How to Easily Memorize all of the Notes on the Fretboard with "The Immersion Method"

we're World War II World War II World War II World War hey what's going on guys Brian from zombie kits are here here in this lesson I want to this is actually a remake of an older lesson that I've done two years ago or two and a half years ago and I wanted to redo this video because number one I've gotten better at making videos over the last couple years and number two I don't feel that the older version of the video gets as many views as it should just because I think this is a really really beneficial way to learn all the notes of the fret board and I haven't seen this done anywhere else maybe other people have done this before but I kind of just came up with this myself where I kind of discovered this method myself through learning the Caged system and I call this the immersion method the reason I call it the immersion method is because you can equate it to learning another language that isn't your native language so you can learn another language in two ways number one you could try and memorize the language you could download apps that have you to memorize memorization exercises you can memorize different verbs different nouns different sentences and stuff like that or you can just go and visit the country for a year immerse yourself into the culture and I feel that if you do the second way you're probably gonna learn the language much faster and you're gonna internalize it much better so this kind of works the same way most of the methods that I see on YouTube and on the internet for learning the fretboard our memorization techniques whereas this method is an immersion method okay so I'm gonna be teaching you using various different major minor chord shapes with the Caged system in all twelve Keys through a ten-minute you could just spend ten minutes a day on this and over the course of maybe one to three months by the end of that time you're gonna have a really good understanding of the fretboard okay before I get started I always just like to tell everyone to please take a look at my website if you haven't already all the links are below on my website which is zombie guitar calm there's two membership levels there's a free membership level and a full access membership level the free members have access to all of my youtube videos but everything's much more structured and organized it also contains a written lesson that goes along with each video plus all the charts and all the diagram the use in my videos are included with the free lessons as well and the full access membership in addition to all the free stuff now there's 12 full lead guitar improv courses there's thousands of improv backing track videos there's a solo analysis page there's all types of extra stuff okay so um you know if you're interested in that take a look at it all the links are below other than that let's get started with this lesson all right support get started into going into detail about how this method works let me just give you a basic overview to see if this is for you or not so some people may prefer to just do the basic or some of the memorization techniques found on YouTube I don't have any videos like that because I don't prefer to learn the fretboard in that manner so let's just see if this is for you so I'm just gonna give you a quick overview of how it works so the idea is there's twelve keys in music and in any of the twelve keys the most common chords are the one chord the four chord the five chord and the six chord so if you're in the key of say C major C major would be your one chord F major would be your four chord G major would be your five chord and a minor would be your six chord so if you make up a chord progression in any order using those four chords for just that one key you could do something like a minor to F major to C major to G major something like okay very common chord progression you can play that same chord progression in various different spots of the fretboard using various different caged shapes okay and when I play the different cage shapes I'm just going to be using the high four strings because ultimately what I'm trying to learn is the high the notes of the higher four strings the D G B and E strings so at the end I'll show you how you can apply the same technique to the lower low E and a strings as well but most guitar players learn the lower or learn the notes on the lower strings first but they have trouble memorizing the higher four strings okay so that's why the primary focus is going to be on the higher four strings so you're going to take this chord progression and you're gonna move it around and play these various different cage shapes like okay I'll show you the shapes in the next part of this lesson but this is just a basic overview part so as you're working through those different shapes you just want to have an awareness of where the root of each of those chords are so if you're playing in the open position you're playing in a minor chord if you know that here's an A and then here's an A okay so that would be the where the root notes are located if you play an F chord and you know that here's an F and here's an F that's where those notes are low that's where the root notes of that particular shape is located alright if you play a C and you know your root is here and here those are your two notes C okay you play a G you know what G is here she is here she is here okay so that's for these full open shapes it's actually a lot easier when you play these movable caged shapes to know where the root notes are located and that's the whole idea so if I'm playing this okay so I know for the shape my root notes are found here and here if I play this shape I know my root note is found here if I play the shape I know my root note is found here if I play this shape I know my root notes are found here in here okay so if I call out these chords to myself if I go a minor F major C major G major I know that this is an a this is an a this is an F okay this is a C this is a G and this is a G so just by knowing these different shapes as I said there's only four major and three minor shapes played all up and down the fretboard if I know these different shapes and I know where the it's are located within each of these shapes then second handedly learning the you know I'm learning the notes to the fretboard okay so that's the whole idea of this immersion technique you're playing chord progressions you're playing in different keys you're learning these different major and minor chord shapes all up and down the fretboard but as a you know you're also learning the notes the fretboard so long as you know where the root notes are located within each of the shapes all right and like I said there's only seven shapes so if you know where the root notes are located within each of these seven shapes you just do this exercise for ten minutes a day maybe one key per day maybe two keys per day I would say just stick to one key per day you're gonna know all the notes to the fretboard in a few months time all right so that's the brief overview let me get into the detailed how to actually do