I greatly appreciate people like you taking the time to share their knowledge and making it available for free online. I figure I've gotten multiple, excellent guitar lessons from your videos. Many thanks!
I've been playing guitar for 24 years and this is hands down the best breakdown/analysis of the notes on the fretboard I've ever seen. I'm an intuitive player and play by ear. I've been wanting to learn what I'm actually doing for years and this finally cracked the code for me. Your face to face students are lucky! Thank you so much for these videos!
I'm just learning to play .I've watched a great number of videos and read books .but this is the first time the fret board has been explained so complete
Hi Ricky I am 52 years old and have been dabbling is guitar for several years. In that time, I have had numerous private guitar lessons and I’ve purchased more online courses than I can count. Like many others, I have always found fret-board theory extremely daunting, confusing, and tedious, but the way you explain things with simple diagrams is genius. After all these years of trying to learn songs from tabs and other general guitar related time wasting, I finally realised I would never get out of my rut unless I start memorize the fret-board notes. Since I found your channel on TH-cam my playing has improved noticeably, and I so wish I had found you sooner. I’ve been studying your material for less than a week and I have finally learned the fret-board using a combination of your CAGED theory lessons and this chunking approach. I love your teaching style. Thank you.
I'm from Brazil , and I'll be honest . When I first looked at your video I had the impression it wouldn't be good for the lack of a great production , but hey mate I was completely wrong .... you've done through your 3 minutes videos something I'm quite sure is super important for any guitar player in the world in a simple , intelligent and practical way . I feel I really owe you that . all the best mate !🇧🇷😊
I've played many years and kept skipping this video because it appeared to remedial. I'm good at some living yard problems but Iver complicate simple ones. Over the years I've come up with hilarious phrases to memorize the fretboard such as Don't Get Caught Fishing After Dark (10th) fret. Having looked at hundreds of diagrams I have never seen the fretboard illustrated vertically like this, nor explained in such an easy to remember way. You are an excellent teacher and thank you!
At start (a few years ago), I knew NOTHING about guitar. After buying a few books (yours included) and watching weeks worth of your and others info, I'm finally starting to get the hang of it. Thanks :) !
How have I never found you before. You are the best guitar teacher I have ever seen. And a fellow northern chap to boot. Love your teaching style. I'll be going though every vid and buying your book
I just bought my 1st guitar, & signed up for online guitar lessons through Udemy. Have been working with that a little. But have to say, this is my 1st time viewing this particular lesson. I even understood it, & I know nothing about guitar. Saw one of your other videos about memorizing the musical alphabet backwards using Mr. T, a kid pointing at him, & what appeared to be an FBI agent. You were wearing a hat w/FBI on it. That stuck out, & I worked w/that lesson as well. Thank You!
Ricky, I just came across your You Tube lessons and I am totally blown away. You have cleared up more in the past week of watching and practicing alone. Your teaching this old dogs some new tricks Thank you!
As an American (across the pond) (turn left at Greenland), I think I can grasp the term "Tone" for the while. It certainly works for me. Whatever floats your boat. Just don't call it Cup vs. Half Cup. 😊. Joking, of course! Great lessons Chief! 👏🏻👍🥂.
I was looking for something like this. I've been diddling around with the Guitar for years and now that I am older have more free time. I am starting to play it more earnestly. Thank You for this useful video.
Al here, don’t need for you to hope anymore, your doing great. You’ve given me so much, good information, I’ve got to keep it all in my old head somehow. You are a brilliant teacher thanks a lot. Keep well. Al🤩🤩
I've compared all of the videos on memorizing the keyboard. Your instruction technique is by far superior to any I've seen. Video quality is rough, but the most important thing is that this is the quickest way to learn the fretboard I've seen taught. 5 stars.
@@rickysguitar Subscribed. I started your binge list. I think all of your videos are very superb. I have learned so much more from your instruction than I have any that I have seen online in the last couple of years. Your fretboard video taught me the fretboard less than halfway through the video. the fact that you employ both traditional, and non-traditional teaching techniques together is awesome. Wish I were local, I would sign up for your school.
