Memorize the Guitar Fretboard! 7 Day Challenge
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Gracie, I have only recently returned to the guitar after a two year hiatus. I have finally recovered enough from a wicked case of arthritis in my left thumb and hand to start playing again. My first exercises include re-memorizing the fretboard; your video has provided me a real plan to accomplish this. A hundred different vlog sites have not organized the fretboard as simply and logically as yours has. I finally have a little hope to accomplish this. Thanks for your help. I am now subscribed to be notified. Looking forward to more of your videos.
Been struggling to learn the fretboard for YEARS, and this is the simplest method I’ve seen. May God bless you, Gracie!
wow thank you so much!
You are an amazing teacher ❤
How did you know I've been procrastinating on this for the last 25 years?
Hahahaha you’re not alone! Most people do!
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Saint Gracie , you place in heaven is assured for the musical joy and knowledge you share with the world ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Gracie, such a killer suggestion. I am 67 years old and nearing retirement and just decided to learn piano and acoustic guitar. I have been buying books to learn this and this is such a great way to understand this…..thank you so so very much, you are a great instructor. 😊😊❤❤!!
Been attempting to learn EVERY note all week... I prefer your way!
Day 1. I’ve nailed F 😁
Woohoo! Let me know how Day 2 goes!
It's taking me 4 days to bring it up the F to 60 bpm. I feel that this excersize is very well worth it. I'm excited to know the fretboard better! Hope others are doing well. Let's stay at it!
Is the overall goal to memorize the fret numbers, or to memorize the notes by sight?
Hi Gracie. Loved your lesson today. I would like to share a method that I have learned from my fellow bass players that has helped me to learn both the circle of fourths (and fifths) as well as the note placements on the fretboard. It goes as follows:
First, we start by playing our first sequence of notes starting from C natural, F natural, B flat, E flat, A flat, D flat, G flat, B natural, E natural, A natural, D natural, and G natural. And then repeat the sequence only on one string as many times as you like.
Try saying each note as you find them on just the one string at a time, at first.
And then after about a week or two, once you have pretty much learned the note placements for each string thoroughly, then you can try to find each individual note placement across each of the strings all together.
For instance: Try to find all of the C natural note placements forwards and backwards across all of the strings (much like what you show to do in this video).
And then try to find all F natural note placements across all of the strings forwards and backwards, and then move on to the B flat note placements, and so on and so forth.
I can say that it probably took me about a month to have the ability to completely visualize and know the placement of every last note on my 5 string, 24 fret bass using this hands on approach.
I will also admit that, at first, my mind and body resisted even wanting to cooperate with each other because this exercise requires mental concentration as well as hand eye coordination.
But I say, if you stick with this exercise, and keep slow and steady with your daily fret board note placements memory exercises, you will slowly begin to develop a sense of the note placements on your instrument.
Just remember that resistance to remembering some things does not mean that you are not talented enough, or gifted enough to remember things like the note placements on your fretboard. It just means that you need to take your time and honestly put in the work to learn such an oddly familiar but difficult to master musical skills that seems to be so daunting of a task. To actually memorize the entire note placements across the entire guitar fretboard.
But, I guarantee to you that if you put in an half of an hour before and an half of an hour after your daily practice to go through the the circle of fourths fretboard memory exercises that I have posted above, you will have memorized the entire fretboard by the end of your third month or so! So, please give it a try.
I mean, even I myself do not possess the best memory and yet now I can visualize each note placement and find all 120 note placements across my 5 string 24 fret bass.
Oh yeah! I forgot to mention that I have also memorized the order of the circle of fourths (and fifths) at the same time.
This exercise has helped me out greatly and I would like to present it to you for you use if you like, Mrs Gracie. You have helped me to understand music theory better and so I thought that I could give something back. I hope this circle of fourths fretboard memorization method can help you teach about music theory and other related musical topics. Enjoy.
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What a great compliment to Gracie‘s method. Thank you for sharing!
Wow - you are awesome Gracie! So kind and patient and logical teaching style !! Thanks much!!
Thank you Gracie. This is another great way to learn/memorize the notes on the fretboard.
Glad you think so!!
Yesterday, (6/7/2023) I was speaking to a friend of mine and telling him that although I can play quite a few chords on guitar, I was never sure what notes I was playing at a glance. Then as if by magic you posted this tutorial.
Thank you so much.
John Mayor (not to be confused with that other chap who plays guitar).
Hahaha I read your mind!
