Topic: fretboard
hello everyone
i know im a pain in the ass but is it important to memorize each note on the fretboard individually?
Royston
- upyerkilt
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Re: fretboard
Hi JImmy,
firstly, dont feel like you are being a pain in the arse. This forum is here to help everyone, each other. Even if you dont get the same person helping you all the time, we are all here to help each other ( or at least I hope we are)
To answer your question, it depends on what sort of style you play I suppose. If you play lead guitar I think it would be handy to know individual notes but probably not essential.
I could not look at a fret board and tell you any note straight away, but it is easily worked out.
I learned what each note was on 6 strings for the first 5 frets, but now as I look at my fret board I can not tell you what every note is straight away, would take 10 seconds for some of them and others I know straight away.
If you are strumming straight chords it is not nescessary to know all note if any.
It is handy to know the notes up to the 5th fret to read chords such as D/C which would be a D chord and holding a C note, but even then you could sit and work out the note first,
so na, you dont need to memorise all notes
ken
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Re: fretboard
I suppose it depends how effective you want to be at your instrument. It does make you a better player for sure but its probably a lot more helpful to use your ears if it sounds right and guitar is in tune then trust your ears unless your tone deaf of course. I tend to think harmonically using my knowledge of music theory to guide me around the fretboard and knowing in a certain key that particular shapes and fingering patterns will work on a certain chord. If anything learn as many different chords and their inversions as you can that will help you a lot more than memorising every single note on the fretboard, because of course if you use different tuning other than standard that will all be thrown out the window. If you dont already know learn some basic music theory jazz and classical, even the basics will cast a light for you and give you inspiration. Hope this helps.
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- jerome.oneil
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Re: fretboard
It's not, but it helps.
If you want to memorize something that will help you play lead, memorize the following chord forms, and learn to play them closed (i.e. barred).
C A G E D.
You can use those to play anywhere on the fretboard, in any key.
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If you learn to read, you will notice that there are repeating patterns all over the fretboard. As you get better at reading, you realize how much you didn't know you knew. You begin to read it like it's English. When you read English, the individual letters aren't what matters, but the entire sentence is where you find meaning.
Re: fretboard
thanks every1 for the help please keep posting info id like to hear from as many people as i can, ive just found an excellent website which explained really easilly how to memorize the fretboard.
<a href="http://guitar.about.com/library/weekly/aa092600b.htm" target="_blank">http://guitar.about.com/library/weekly/aa092600b.htm</a>
this site was great for helping me understand a bit more and giving simple things that i can do but didnt no it. i didnt realize how simple it was i assumed all notes where all over the place i didnt realize they were in an order.
thanks agin to every1 and please keep replying im sure others out there have had similar problems.
Royston
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- jerome.oneil
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If you learn to read, you will notice that there are repeating patterns all over the fretboard. As you get better at reading, you realize how much you didn't know you knew. You begin to read it like it's English. When you read English, the individual letters aren't what matters, but the entire sentence is where you find meaning.
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Absolutely. That CAGED sequence is the order.
Play C at the nut. Thats the C chord form.
Play C at the 3rd fret. Thats the A chord form.
Play it at the 5th fret. Thats the G chord form.
Play it at the 8th fret. That's the E chord form.
Play it at the 11th fret. That's the D chord form.
That works for any chord, anwhere on the fretboard, and gives you full voicing all the way from nut to bridge.
The more I learn about the layout, the more amazed I am at how it all works together.
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Re: fretboard
[quote title=jerome.oneil wrote on Tue, 13 February 2007 19:54
Absolutely. That CAGED sequence is the order.
Play C at the nut. Thats the C chord form.
Play C at the 3rd fret. Thats the A chord form.
Play it at the 5th fret. Thats the G chord form.
Play it at the 8th fret. That's the E chord form.
Play it at the 11th fret. That's the D chord form.
That works for any chord, anwhere on the fretboard, and gives you full voicing all the way from nut to bridge.
The more I learn about the layout, the more amazed I am at how it all works together.
Hey thats cool...I knew of the concept but I never heard it wrapped up so tightly in a mnominc device...ill use that in lessons for sure!