all this stuff okay so now we're gonna do the detailed part of the lesson where I show you the seven different shapes that you're going to be using for major and three minor and then I'm going to show you where the root notes are located within each of the shapes and now this may may be a little confusing for some people if you haven't started to tackle this cage stuff yet but I can I can promise you that once you go through this once in just one key it's gonna come very very quickly and much more easily for you and all of the rest of the keys okay so if you can work through one key once and you can follow along and just one key and then you go and try it in another key or any of the other keys it's gonna be much easier for you okay so I'm just gonna start out doing it in the key of C major slash a minor using that same chord progression that I showed you on the previous section of this video so the chord progression is a minor to F major to C major to G major so using those four chords a minor would be your six F is your four C is your one G is your five so this is a six four one five progression in this particular key there's only twelve keys this is one of the twelve keys so now the different shapes that we're going to be using to play that same progression there's four major and three minor let me show you what those are let me just show you the three minor shapes first so the only minor chord in this progression is an a minor chord so rather than playing it here in the open position we could also play it up here and what is known as the E minor shape it's just the basic sixth string Barre chord rooted on the low E string but we're just going to be playing on the high four strings so that's an a minor chord and your root note is found here on the D string and here on the high E string okay so you know if you're playing an a minor chord in the shape you know that this node is an a and this node is an A okay that's one of the three minor chord shapes the next minor chord shape comes from this arpeggio here alright we're just playing it on the high three strings on the G B and E string this is known as the D minor shape because it looks just like a D minor chord but it's slid up to here you can play this anywhere and we're playing it here because we're trying to play an a minor chord and this particular shape your root note is always going to be found on the B string right here so you know if you're playing the shape you know this is an a this is a minor chord this is the note a okay your third minor shape is going to be this shape okay this is just a basic minor bar chord shape rooted on the a string this is also known as the a minor shape it's an a minor chord but it's also the a minor shape it's movable you can play any chord and E minor chord in the a minor chord shape okay so we're just doing the high three strings again and any time you play that shape know that your root note is found here on the g string so if I play this chord this is my note a okay so if one minor chord shape with your root note being here and here you have this minor chord shape with your root note being here and you have this minor shape with your root note being here okay and then the pattern continues once you're up here you're doing the same thing that you did down here you're just an octave higher okay so let me show you the four major chord shapes now let me just do it with I'll pick the G major chord for example so you can do a G major chord here this is a g major Barre chord but we're just gonna be sticking to the high four strings all right and any time you play that type of major chord shape your root notes are found here on the D string and here on the high E string okay so you know if you play a G major chord you know this is your note G and this is a G all right so the next G major chord shape can be found would be up here alright so this comes from the C shape alright again I'll link you to my lesson on Caged so you can learn a little bit more about that if you want but just know that you can take the C chord in the open position play it like this pretending there's a bar there and then kind of slide it up to sit wherever you want until your pinkie lands on the root so here's a G this is your G major chord in the C shape but we're just playing the high four strings here you can do just the high three strings if you want but I prefer to do the high four strings just because it sounds more melodic when you're doing these types of chord progressions you can even do the full five chord one or the five string one if you want I just like to do these four strings okay so when you play the shape your root note is always found here on the B string okay your next G major shape would be found here and what is known as the a shape because this is just a basic major Barre chord rooted on the a but I'm just gonna be playing the high three strings so anytime you play a major chord like that on the high three strings your root note is always going to be found on the g string here sign up I play AG chord in that shape then my root note is found here that's near G okay and then the final the fourth and final major shape is going to be the G major shape this is comes from the shape but if you were to act like there was a bar then you could do something like that this is a really complicated shape to play in a movable manner which is why I just play instead of trying to do this it all crazies it like that just play you can just bar these four strings and then bar the E and B string like this okay you don't you can even just play just the B string or you can borrow the E and the B string both work the same just like you can play a G chord down here or you can play a G chord without your third finger there both are G chord still so I like to play barring these four and then boring these two alright and then I know when I play a shape like that that my roots are found here on the g string and here on the E string okay so the four different major chord shapes that you're going to be using are this one this one this one and this one alright and your root notes are found here and here here here and here and here alright so you only have seven shapes that you have to remember okay you have three minor and the four major shapes as long as you can remember those shapes you can take a chord progression consisting of the one four five and six courts and you can transpose that to any of the twelve keys and essentially play the same chord progression using those seven shapes anywhere on the entire fretboard and I you you practice this you do this for 10 minutes a day pick one key per day and just kind of call out the chords as you're playing them and then have an awareness of where the root note is within each of the chords you're gonna learn the fretboard very very quickly okay through this whole immersion concept [Music] you [Music] you [Music] you you [Music] you [Music] okay something like that some parts were a little sloppy my finger-picking is um my finger picking technique definitely needs work but you get the idea so you run through those core progressions you do it in the various different spots as