Hi Gracie. A week ago I commited myself to start the learning process of the fretboard via your 7 day challenge. Today as I was attempting to update my progress I must have accidently deleted my original post. So here is my new post. After 7 days, I think I'm fairly confident with the notes F,C,G and D at 60 BPM. Today I will add the note A to my daily practice. I also want to thank you for all your music theory videos. I've been following those for several weeks now. Thanks again Gracie!~
Woohoo!!!! Awesome work!!! Keep it up and let me know when you've got a new update on your progress!!!!!
@@GracieTerzian Hi Gracie. I'm back for an update. So on day 8, I added the note A to go along with the F, C, G and D that I had already learned on the previous 7 Days. Unfortunatley 2 days after adding my A note, life happened and I was without a guitar for 8 days . I was determined to continue my studies even without a guitar. Thanks to your method, even without a guitar in hand, I would visualize in my head the fretboard and say out loud F 1, 8, 3,10, 6, 1 ... C 8, 3, 10, 5, 1, 9 etx... for all the notes. As of yesterday, life is normal again now that I have access to my guitars again. So today marks day 19 and I will add my final 2 notes E and B. Even with this slight hiccup, I feel pretty confident as the original goal I set for myself a full month.
@@GracieTerzian Hi again Gracie. So today marks day 25. I am happy to say, thanks to your encouragement, that I am now a master of my fingerboard. Well at least the natural notes. This is a BIG accomplishment for me as I first picked up the guitar about 50 years ago and you have helped me accomplish something in less than one month something that I wasn't able to do in 50 years. Thanks again Gracie.
@@jliveguy5164 WOW that is so amazing! i'm so proud of you!!! it was YOU who put in the hard work to make it happen! keep scrambling up the order of it and eventually you can venture into trying to identify sharp and flat notes too!!! But first just enjoy your accomplishment and give yourself a round of applause!!!!
@@GracieTerzian Hi Gracie. So today marks day 43 and I am so excited to say that I have nailed the fingerboard including the sharps and flats. My daily routine now with metronome set to 60 BPM is to go around both the circle of 5ths and the circle of 4ths. I love your teaching style and thanks for all your encouragements!~
I’m starting today. ❤
Hey, Gracie, thank you so much for this lesson! This is a great approach for people who are good at memorizing numbers! This is what I’ve been waiting for. Thanks again!
Thank you Gracie for a great class. Will be starting the challenge tomorrow morning!
Awesome. This is great stuff Gracie. It is very appreciated
Right on young lady. Also helps to learn to group notes togeher. Ive almost gotten the fretboard memorized. Im 61. Teaching myself. Take care 😎👍👌💯🎸🎸😊😊
Rock on!
This is a really simple and elegant way of getting all these notes down, thank you! I've been playing guitar for 14 years & recently decided to brush up on my theory. Thanks for the excellent conent!
When a method is this fun and easy it's motivating to practice. Thanks.
Thanks Gracie: I have tried several methods to learn the fretboard notes, I this sounds like the one that will help me to make a breakthrough 😊
Great lesson Gracie! Thank you. And you're so sweet! And kind, because your lessons are downloadable. I've put off learning the fretboard long enough already! I'm inspired to start right away!
Amazing!!! Let me know how it's going!
Excellent approach! Been doing stuff in spreadsheets that are color coded. Adding the numbering system to the arsenal. Thank you so much for sharing this with us!
Amazing! Glad you like it :)
I have tried many techniques. This is by far the BEST and fastest way to memorize, I am astonished!! I have been playing for a long time and I have struggled with this. Thank you!!!!
I’m so happy to hear that!!!
This is awesome. I’ve been looking for a way to learn this! I will def try this. Thank you🙂
Good video, thank you Gracie!
your lessons is what I really needed, Thanks Gracie, it will help me lot,
I just found today your channel, and literally raised up my hand and thank God that I found your videos. I already jot down notes from your lessons, I learned sooooo much
Gracie: Thanks so much for this lesson; I've tried several methods of memorizing the fretboard with moderate success. This time, through repetition, I think I'll finally get it.
Amazing! That makes me so happy to hear :)
Also, I have steered a friend to you and I do believe this method is a perfect beginner starter, yet more wholesome that staring at a book and learning to read music at the same time.
Thank you so much!! I appreciate it!
This is fantastic, Gracie. Cheers!
Thank you!
Great lesson thank you 🙏 😊
Hi Gracie, great lesson as usual. Love your thumbs up statue😎
Gracie your's teaching is amazing I have learnt Guitar something better than nothing thankyou so much May God Bless you bye.
