Guitar Fretboard: Memorize The Fretboard In Less Than 24 Hours: 35+ Tips And Exercises Included
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A fully memorized fretboard is one of the most underrated skills in the guitar world. It’s not expected from a beginner, nor is it taught in the normal course of guitar learning.
But the smartest and best guitarists in the world know why fretboard knowledge can be the secret to being good at guitar.
Why memorize the fretboard?
Apart from sounding extremely cool when you say “Oh, you played a C instead of a C#”, it amplifies every area of your guitar playing:
Area #1: Guitar scales won’t be just patterns on the neck:
Guitar scales are simply a couple notes repeated all over the fretboard. If you understand this simple concept and have the fretboard memorized, you won’t need to memorize those endless patterns all over the fretboard. Simply get set and solo!
Area #2: You’ll unlock 1000+ guitar chords:
Chords are combinations of specific notes too. You can hold these notes anywhere on the fretboard to get chords in different contexts. And if you know the chord formulas (which we teach in our other books) you just unlocked the gates to the world of harmony – without having to memorize them all!
But it starts with – you guessed it – fretboard knowledge.
Area #3: Song writing becomes child’s play:
Break free from common chord shapes and sounds to venture into the wild west of music writing. Add your own chords to popular songs, change the key or simply be more creative.
Granted this is an advanced skill, but the shortest path to get there – fretboard memorization!
Area #4: And the biggest benefit of them all – improvisation!
Improvising is natural to a person who knows the fretboard! New note combinations, unorthodox melodies, playing fluently with a backing track or even writing new melodies. Nothing works if you can’t pick out the notes on the fretboard in an instant.
So, fretboard knowledge allows you to solo better, improvise better, play better harmonies and write songs. That’s a major chunk of guitar right there!
Why more people don’t memorize the fretboard.
It’s hard! It seems impossible! It’ll come with time!
And we agree with all of that. Memorizing 24 frets across 6 strings is not the easiest thing in the world. And most guitarists only ever master it after 1000s of hours on the guitar.
But we want to give you a cheat code!
Inside this book, we’ve simplified this process that takes a “lifetime” into 5 easy steps. Using these, absolute beginners have memorized the fretboard in less than 24 hours. Some even in as little as 5 hours!
Wondering how we do it? Simple!
We combined pattern recognition with memory techniques and games to create a system that will show you patterns hidden in plain sight and give you short memory phrases like “Eddie Ate Dynamite, Good Bye Eddie”. This will take the layout of the fretboard right to the brain – WITHOUT any sort of blunt memorization.
With over 700 5–star reviews, this book has helped over 39,000 guitarists shorten their learning time and gain the skill of the guitar gods – in under 24 hours!
And it costs less than a pack of strings!
So, scroll up and click ‘buy now’ to gain the unfair advantage of the pros in under 24 hours!
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Additional information
| Publisher | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2nd edition (13 May 2018) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 78 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1719064873 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1719064873 |
| Dimensions | 20.32 x 0.46 x 25.4 cm |
by brian cottrell
Does the job
by Dr. R. Bhairam
I, like I am sure, many, took the opportunity of lockdown to finally learn the dusty guitar that can be found sitting in the corner of every living room around the world. As a self confessed obsessive, I put hours into callus building, chords and scales and progressed reasonably well. But, could I get my head around the fretboard? No! No matter what I tried it failed. In fact, at one point, I’m convinced my missus thought I was Jack from the Shining with all the fretboard diagrams around the house (spoiler – the all work and no play scene!). Then before heading to bed last night and in utter desperation I downloaded this book.
If I tell you it took me 20 mins this morning to learn the fretboard, I can imagine you’d roll your eyes and scream ‘gimmick’ – well get eye rolling!
I do attach two small caveats though … Firstly, I do have some good grounding in musical theory (i.e. I now how it roughly works – not that you need it for this book) and secondly I think memorise is a little generous, but can I quickly locate any note and ergo, key? Yes definitely, and in time I’m sure I will completely have the fretboard suitably committed to memory!
Absolutely worth the £3.00 I spent, a real no brainer if you want to learn that pesky fretboard.
Right, off to sharpen my ‘axe’ (Real guitarists – do you like what I did there?) ……. “Wendy …. I’m home! …”
by neal taylor
I have learnt more in the past 24 hrs than I have in my entire guitar-playing life. It’s so easy to follow and it’s written in a really friendly way.
Thank you guitar head for sharing this awesome knowledge so I can press ahead with my journey to the kingdom of ROCK.
by Brian cat
I bought this book with no inhibitions but I started reading it and tried the instructions and sure enough with in a few hours I had learnt E and A threadboard,quite a clever little book.
by Mrs Sarah Mills
I bought this for my husband and he is really pleased with it
by Raymond Gayle
A good book that’s easy to understand
by Torkerz
This book does a great job at helping you understand the fret part better, with some simple hints and tips at how to locate each note on the guitar.
In the back there are some exercises you can do to help your note location.
Overall the book is great however the format seems too simple in places and the games in the back can be hard to follow. I assure you, you will need longer than 24 hours to full memorise the fretboard, but this book does help.
Good purchase overall, but lacking in places to get 5 stars
by Brian Gable
A very good read that explains how the guitar fretboard is laid out and why, with ways to understand the layout, with ingenious ways to get the notes into our brains so that we can recall and use this knowledge in our playing and help in our musical progress with fun.
Well worth the kindle cost of £2.99.
Today I was unable to practice but did read this book in a sitting, so now I will do some time with guitar practice, and read this book again tomorrow to embed the information gained therein, thank you