you saw sometimes I started on one chord and then found some some of the other chords here then I started on one chord and found some of the other chords here the chords are found all up and down the neck of the guitar major chords minor chords are found all up and down the neck of the guitar in various different shapes that's the beauty of this whole Caged system idea so that's how I ended up learning this as I was teaching myself to I memorize the Caged system I inadvertently learned all the notes of the fret board so that's how I came up with this method okay so now we're gonna take this and we're gonna use a circle of fifths and then use the circle of fifths to help you apply this to all 12 keys and then when you work your way through all 12 keys ultimately you're gonna know the fretboard very well and you're gonna know all the notes of the fretboard after a few months all right not only that but you're also gonna know the difference between when to use the flat names and when to use the sharp names so for example if if this note here on the fifth fret of the high E string is the note a 1 higher than a would be a sharp the 7th fret would be the note B so 1 less than B would be B flat so when do you use a sharp when do you use B flat and well by working your way around the circle of fifths you'll always know which is the correct one to use things get a little a little tricky right around the bottom right around the F sharp key f-sharp slash G flat key but other than that key everything else is pretty clearly laid out for the major keys for like B flat E flat a flat D flat when you're in those keys you're gonna be going by the flat names for the notes when you're in the sharp usually minors the minor keys go by the sharp names like F sharp minor C sharp minor G sharp minor when you're in those types of keys that's when you're gonna be going by the sharp names but as you work your way around the circle of fifths doing these various different progressions using the one four or five and six chords you're just going to know which is the correct one to use which is the whole idea with this whole immerse immersing yourself in music and inadvertently learning the notes of the fretboard by doing so alright so I'm looking at the circle of fifths we just did the key of C major slash a minor same key C majors the major version a minor is the minor version so C major top dead center that is the one chord always in the counterclockwise direction would be your 4 chord which is f major the clockwise direction would be the G major chord which is the five chord the inner circle in the middle would be your 6th chord which is a minor you can then move to the next key which would be the key of G major E minor G major being the major version II minor being the minor version the same thing applies dead center in the outer circle is your one chord clockwise direction would be your five chord counterclockwise direction is your four chord inner circle in the middle is your six chord move over to the next P which is D major slash B minor outer circle middle one chord clockwise direction is your five chord counterclockwise direction is your four chord middle circle in the in the inner circle in the middle is your six chord so you just do that you move around your circle of fifths and you just try it in all 12 keys I would not recommend doing all 12 keys in one day me personally I like to just do one key per day maybe 10 to 15 minutes just focus on one key per day you know every cycle of 12 days you've cycled through all 12 keys then you start over after about 2 3 months of this you would have went through all 12 Keys several times and you ever very good understanding with a fretboard all right 10 to 15 minutes a day tops that's that's what I would recommend so you could do the same exact thing like let's say we're in the key of E minor and we want to do the same or a minor / G major same key so instead of doing a minor F major C major G major you would be doing the same progression but just in a different key so we would now be doing a minor to C major to G major to D major so this would be our progression now same chord progression it's just a different key now alright so you know I could come and I can start here and I could find my next Imai nur here alright and then I always know that my root notes located here alright and then I'm going to a C major chord which is here and then a G major and then a D major all right or I can go a minor to C major at the G major D major E minor C major G major D major all right so it's the same same shapes I'm just in a different key now and after you keep doing this you're just gonna get faster and faster and faster of finding these shapes and you know ultimately you're gonna as long as you know where the root note is located within each of their shapes you're just gonna be really really quick with it and you're gonna know the fretboard all right so that's how to apply this to all 12 keys using the circle of fifths okay so the final thing I wanted to say for this lesson is I said in the beginning that I kind of had the assumption that most guitar players after they've been playing for a while know most of the notes on the low E string and the a string but if you don't know the strength the notes on the low E and a string you can still take this whole immersion method if that's what you want to call it and apply it to the lower strings so rather than playing these these Kate shapes that may be new to you you could just go with you're more familiar Barre chord shapes so if I wanted to do the a minor F major C major G major progression I could just go or I can go like this all right and then when you do that you know work your way around the circle of fifths one keeper day same same concept but you always know that your root note is found on the lowest string of the barre chord shape that you're using so you know that this is an a this is an F this is a C this is a G a F C G mmm all right same thing you're just not you're not confining yourself to just one area you're just kind of jumping around one same thing with the a string just do a barre chord shape and jump around a minor f c G a minor f c G alright come up here too if you want but again these are all rooted on the a string these are bar chords rooted on the a string so that'll help you learn your notes on the a string as well alright so same concept applied to the lower two strings or yeah that low E and the a string alright so um it's gonna do it for this lesson I think this around pretty long I think we're at about a half hour now so I cut this lesson out any questions any comments feel free to ask don't forget to uh you know check out my website if that's something you're interested in lots of lessons on there lots of cool stuff zombie guitar calm thanks for watching see you next time [Music] you [Music]

Channel: Brian Kelly

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Keywords: guitar, guitar theory, music theory, CAGED, fretboard, memorize the notes

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Length: 26min 4sec (1564 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 19 2019