So happy to hear that!
Another drill I found helped massively while concurrently learning one note set at a time,
was to cycle thru the notes on the bottom 2 bass strings, ie
F1 8 (x4) - (saying it "F ONE, EIGHT!")
C8 3
G3 X
DX 5
A5 0
E0 7
B7 2
(I use X instead of 10 when I write it out to simplify to single digits)
The 'A' string fret is the next note's 'E' string fret, which helps you remember the cycle (except for B, which is off by 1)
Most people already know the E string notes, so if you nail the bass string pair,
you already know the start of each number sequence (and finish, high e string same as low, which is already half the notes),
and just have to memorise a 3 number code for the remaining inner DGB strings when you get to that note set.
Thanks for the cool video Gracie!
Great video Gracie! Starting the challenge today 👍
Woohoo!! Good luck & keep me posted!!
Great idea!
This is such a good method of learning the note positions on the guitar. I taught myself this method many years back. When transitioning from chords to scales this Method is extremely useful.
Has this allowed you to completely internalize the notes? Can you look at the fretboard and say the notes without a thought?
Amazing instruction!! Thank you 🙏🏻
Thank you!!
Starting the challenge on 10/15 with the .pdf, thank you for putting this together!
Thank you so much for this lesson!!
You’re very welcome!
It's nice will be practicing it mam
Love this approach! As a guitar player working on learning bass (and bass clef), this will be enormously helpful.
Amazing!!
Yes !!
Very nice to see you and learn from you again . Thank you.
I hope that ‘super baby ‘ is doing well , soaring ön …
Thank you so much!!
Im starting this challenge today.
I already have the first four or five frets memorized and I am using all kinds of techniques to learn the rest. I like your numbering system a lot and will add that to my tool box. Thanks !
Great! Good luck :)
This is excellent. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I think this might help. Instead of memorising fret numbers, just have a single rule: 7up (like the drink) and Take 5 (like Brubeck) when going from any note on low E and travelling across the fretboard. Then there's the usual B string exception = Take 4 and add 8.
Cool tip! Thanks for sharing!
GENIUS.............You must be an Ole Guitar Instructor......😎
You can never have enough great tips. I'll use this along with Gracies's method. Thanks!~
Im gonna give it a shot. Started 12/05/23. Thanks Gracie
I just saw this great way of doing it. I definitely needed this. Taking the CHALLENGE 😅😊
You got this!!!!! Let me know how it goes!!
Excellent job Gracie
To think of it as numbers is dynamite
Haven’t seen it taught that way anywhere
You are a good teacher
Glad you like it!! Thank you!
Hi Gracie, I love the idea of practicing the notes up & down the fretboard. I've never heard of learning the note fret #'s, only the next position based on the previous position on the fretboard.
Thank you
Wonderful challenge and breakdown. Thank you for remembering us guitar enthusiast and a beginner such as myself 😅
Thank you!!
I have seen variations on this before, but I like this one best. Starting today!
Yay! Let me know how it goes after 7 days!!
Update: I’ve memorized 3 notes in the past week. This system rocks!
Great lesson, Gracie! Thank you ❤ New to your channel. Starting the fretboard challenge today. Will let you know how I’ve progressed in a month’s time. 👍🎸
Thank you! Challenge accepted 💪
Woohoo! Good luck!!
very cool. Great way to memorise the notes. Do you have a lesson on simplifying modes?
Oh wow Gracie,🌹 i always wondered how to get familiar with the fretboard, never succeeded and I'm struggling for 40 years already 😂 I'm surely going to try this❤
Woohoo!! Let me know how it goes!!
OK, I will start tomorrow morning. It seems a good way to learn it. 🙂
Woohoo! Good luck and keep me posted how it’s going after 7 days!
I’m still learning. 🙂 Your approach was definitely a good starting point and within a week i could play each note. But it’s still difficult to know the note immediately when your finger is for example on string 4, fretboard 6. Together with the interesting video from Ricky Comiskey and some more practice every day, for example just by walking with the dog or sitting in the car, visualizing, I’m sure within one more month I have mastered it 😏 but I also know it’s after that then even more important keep practicing to stay on track. 😁
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Plus side of guitars - you can always just keep cheat notes on the back or edge of the neck, and no one will ever see. :) In all seriousness, that is tougher without any fret markers... when I was learning guitar, I hated the fact that the intervals were different from violin, which I'd played for 10+ years. Then after going to "guitar camp", I realized I really had to know the frets by heart so I just sat with a book and played across the strings back and forth at random frets, naming the notes (and double checking the book). Practicing a few scales all different ways helps too. The part I really remembered and which helped was knowing without hesitation where all the half step intervals for C major would be - and that helped break up the neck since the B/C and E/F repeat right next to each other on most of the pairs of strings. (so in essence, learning A minor everywhere was easy since it had that pattern for the 1w2h3 - 4w5h6 on the same frets on adjacent strings)
Great advice, thank you for sharing with everyone!!
