interactive game you can play along with in order to put this into practice you only need a basic grasp of how this works to take part in the play along towards the end of the video so let's begin by explaining the method so in order to learn any fretboard memorization technique to quickly identify and play notes anywhere on the guitar fretboard you first need to have an understanding of how the notes are laid out on a single string so for this let's use our low e string as an example if we play this string open we end up with an e note now let's move to fret 1 of the same string what would this note be well as the musical alphabet only goes up to g so a b c d e f g we can easily see that the next note up from an e would be an f note so nice and easy e moves up to f so you would expect the next fret up to be a g then right wrong in the musical alphabet we have sharps and flats for example between an a note and a b note we would have an a sharp because we have moved one semitone or fret higher than an a and we could also call this note b flat because it's one semitone of fret lower than b this is what's known as an n harmonic equivalent these occur between every note apart from between e and f and b and c so e would jump straight to f and b would jump straight to c now back to our e string so we have an open e and f on the first fret and as the next note is one semitone or fret higher than f we could call this f sharp and as it's one semitone or fret lower than the next note in the alphabet in this case g we could also name this g flat so now let's quickly work our way through the rest of the notes on this e string now that we understand the general rules our g on the third fret would move to a g sharp on the fourth fret we could also call this g sharp an a flat as the musical alphabet as previously discussed only goes as far as g before looping back to a again this therefore helps us to identify the next note so a and the note that we're currently on a flat a jumps straight to a sharp or you could call this b flat which leads us to our b note b jumps straight to our c because if you remember we place sharps and flats between every note apart from between e and f and b and c we would then have a c sharp or you could call this d flat which moves to our d followed by d sharp which you could also call e-flat before finally arriving back where we started on an e-note so we've gone full circle from e to e this distance is what's known as an octave understanding this basic first step is essential for learning the notes on the fretboard however by no means is at the end of the story if you were to use what you've learned so far to identify any note on any string you certainly could however it won't be very fast for example if you were to name the note on the sixth fret of the a string you would have to first climb up through all the notes that came before it so open a a sharp or b flat b c c sharp or d flat d and finally we could name this either d-sharp or e-flat so once again this method works but it's very slow my previous video at this step detailed memorizing the notes that fall exactly where the fret markers are positioned on the neck of the guitar once memorized these can act as anchors or checkpoints so for example the notes of the low e string where the fret markers occur typically frets 3 5 7 and 9 would be g a b and c sharp or you could call this d flat or just simply gab c-sharp or d-flat so now if you were to identify the note on the sixth fret of this string you could jump straight to the checkpoint on the fifth fret so a and go up one fret or semitone to reveal an a sharp or you could call this a b flat note so using this method you only really need to memorize four notes at the checkpoints on each string for almost instant note identification across the entire fretboard this works incredibly well and is enough to become part of an everyday guitar playing habit for most guitar players however rather than just giving you this information to just simply get on with let's try learning and applying this now through an interactive fretboard memorization game the rules of the game is simple you will have a countdown of four beats to identify the note shown on screen after which you will play the note for four beats and as the game progresses so will the tempo or speed there will be five levels one for each string and i'm obviously not counting the high e string because if you can identify the notes on the low e string then the notes on the high e string are identical i will also show you the checkpoint notes where the fret markers are positioned on screen as a guide for the first few notes however these will slowly fade over the course of each level leaving it up to you and your memory of these to locate each note let me know which level you made it to in the comments section below and if you haven't already click that like and subscribe button so let's begin [Music] do [Music] so [Music] so [Music] do [Music] hmm do [Music] you

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Id: fjoVm5NRz1Y

Length: 12min 22sec (742 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 26 2021