Hi, I'm a beginner guitar player..I have been looking for ideas how to learn the notes on the fretboard.. your video has ' relieved my headache'.. thank you so much.
Ricky …… I have been playing long enough to know cowboy cords and I can tune my guitar but I have been lost because I don’t know the fret board but this lesson flipped the switch ! Thank you !
Great way to teach this... Back in the day (just after the invention of the guitar) I was so confused with "whole, half, whole, whole, half" pattern teaching. Great job sir!
Thank you so much for your thoughtfulness, your kindness and your generosity in sharing your knowledge :) this is the first of your videos I ever watch and I sure will watch more! I haven't even heard you play yet 😅 but if you have as much talent playing as you do teaching, I have no doubt it will be dazzling. Thanks a bunch Ricky Comiskey, you have no idea how valuable this all is. - I do realise I'm saying all this whilst giving you $5 I'm a bit ashamed.. - know though that your teaching is priceless 🙌🏼 Thank you thank you!
No reason this shouldn't be the biggest guitar instruction channel on TH-cam. You tecniques out of the box and make more sense than any other instructor I have seen.
I thought it was impossible coming into the musician world for the first time and this video really helped me learn the board. Also what really helps is getting out a paper and doing exactly what he draws on the white board
I get it FINALLY! I’m 57 and have been struggling for years to try to learn guitar that I would give up time after time. I am going to start watching your videos.
You just opened my eyes and the fretboard in 10 minutes. I have tried to learn this for over 10 years. Thank you so much. I can't believe it has been right there. Why does no one teach like this?
I like you’re teaching... I’ve been playing for years but self taught.... I’m 71 and want to learn much more.....thanks for what you do..... I’ll be watching....
Been playing 15 years or so, while I didn't learn anything new here. It definitely gave me a new perspective of the fretboard, and a better way of navigating it. It's such a simple thing but works wonders. Thanks.
I am 75 playing guitar since 15. Have been all at sea when it came to memorising notes on the fretboard. Today's lesson was like me Saul, struck by a bright light. Thanks Ricky for this revealation. I'm surely converted and on my way to becoming Paul. God bless. Lawrence Monteiro
Ricky, Come over to this video from your 14/1/22 video. Glad I did as I found another excellent lesson regarding the fret board. Also this is the first time I've sat through a music lesson since searching for them on the internet Thanks.
Ricky...absolutely the best lesson for learning the fretboard on TH-cam. Honestly, I didn’t believe I could learn the fretboard in one day! But, after watching this video I understand the fretboard and have memorized the location of the chunks and notes individually! It worked!! This video, and your excellent teaching abilities, made things “click”. Thank you for your professionalism and unselfish willingness to help people understand and express ourselves through the guitar! I sent a lesson fee to your PayPal. Have a pint or two on me!
This is exciting for me. I played around on a guitar when I was 15 for about 3 years, with a few lessons. Now I am 68 and feeling drawn back to it again (middle age crisis HA). I have learned more in 26 minutes watching your video than I did in 3 years when I was younger. This all makes sense now by having a visual dry erase board showing the patterns. I can't wait to see your other videos and practicing with them. The visual image of the keyboard has made all the difference in the world. Thank you so much for doing these videos.
I kinda stumbled onto this by listening to what I was playing. A light came on and I began to play all over the key board. About freaked me out. Now I go all up and down the key board playing. But yet I still feel I'm in a rut. But practice makes perfect and leads you sometimes by accident into more things to play and more to learn and figure out. Thanks for sharing.. I got a long way to go. But for me prayer helps me the most. God is our best friend and He lacks no knowledge at all so PRAY and ask God to help you. Of course I am asking Him to help me play beautiful music that I know He would like and that I would like to and especially that it inspires people who hear to go the right way. Thanks!
Ricky love this explaination. It also means visually you can diagonally easily well fairly easily diagonally transpose to move across to identify the same note. So when your reading music you can play e.g. middle c and other notes (chord) up and down the guitar. More practice!