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@@GracieTerzian you take good care of us.
Cool
Good luck/happy learning to everyone trying this method. I hope it works for you. Please let us all know.
Thinking one up for sharps, one down for flats is an easy addition once you know the tones.
Woohoo yes!! Thanks for encouraging everyone!!
Wow 😮❤
You always are a delight to see. This one though, I am lucky if I can remember my telephone number - lol. Thank you though…
Hahaha take it slowly and just do one note at a time!
Is that a 3/4 size classical guitar? I’m looking for a good smaller classical. Great lesson!
Great idea to do them in fifths to also memorise the circle order. Definitely doing this saying out loud the numbers.
But is it just me or does anyone else think about the repeating pattern where each note raises two steps after two strings?
I.e. note on D-string is two steps higher than note on low E-string. Same way note on G-string is two steps higher than on A-string. Then A-string note is always 5 lower than low E-string and B-string is 5 higher than E-string. And it loops an octave on 12th of course.
So that forms easy to see formula where note progression is E: note position, A: e-position-5, D: e-position+2, G: a-position+2, B: e-position+5.
So example F note would be in E=1, A=1-5 (12-4 loops to 8), D=1+2 (3), G=8+2 (10), B=1+5 (6) e=same than low E.
Or maybe I just think it overly complicated way. Going to part take the challenge too!
Magnifica.👑👑👑👑👑👑
I have a feeling you have methods to teach type A personaities. So, yes, even some of us go stagnet because of frustration. I will take this challenge.
Yay for taking the challenge!! Good luck and I hope it goes well!! Try to do it in 7 days but give yourself more time if you need it! And keep me posted about how it goes for you.
Hello, Miss Gracie! My name is Michael, and I live near Boston, Massachusetts! I would like to know if the notes in the lessons are the numbers in the right side of the video that will culminate into the 10 charts? I thank you, and would like to have as many lessons I could find. Thanks for your help!
There is 8 frets difference between two same notes of adjacent strings only on strings 3 and 2 it is nine fret difference. You can think this way also. Thank you.
Thanks for sharing and pointing it out!!
@@OffcailGracieTerzian
Thank you.
Can you explain in more detail why you started on F instead of A?
Thanks Gracie.
I think she said she was going starting in the order of sharps. Not 100%
@@GuerreroGamez She did say that but I don’t understand why she started there.
She is following the order of sharps in the Circle of Fifths, which is an excellent aid in remembering the sharps and flats in the major scales. Gracie has excellent tutorials on that as well. The mnemonic is Farmer Charlie Goes Down And Ends Battle... FCGDAEB
Hey! Yes I was moving in the order of sharps which is FCGDAEB. Whenever you practice scales or anything like that it’s great to move around the circle of 4ths/5ths (which is the same order as the order of sharps), because then you are practicing multiple things at once. It’s good to have to order or sharps deeply ingrained into your memory, that’s why it’s a good order to go in. You don’t have to practice this exercise in that order of course. I just like it because each note in the order of sharps moves up a 5th (or down a 4th) and it’s good to practice that relationship of 4ths and 5ths between notes since it’s so common in music. Check out my circle of 5ths videos if you want to learn more about that stuff. But in summary, you don’t have to go in the order of sharps.. I just chose it because it’s a good order of notes to practice and be familiar with. I hope this answers your question more or less!
Yes exactly! Thank you!
You are Sooooo cute in your braids and teaching today!
The last number is always the same as the first, so you only need to memorise 5 numbers per note. If you use a system where numbers are replaced by consonants, you only need to remember a max. 5-syllable word or phrase for each note. This way one can probably memorize all the series including the sharps in less than 7 minutes, but it doesn't really help you find the notes when actually playing the guitar.
Interesting approach! Thanks for sharing!!
@@GracieTerzian Actually, I changed my mind. Given that the World record for memorizing a deck of cards is less than 15s, a memory master could probably learn the system for any random tuning of the guitar in 7 seconds. I think that's the real challenge here ;) But again, useful guitar-playing memory develops through years of analysis and exercise.
