- Guitar Fretboard: Memorize The Fretboard In Less Than 24 Hours: 35+ Tips And Exercises Included

This is a great book that delivers on its promise. I'm an older player (69) just learning guitar, although I played clarinet and was in choir as a kid from grade school through high school, so I was already familiar with music notation. I've been playing guitar now for just 2 years. So far, I've been playing everything mostly in 1st position and know all the notes on the six strings through the first 4 frets. Recently, I've been working on moveable scales with the CAGED system using a book that has some exercises with both notation and tablature for the notes. While I recognize the notes in standard notation that I can play in first position up to the 4th fret, I wasn't familiar with the positions for the same notes on other strings at higher frets. I've looked at fret board maps before with all the note names marked, and I thought it would be a pretty long-term process before I knew the note names up the neck. However, this book breaks things down in very simple logical progressions that make it really quick and easy to learn patterns to learn the notes on each string through all 24 frets. (Actually, you only need to learn through fret 12 [one octave] because everything repeats for the next octave [12-24].) It's going to take quite a bit of practice to train my fretting and picking fingers to move up and down the neck in tempo and hit the right positions for the desired notes, but at least now I know what notes are on what strings at different positions on the fretboard. And it didn't take anywhere close to 24 hours. After just 2 hours reading the first half of the book, I have the whole fretboard figured out. Obviously, I'll need some practice to quickly identify each note I'm playing on each string, but the book teaches the relationship to each inlay on the fretboard and patterns to relate notes on different strings along the neck. Now - practice, practice, practice!

I like the book. I actually already knew what the book explains but I still have trouble recalling the notes without thinking about them. The systematic approach is helping me while I study the scales in thirds.

This is a good book for understanding the fretboard. It uses memorization tricks like memorizing G-A-B on the 6th string this way: "the Goat Ate the Bag." I use this kind of thing myself. But know this: you will not memorize the fretboard with this book in less than 24 hours unless you have nothing else to do in that time. The name is merely a marketing grab. However, I gave it four stars because I like the contents and I wasn't especially concerned about learning the fretboard in 24 hours. Yes, you should buy this.

This book teaches you how to memorize the fretboard in way less than 24 hours, it took me 9 minutes and I can easily play each fret and call out the note for each one accurately. You only need to get to page 17 of the book and the light bulb should go on for you, from there it's just bonus material to further hone your ability to connect the dots and turn the newfound knowledge of the notes on the fretboard into music. When I say I memorized each note, I mean each and every note on every fret available on my guitar including sharp or flat semitones. I found the semitones most daunting before I read and understood this type of basic music theory. If you are new to playing guitar, this is helpful, it's a different perspective on the frets and each note that you won't find on youtube, I've watched thousands of videos and never heard anyone mention this method. Do yourself a favor if you are brand new to playing guitar, get yourself a chromatic tuner that attaches to your guitar, try to get one that can identify sharp / flat semitones this way you can get visual feedback while you are playing each note, this way you can confirm each note while you are playing (also helpful for learning basic chords and getting the intonation correct on your guitar). If it takes you 24 hours to memorize the fretboard, I would be really surprised, there is probably some other type of cognitive issue going on in your head if it takes you that long... or maybe you just need to go back to the basics EADGBE first. Step 1, memorize the notes on each open string EADGBE Step 2, memorize every note on the fretboard... it sounds hard but its ridiculously easy. Have fun and don't be discouraged, it takes years to become a skilled musician, you might be like me and dislike every noise coming out of your guitar for years, until one day you finally will appreciate what you have learned and enjoy making music.

First: it works. It works really well and I love its simplicity, humor and stickyness. I've been playing for a long time and have always been frustrated by not knowing the notes on the fretboard. I've been playing by tab and thought that was ok but it always nagged me. I grew up playing a wind instrument and piano, so I can read music but trying to find the notes on a guitar has always stumped me. Since I already knew bar chords, other major chords and could identify most of the E string frets I had a head start. In other words, it took me much less than 24 hours to understand and master the concepts in the book. I'm super curious to see if it will work with an absolute guitar newby so I'm going to share it with my son, a drummer who has an interest in guitar. I know it will because the book is well written and easy to follow. Even though I have a base knowledge, I still took my time and followed the book's instructions. I really appreciated the author's sense of humor. I use a different acronym for EADGBE but I like his so much more and found myself LOL at this an other parts. Great book and excellent bonus materials. Of all the guitar books I've bought over the years, this one is my favorite. Highly recommend.

The material within is solid, but why in the world would anyone devote their time and energy to write a good book, then print it so flimsily and faintly? The ink is literally so faint it’s hard to read!! And the book was packaged in a way too large of paper package so that it became bent badly, since it is such a flimsy book. Why? Why did you write a good book then ruin its practical usefulness and value?!

