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!

Wow! This is the BEST instructional book! I have been taking guitar lessons to learn how to play and for my enjoyment. But, I have been curious to learn more about the frets, etc. on my own. This book explains everything in plain English, written so non-professionals can understand it AND it is TRUE to the title! The fret board can be learned in 24 hours especially if you have some basic guitar knowledge! It's a wonderful supplement to learning some "tricks" that you'd never know unless you studied theory and beyond. This book gives you a great visual set-up that allows you to incorporate it with your guitar practice. Learning is fun, easy and it surely helps you memorize everything without stress! Don't hesitate to buy it!!

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.

I haven’t played in over 20 years. When I did play I only new the pentatonic scale. I was really into the blues. I never learned all the notes. In less then 24 hours I was able to tell you were all the notes on the fret board. I highly recommend this book. It makes what I thought was daunting task simplified with a straight forward easy to fallow method.

Once you’ve memorized the 12 notes of the Chromatic scale (A-A#-B-C-C#-D-D#-E-F-F#-G-G#), which should take you all of three minutes, the author opens your eyes to how the Chromatic scale is all over the fretboard of your guitar. He then points out the patterns of where the scale is located and how to get from one note on the neck to another based on these patterns. The author claims you can learn the fretboard in less than 24 hours, which initially sounds too good to be true, but as it turns it, it took me less than an hour. You can too if you already have some familiarity with the fretboard and the Chromatic scale. Because this book was only $15, and he delivered on his promise (my eyes have now been opened to these patterns), I have to give it five stars. I also bought another one of his books (Guitar Scales for Beginners), but I am not a big fan of that book. I think there are better books & tools out there that teach you scales. He does offer some good advice on what to do with the scales once you’ve learned them, so that’s a positive. But for this particular book, it’s well worth the $15 to finally have a clear understanding of the fretboard.

Hello, I've purchased 5 of the GH books so far and have joined their web site and downloaded all bonus materials. The books are pretty well written and to the point. If you're a beginner like me additional visuals would be very helpful. And in color would help. I find myself rerading these books over and over. Sometime I stop because it does not make sense and go search You Tube for a better explanation. Which I have found many times. I have my guitar with me and a note pad. I am writting almost everything down and creating my own graphics that are MUCH more readable than in the book. I have no idea why these aithors can not create a more graphically pleasing book. Killing my eyes trying to read these books are the fonts are so light. As a graphic designer for 30 years this just kills me. At least th ecopy is large, that is nice. I do like and recommend the books. They can be frustrating to a beginner, which they are designed for. The explanations could be much better as could the visuals. They are small and hard to see at times. All of the books could use a major upgrade in design. But as I said, I'd still highly recommend it. I will buy more.

One of the easiest to understand and helpful books for beginning guitarists that are starting from Zero, out of all the guitar books i purchased for beginners i definitely fit the most out of this one, makes things really easy to understand, A must have for ground Zero beginners.

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.