It's a G! Never before have I been so involved in a TH-cam video. It's making sense for the first time. Only just started playing. BEST LESSON! Taught me so much . THANKS! I've subscribed.
I'm 73 and have been playing guitar on and off for a good deal of that time. I also play drums and bass in the church band. But I've had more "aha" moments in the past few weeks than in all that time!
Ricky lad I have to say thanks!! I'm 54 and been dabbling with me guitar for 30 years, never learning the fretboard. I've learnt more in a couple of your videos than the previous 30 years worth of TH-cam, books and apps. You make things so clear it's great. I haven't made much progress for years through laziness and a dodgy finger but I've found a new lease of life with it all now since finding your channel. Do Cheers mate and keep up the fantastic work!! 🍻🤘😁🤘🍻
Hey Ricky, just bought your brilliant TH-cam book - thank you so VERY much for taking the time to compile all of your worksheets together - much appreciated! Watched this lesson again with the book, makes a huge difference. Love the chunking method. You are indeed an excellent teacher - your enthusiasm for teaching the guitar is plain for all to see. Many, many thanks!
Wow, I finally found someone who teaches using a proper accent (I'm from Huddersfield too), and not only that, uses an overhead projector!!! You totally rock, and I am absolutely digging your theory lessons, really well explained 👍
Hello Ricky I've been having guitar lessons for around 7 months now which I really enjoy. Then I was given the twelve notes to learn with everything on it. I was really stuggling because my tuitor never explained which was the best way to do this. Then I've watch the last 2 videos about BEADGCF and learning the ABC DEF and G. All I can say is wow you've made my life a lot easier now. Thank you so much 👏👏
The Red Sea has parted... standing there is the shepherd of those lost amidst music theory and fretboard navigation... this Shepherd is Rick Comiskey... leading me out of the darkness and into the light of understanding... thank you for this video and its content...it is what I needed...great job!
Best use of chunking and patterns I've seen to explain this yet. So many guitar tutors want you to go through the same painful exercises they did. This is by far easier for anyone who learns by patterns (i.e. most people). Thank you!
Some excellent pointers of how to help memorize the guitar fret board notes. Notes B, C, and E, F without a space between (next to each other), and "loner"notes G,A,D with a space before and after. Of course spaces are where the Sharp's or Flat's go.
Very good. Just cleared my road block. Could not figure out the keys. I was counting from the neck and getting lost along the way. Was very frustrated. Most instructors just put their fingers fast all over the fret board and before you know it they are on the next key. Oh my God. So logical. Good job. You made my day.
I NEVER found an inspiring and motivating explanation of how to memorize the notes on the fretboard that I found easy enough to invest my time in. But this is going to be the way for me. I'm going to do it and succeed !
Hello Ricky, Without looking at the comments previous to watching this lesson, half way through I said this is without doubt the absolute best method to start to learn the guitar fretboard, after watching the video I then looked at the comments, I wanted to leave one, I notice everyone else said the exact same thing, I notice you did not explain # and flats, but that's quite easy to get ones head around, your idea of the chunks method is definately the starting point, playing guitar for 40 years, and never learned the fretboard, maybe I'm too late, always wanted to play lead guitar be it country or rock, improvise with my own bits of nothings, sometimes sounding great, ask me repeat, forget it, It's only now I'm realising not knowing the map of the fretboard is what was holding me back all along, I must check out your videos, once again excellent tutorial here, and I'm not surprised everyone on here loves your teaching, stay safe
I’ve been looking at TH-cam videos on guitar for the last three months or so and I must say I get the most from your videos. I played when I was in school but only learned a few pentatonic shapes as well as the beginning of the caged system. Well done lad!
Hey Ricky, you highlight the notes so perfectly that even non guitarist can understand your method. You enligten things that are very to memorise. Another lessen which I will look over few times because I am not good at picking things so quickly. But I must admit I am having fun by just watching and slowly understanding things about the guitar. Many thanks.
This is fantastic. ADHD has caused me to be bored to no end while trying to learn this. Showing the patterns that cross locked it in for me. Thank you!