I’m a mediocre guitarist who knows the notes on the e strings. The “AHA!” moment happened for me about six minutes into this book. How did I not see it before!?! Someone with any knowledge of the fretboard will be able to know their way around the neck in less than an hour. Beginners? I dunno, but the name of this book isn’t a gimmick. At all. Buy it and save yourself some time.

It actually works!!! I have no natural guitar talent and can only play well from crazy hours of practice. Learning the fret board always intimidated me, so I didn't. I actually learned it in a few hours the day after I got this book. This is just so crazy to me. I'm an old guy. I don't learn things learn things in a day. And u never write reviews.

I am a complete beginner in my guitar journey and I was very sceptical about buying this as I’m not very good at understanding things from reading as I’m more of a visual kind of learner (YouTube) but I’ve gotten half way through this book and I’ve gone from knowing nothing about the fretboard to having a basic understanding of how the fretboard works and It feels so satisfying for me to accomplish this. I read through the book in small chunks to get a better understanding and even after reading a section I would go and mull it over like test myself without the book in front of me to see if I was correct, I’m not afraid to say I did go back into the book to check my answers. Don’t get me wrong I still have to think about where notes are on the fretboard but I’m sure after using the guitar more I will become more fluent. Overall I would highly recommend this book to a complete beginner who is interested in knowing and learning more into their guitar journey.

I consider this book a good investment, for novices, like me. Of course, if you are a musician with some experience, probably this book will not add anything to you, as a guitarist. But that’s not my case and thousands more. That’s why every publication has a target audience. This is not the holy grail to control a guitar. But it is one of the main components, at least for me, because besides being able to do things, I like to understand the mechanics behind. And that’s what this book explains: using some almost childish tricks (I still remember the “Goat Ate the Bag” thing 😁) it does what it says: gives you simple tools to quickly understand the musical organization of a fretboard. It is something that sooner or later, anyone interested in playing a guitar, will miss. In 24 hours? Well, considering that anyone committed to learn how to play an instrument, should dedicate at least one hour per day, I would say that it will take less than the 24h. But it’s better to go slowly and ensure that each stage is well understood. That will pay. I recommend this book to all the novices in this subject.

Ofrece diferentes patrones de asociación para ubicar las notas en el diapasón, puedes ubicar por ejemplo el sol (G) desde el sol 3, sol 4, sol 5, por ejemplo; al hacer las prácticas te obligas a relacionar los tonos y semitonos por cuerda. Viene escrito en inglés, pero es muy gráfico, así que es fácil seguir las instrucciones. Y como todo: "La práctica hace al maestro"

It starts easy and sounds logic. It gave me very handy tricks to memorize the Fretboard. It helps a great deal in analysing songs.

First I would like to say that I rarely write reviews, however that being said I believe that when something is worthy of recognition and useful to its audience by aiding others such as myself then it deserves a positive review and then some. I have been playing guitar for 40 years repeating most of the same bad habits and errors and same old chords and riffs reworked every which way I knew how and always feeling a little lost as to what I was really playing and while I could hear proper progressions in my head I would be fumbling all over the fret board finding those notes and being most unsatisfied losing the melody in the process and then being accepting of my limitations just would move on repeating all over again. TILL NOW! In the last year I also began playing piano and because of it's linear layout it made it much clearer to understand music but guitar was still a mess of confusion being that the fret board is by no means clearly logical at first glance as a piano layout is. So I ordered this book expecting no more than the many other books I attempted to learn from over the years and at best hoped for a droplet or two of new knowledge. Much to my surprise within only moments of reading, my guitar began to make sense and I could slowly workout the notes and their positions in my head and to see order and logic to an otherwise confusing fret board. Having already had a grasp on half steps and whole steps from piano it was easy to apply semi tones and whole tones to my thinking and finally my guitar made logical sense particularly when using the fret markers as guides. And those further helped enormously in knowing where scales position began and ended in relation to those markers so that no matter where I now was eyes closed the note albeit very slowly became clear. Additionally it has helped me tremendously in transposing piano to guitar and guitar to piano so its now a breeze to move my compositions to any instrument with ease whereas prior to this book I had to look up each note or work it out so slowly that I would lose interest, now it's a breeze I can look at my guitar neck and know the notes and immediately play them on my piano or other instruments, that's so awesome I can't thank you enough as I can now hear, see, and play the music that is in my head. Also this is a very humble author who clearly is interested in advancing music for all; a well written book, the most useful book I have ever purchased not because it teaches rapidly which indeed it does but because it teaches sensibly and logically being direct to the point with no fluff to distract you, you actually come out of this feeling darn good. Again thank you.