For memorizing the above number groups, you really only have to memorize the first one and understand the pattern. The first number and last number in each grouping are always the same. Starting with the first group, each number shifts to the left one place leaving room for the new last number, which is the same as the first. The third to last number after this shift is also decremented by 1. That's it. So 1831061 is the only number you need to memorize. Just visualize the shift movement and you have it.
hi, I like this idea can you elaborate please, I do not quite get it.Thank you
Sure it is very easy. Each guitar string is a note corresponding to 0. The first is E so 1 is F on the first string. So 1, 8, 3, 10, 6, and 1 are the locations of F progressing down the strings counting up the scale in half steps from that string's note. For the next note (C), you shift to the number group to the left giving 8, 3, 10, 5, 1, and 8. Notice after the shift the 8 is in first place so it must also be in last place. Also, after the shift, the third to last number must decrement by 1. So the 6 becomes a 5. So in a couple of hours you can easily memorize or figure out all the number groups for the fret locations of each note. Next is 3, 10, 5, 0, 8 and 3. Then 10, 5, 0, 7, 3 and 10. Then 5, 0, 7, 2, 10 and 5. Then 0, 7, 2, 9, 5 and 0. Then 7, 2, 9, 4, 0 and 7 and so on
boutta start tmrw
Woohoo! Good luck and keep me posted about when you finish it!
ive finished. now i will run through all of them every day. What’s the next assignment?
@@liquidusnake93 yayayay! Great job!!!! Can you do them in scrambled orders and with a fast metronome? That’s the next step
this past week i practiced going down to the first string and back up to sixth as a “set” so i could get the backwards visuals. i practiced at 40bpm and started at 50 yesterday and i am still working on scrambled order proficiency.
I need that guitar, my Taylor makes my hands hurt eventually but I'm too sentimental to get rid of it and far too broke to buy another Taylor.
I used to have a cheap nylon classical but than I went homeless ans had it on the street, my god it got obliterated, the sidewood, front and back just came apart into separate peices.
As you are a better guitarist than I (for sure on the uke), how important do you think it is to actually know all of the notes on the fretboard? Or is it mainly just a flex?
Hey why did you order the notes in the sharps?
Now you need to pick up a 5-string bass for all the bassists in your audience.
Im not getting any links on my phone to download the PDF
I guess I can use this lesson for my baritone...
You sure can!
@@GracieTerzian I will just leave the low strings E and A out
Hi Gracie - is the pdf only for patreon members? Thanks.
Yes it is at this time
@@GracieTerzian Thanks .
I don't begrudge you earning from your considerable talents!
(I'm just cheap!) :)
@@johnx9318 send me an email contact@ukulalaworld.com :)
I know it's good and the video didn't ever started
Hahaha :)
please do a manipulate triad on fretboard , my brain just unbrained how it worrkkkk
How does it work if you play a note randomly on the guitar, and call it out?
How do I get the PDF
Started today. 7/9/2023
Woohoo! Good luck and give us an update in a few days to tell us how it’s going!
Why is it called the order of Sharp's. First time hearing that.
Dont see where to download any PDF
There must be something to this.
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‘7 days’
Dang! I knew I shouldn’t have watched that video
What does it mean when you say "in the order of sharps?" BTW memorizing six sequences of six numbers each is well beyond my ability. Memorizing is not my strong suit (otherwise I wouldn't have felt the need for this lesson).
This video might help you better understand what the order of sharps is:
th-cam.com/video/sWAaJF9Wk0w/w-d-xo.html
yea i think it’s ok if you can’t memorize the numbers, honestly i feel like memorizing 12 random groups of numbers is way harder than what we’re actually trying to learn here. we’re trying to actually learn the notes, the names of the notes, and where they are on the fretboard. i just think if we’re memorizing a series of numbers primarily we are gonna think of the notes as those numbers when we play them instead of thinking of the names of the notes while we play them, which is what you should really focus on. idk that’s just what i think
Question
Why do you say 0 on the letters
G D A E B ?
Thanks for everything you are amazing, this is a great exercise I tried to learn all notes to every string first natural.
But It’s really good that way. Congratulations I’m gonna practice….!!!!
you are still beautifull 🌹
Thank you!
I have been playing guitar for 20 years, and I have never understod why you would want to learn where the notes are. For me its just shapes and different positions, and If you are playing from a tab, its just numbers, never notes.