I think I finally got it! Thank you so much! I've been playing guitar about 15 years and always been struggling with this... I've watched so many other videos which made me just more confused, but this was easy and simple (and actually very logical) way to memorize fretboard.
I have been looking for several years to understand the notes on the fretboard and literary in two videos you have made it so clear! Brilliant! Thank you!
I ordered your book! I've playing for years with a muddled idea of things. I'm on lessons 5-7 and this online/book stuff is really clarifying my playing, and what is happening musically - conquer major, move on to its little sibling the minor, and beyond!
I have epilepsy, which caused me to have memory issues, and in turn created problems for me with trying to remember the note locations on the fretboard. Recently, the desire to try again to learn has started a fire inside for me to push and learn to do what I want to do... play guitar. This video made me feel as if I found a key to a lock. Thank you. I subscribed.
If you've had a stroke. You might want to consider hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT for short). It may help you recover what you lost. Expensive but worth a try. Good luck.
Thanks, this is the first video that explained how to learn the notes on the fretboard to find the whole notes. The sharps and flats are easy after learning this. Too many guitar teachers really confuse us players that don't know where all of the notes are and really talk right over my head, since guys like me have played be ear for quit sometime, without learning these basics.
Wow thanks Rick! suddenly after many years of playing badly, a light has come on and you're responsible. You made it fun, memorable and easy to understand.
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Bro there is bcd and efg chunk too :)
Hi Ricky, the term you were referring to is Apophenia or Pareidolia.
Thanks Ricky for sharing wonderful trick
I absolutely love it. Amazing stuff
It's what I've watiñg to learn for a very long time. So glad I found U
I greatly appreciate people like you taking the time to share their knowledge and making it available for free online. I figure I've gotten multiple, excellent guitar lessons from your videos. Many thanks!
Eyup Douglas! Thank you for this! It's very much appreciated and I'm super stoked you're enjoying it. Ricky
I've been playing guitar for 24 years and this is hands down the best breakdown/analysis of the notes on the fretboard I've ever seen. I'm an intuitive player and play by ear. I've been wanting to learn what I'm actually doing for years and this finally cracked the code for me. Your face to face students are lucky! Thank you so much for these videos!
Same here.
God damn it, why didn’t I find this earlier? 😂
same here bro
Late to the party but me too!
I'm just learning to play .I've watched a great number of videos and read books .but this is the first time the fret board has been explained so complete
Hi Ricky
I am 52 years old and have been dabbling is guitar for several years. In that time, I have had numerous private guitar lessons and I’ve purchased more online courses than I can count.
Like many others, I have always found fret-board theory extremely daunting, confusing, and tedious, but the way you explain things with simple diagrams is genius.
After all these years of trying to learn songs from tabs and other general guitar related time wasting, I finally realised I would never get out of my rut unless I start memorize the fret-board notes.
Since I found your channel on TH-cam my playing has improved noticeably, and I so wish I had found you sooner. I’ve been studying your material for less than a week and I have finally learned the fret-board using a combination of your CAGED theory lessons and this chunking approach.
I love your teaching style.
Thank you.
I'm from Brazil , and I'll be honest . When I first looked at your video I had the impression it wouldn't be good for the lack of a great production , but hey mate I was completely wrong .... you've done through your 3 minutes videos something I'm quite sure is super important for any guitar player in the world in a simple , intelligent and practical way . I feel I really owe you that . all the best mate !🇧🇷😊
I've played many years and kept skipping this video because it appeared to remedial. I'm good at some living yard problems but Iver complicate simple ones. Over the years I've come up with hilarious phrases to memorize the fretboard such as Don't Get Caught Fishing After Dark (10th) fret. Having looked at hundreds of diagrams I have never seen the fretboard illustrated vertically like this, nor explained in such an easy to remember way. You are an excellent teacher and thank you!
At start (a few years ago), I knew NOTHING about guitar. After buying a few books (yours included) and watching weeks worth of your and others info, I'm finally starting to get the hang of it. Thanks :) !
oh my God - I've only just found this.....Where have you been all my life??? What a brilliant way of teaching, Thank you - much appreciated.
How have I never found you before. You are the best guitar teacher I have ever seen. And a fellow northern chap to boot. Love your teaching style. I'll be going though every vid and buying your book
Thanks Dave
Great lesson , 40 plus years playing, finally a sensible approach I understand. Thank you.
This guy is pretty darn good!
Been playing for 25 years, this is the best way I've seen to memorize the fret board! Really good stuff!!!
I just bought my 1st guitar, & signed up for online guitar lessons through Udemy. Have been working with that a little. But have to say, this is my 1st time viewing this particular lesson. I even understood it, & I know nothing about guitar. Saw one of your other videos about memorizing the musical alphabet backwards using Mr. T, a kid pointing at him, & what appeared to be an FBI agent. You were wearing a hat w/FBI on it. That stuck out, & I worked w/that lesson as well. Thank You!
Ricky, I just came across your You Tube lessons and I am totally blown away. You have cleared up more in the past week of watching and practicing alone. Your teaching this old dogs some new tricks Thank you!
As an American (across the pond) (turn left at Greenland), I think I can grasp the term "Tone" for the while. It certainly works for me. Whatever floats your boat. Just don't call it Cup vs. Half Cup. 😊. Joking, of course! Great lessons Chief! 👏🏻👍🥂.
I was looking for something like this. I've been diddling around with the Guitar for years and now that I am older have more free time. I am starting to play it more earnestly. Thank You for this useful video.
Al here, don’t need for you to hope anymore, your doing great. You’ve given me so much, good information, I’ve got to keep it all in my old head somehow. You are a brilliant teacher thanks a lot. Keep well. Al🤩🤩
I wish I watched you 10 years ago, 100k views this video is still so underrated.
Ricky makes the Guitar come alive in front of the beginners eyes. Unreal video lesson!
I've compared all of the videos on memorizing the keyboard. Your instruction technique is by far superior to any I've seen. Video quality is rough, but the most important thing is that this is the quickest way to learn the fretboard I've seen taught. 5 stars.
Yeah it was a live stream and there are limits to editing video on TH-cam. this video is on my list of reshoots. Glad you found it useful!
@@rickysguitar Subscribed. I started your binge list. I think all of your videos are very superb. I have learned so much more from your instruction than I have any that I have seen online in the last couple of years. Your fretboard video taught me the fretboard less than halfway through the video. the fact that you employ both traditional, and non-traditional teaching techniques together is awesome. Wish I were local, I would sign up for your school.
Thank You! You made it simple for this scotsman!
This is amazing. I can’t believe how much this helped are you serious?? I’ve always struggled and this makes me so excited to learn more!
Hi, I'm a beginner guitar player..I have been looking for ideas how to learn the notes on the fretboard.. your video has ' relieved my headache'.. thank you so much.
Ricky …… I have been playing long enough to know cowboy cords and I can tune my guitar but I have been lost because I don’t know the fret board but this lesson flipped the switch ! Thank you !
Great way to teach this... Back in the day (just after the invention of the guitar) I was so confused with "whole, half, whole, whole, half" pattern teaching. Great job sir!
Thank you so much for your thoughtfulness, your kindness and your generosity in sharing your knowledge :) this is the first of your videos I ever watch and I sure will watch more! I haven't even heard you play yet 😅 but if you have as much talent playing as you do teaching, I have no doubt it will be dazzling.
Thanks a bunch Ricky Comiskey, you have no idea how valuable this all is.
- I do realise I'm saying all this whilst giving you $5 I'm a bit ashamed.. - know though that your teaching is priceless 🙌🏼
Thank you thank you!
Thank you for your kind donation and for supporting my channel! I super appreciate it! 😊
No reason this shouldn't be the biggest guitar instruction channel on TH-cam. You tecniques out of the box and make more sense than any other instructor I have seen.
Brilliant! Absolutely! My former wife was an NLP teacher. Years later Now I get it! 😅🤚 Many-many Thanks 🙏
Jedi mind tricks!!!
I think I'm successful in subscribing , love your videos. 69years gone and still trying to play , No fool like an old fool !,
Great job Ricky. You make it fun and easy to get that "rush" from actually learning something. Looking forward to the next one.
Cheers Bill. Thanks for watching and commenting. I can't wait for the next one!
Ricky, I also have been playing by ear for years. In just minutes you have turned on the light bulb. thank you. You are brilliant.
I thought it was impossible coming into the musician world for the first time and this video really helped me learn the board. Also what really helps is getting out a paper and doing exactly what he draws on the white board
I get it FINALLY! I’m 57 and have been struggling for years to try to learn guitar that I would give up time after time. I am going to start watching your videos.
Many thanks Ricky. Your CHUNKS are actually making sense to me. I'm really enjoying your "down to earth" methods.
You just opened my eyes and the fretboard in 10 minutes. I have tried to learn this for over 10 years. Thank you so much. I can't believe it has been right there. Why does no one teach like this?
I like you’re teaching...
I’ve been playing for years but self taught....
I’m 71 and want to learn much more.....thanks for what you do.....
I’ll be watching....
Hello, from Oviedo Florida. I do like your method. Very clear and helpful. Thank you for teaching.
God smack (G) “I stand alone” chunk chunk. Thanks Ricky. Greatest teacher ever!
This lesson was so good I ordered your book, two thumbs up!
This video unlocked the fretboard for me, and I’ve been making money playing in bands for 30 years. Great video!
TH-cam please pull all other explanations of this. This man is the only one who has taught me.
Been playing 15 years or so, while I didn't learn anything new here. It definitely gave me a new perspective of the fretboard, and a better way of navigating it. It's such a simple thing but works wonders. Thanks.
I am 75 playing guitar since 15. Have been all at sea when it came to memorising notes on the fretboard.
Today's lesson was like me Saul, struck by a bright light.
Thanks Ricky for this revealation. I'm surely converted and on my way to becoming Paul.
God bless.
Lawrence Monteiro
Thanks for watching, Lawrence.
Exceptional lesson! I just memorized the G's and can find everything else now. Thank you & well done Ricky!
Ricky, Come over to this video from your 14/1/22 video. Glad I did as I found another excellent lesson regarding the fret board. Also this is the first time I've sat through a music lesson since searching for them on the internet Thanks.
Ricky...absolutely the best lesson for learning the fretboard on TH-cam. Honestly, I didn’t believe I could learn the fretboard in one day! But, after watching this video I understand the fretboard and have memorized the location of the chunks and notes individually! It worked!! This video, and your excellent teaching abilities, made things “click”. Thank you for your professionalism and unselfish willingness to help people understand and express ourselves through the guitar! I sent a lesson fee to your PayPal. Have a pint or two on me!
This is exciting for me. I played around on a guitar when I was 15 for about 3 years, with a few lessons. Now I am 68 and feeling drawn back to it again (middle age crisis HA). I have learned more in 26 minutes watching your video than I did in 3 years when I was younger. This all makes sense now by having a visual dry erase board showing the patterns. I can't wait to see your other videos and practicing with them. The visual image of the keyboard has made all the difference in the world. Thank you so much for doing these videos.
I kinda stumbled onto this by listening to what I was playing. A light came on and I began to play all over the key board. About freaked me out. Now I go all up and down the key board playing. But yet I still feel I'm in a rut. But practice makes perfect and leads you sometimes by accident into more things to play and more to learn and figure out. Thanks for sharing.. I got a long way to go. But for me prayer helps me the most. God is our best friend and He lacks no knowledge at all so PRAY and ask God to help you. Of course I am asking Him to help me play beautiful music that I know He would like and that I would like to and especially that it inspires people who hear to go the right way. Thanks!
Ricky love this explaination. It also means visually you can diagonally easily well fairly easily diagonally transpose to move across to identify the same note. So when your reading music you can play e.g. middle c and other notes (chord) up and down the guitar.
More practice!
It's a G! Never before have I been so involved in a TH-cam video. It's making sense for the first time. Only just started playing. BEST LESSON! Taught me so much . THANKS! I've subscribed.
I'm 73 and have been playing guitar on and off for a good deal of that time. I also play drums and bass in the church band. But I've had more "aha" moments in the past few weeks than in all that time!
Eyup Rick! Glad you found the channel!
You have an undeniable talent for teaching. You were meant for this. Thank you sincerely.
Ricky lad I have to say thanks!! I'm 54 and been dabbling with me guitar for 30 years, never learning the fretboard. I've learnt more in a couple of your videos than the previous 30 years worth of TH-cam, books and apps. You make things so clear it's great. I haven't made much progress for years through laziness and a dodgy finger but I've found a new lease of life with it all now since finding your channel. Do Cheers mate and keep up the fantastic work!!
🍻🤘😁🤘🍻
Hey Ricky, just bought your brilliant TH-cam book - thank you so VERY much for taking the time to compile all of your worksheets together - much appreciated! Watched this lesson again with the book, makes a huge difference. Love the chunking method. You are indeed an excellent teacher - your enthusiasm for teaching the guitar is plain for all to see. Many, many thanks!
Eyup Paul! Thank you for your kind words and support. I'm glad you're enjoying my book and videos. Loads more in the pipeline so keep a look out!
Wow, I finally found someone who teaches using a proper accent (I'm from Huddersfield too), and not only that, uses an overhead projector!!! You totally rock, and I am absolutely digging your theory lessons, really well explained 👍
Unbelievably easy to understand. Wish I'd had this 30 years ago!!! Thank you for this video, it all makes sense now.
Fantastic explanation. It makes so much more sense now. Thank you!!!!!
Wow, 25 years and I've never thought of it this way. Thank you!!
40 years for me lol....
Wow, this is the one that did it for me. I wish I had watched this week's ago. Thanks Ricky
Hello Ricky I've been having guitar lessons for around 7 months now which I really enjoy. Then I was given the twelve notes to learn with everything on it. I was really stuggling because my tuitor never explained which was the best way to do this. Then I've watch the last 2 videos about BEADGCF and learning the ABC DEF and G. All I can say is wow you've made my life a lot easier now. Thank you so much 👏👏
Cheers Andrea!
Tony 2 frets! and his SINGLE friend Semitone!......Best fretboard tool yet. Love it!
When you explain it suddenly seems really clear. Well done, thank you
Thanks I’m trying to navigate the fretboard for quite sometime
The Red Sea has parted... standing there is the shepherd of those lost amidst music theory and fretboard navigation... this Shepherd is Rick Comiskey... leading me out of the darkness and into the light of understanding... thank you for this video and its content...it is what I needed...great job!
Best use of chunking and patterns I've seen to explain this yet. So many guitar tutors want you to go through the same painful exercises they did. This is by far easier for anyone who learns by patterns (i.e. most people). Thank you!
I ADORE chunking! It makes so much sense instead of overwhelming your brain with too much information. I appreciate the kind comments Brian :)
thank you this is awesome. I'm calling them tones and semitones from now on!
I’ve been struggling with this for 30 plus years. This one works. Thanks a bunch.
The best memorization technique and note graphic that I have seen yet. I look forward to seeing more of your videos.
Good one brother,the quick sand was a great visual. Thank you.
Some excellent pointers of how to help memorize the guitar fret board notes. Notes B, C, and E, F without a space between (next to each other), and "loner"notes G,A,D with a space before and after. Of course spaces are where the Sharp's or Flat's go.
Very good. Just cleared my road block. Could not figure out the keys. I was counting from the neck and getting lost along the way. Was very frustrated. Most instructors just put their fingers fast all over the fret board and before you know it they are on the next key. Oh my God. So logical. Good job. You made my day.
I NEVER found an inspiring and motivating explanation of how to memorize the notes on the fretboard that I found easy enough to invest my time in.
But this is going to be the way for me. I'm going to do it and succeed !
Hello Ricky, Without looking at the comments previous to watching this lesson, half way through I said this is without doubt the absolute best method to start to learn the guitar fretboard, after watching the video I then looked at the comments, I wanted to leave one, I notice everyone else said the exact same thing, I notice you did not explain # and flats, but that's quite easy to get ones head around, your idea of the chunks method is definately the starting point, playing guitar for 40 years, and never learned the fretboard, maybe I'm too late, always wanted to play lead guitar be it country or rock, improvise with my own bits of nothings, sometimes sounding great, ask me repeat, forget it,
It's only now I'm realising not knowing the map of the fretboard is what was holding me back all along, I must check out your videos, once again excellent tutorial here, and I'm not surprised everyone on here loves your teaching, stay safe
This man is Genius. He makes stuff simple
Great lesson, I bought my first guitar yesterday for me 65th birthday. I am looking forward of learning it with you.
I’ve been looking at TH-cam videos on guitar for the last three months or so and I must say I get the most from your videos. I played when I was in school but only learned a few pentatonic shapes as well as the beginning of the caged system. Well done lad!
Superb - simple and just loved it
Hey Ricky, you highlight the notes so perfectly that even non guitarist can understand your method. You enligten things that are very to memorise. Another lessen which I will look over few times because I am not good at picking things so quickly. But I must admit I am having fun by just watching and slowly understanding things about the guitar. Many thanks.
Thanks a lot ,your video and a clear explanation of the fret board, string ,note,etc have help me learn the fret board etc,.
This is fantastic. ADHD has caused me to be bored to no end while trying to learn this. Showing the patterns that cross locked it in for me. Thank you!
The light bulb in my head just turned on!
Thank you Ricky
Yes, very well, very good teaching. I'm not even a guitar player but I am consuming your content. (My son IS a guitar player however)
I am a first time student never played before on a guitar but have learned to play a piano thank u lam enjoy learning the fret
The sound I hear when you move the camera up and down…. Full step or half step, I can’t decide!!! Thanks for video. Extremely helpful
I think I finally got it! Thank you so much! I've been playing guitar about 15 years and always been struggling with this... I've watched so many other videos which made me just more confused, but this was easy and simple (and actually very logical) way to memorize fretboard.
I have been looking for several years to understand the notes on the fretboard and literary in two videos you have made it so clear! Brilliant!
Thank you!
I ordered your book! I've playing for years with a muddled idea of things. I'm on lessons 5-7 and this online/book stuff is really clarifying my playing, and what is happening musically - conquer major, move on to its little sibling the minor, and beyond!
Yes, it really makes a lot of sense. You are great instructor. All the books out there don't simplify it, the way you did. Thank you.
I have epilepsy, which caused me to have memory issues, and in turn created problems for me with trying to remember the note locations on the fretboard. Recently, the desire to try again to learn has started a fire inside for me to push and learn to do what I want to do... play guitar. This video made me feel as if I found a key to a lock. Thank you. I subscribed.
Thank you!!! I’m 70, and I’ve had a stroke, but you really explain it for everyone.
If you've had a stroke. You might want to consider hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT for short). It may help you recover what you lost. Expensive but worth a try. Good luck.
awesome instructions ..I was thinking it was hopeless learning the notes on the fret board until I found this lesson .
this is a great way of explaining the fret board. Never seen it explained like this and it makes it so simple thank you Ricky
Awesome!!!!! I played for years; folk, and can honestly say I didn't start learning guitar until today. Thank you. Kate
Awesome teacher!! Definitely will be subscribing/rewatching.
Thanks, this is the first video that explained how to learn the notes on the fretboard to find the whole notes. The sharps and flats are easy after learning this. Too many guitar teachers really confuse us players that don't know where all of the notes are and really talk right over my head, since guys like me have played be ear for quit sometime, without learning these basics.
Thank you, Rickey! I really appreciate that you've made these available. I'm just starting out (
Tq from Malaysia.72yrs old pick up guitar only a year ago
Wow thanks Rick! suddenly after many years of playing badly, a light has come on and you're responsible. You made it fun, memorable and easy to understand.
Thanks Graham
Never could memorize the fretboard. Ricky's "chunks" are the light I needed in a dark room. Thank you Ricky, loved it!
Finally! I've watched so many of these fretboard memory lessons. This thinking in chucks is something my brain can grasp on to. Thank you.