Play This GAME, Learn the ENTIRE Fretboard! (proven method)
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- -Play This GAME, Learn the ENTIRE Fretboard! (proven method)
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Hey, Mike! I comment a lot on your videos, but I was actually talking to my family about guitar since I went home for the holidays, and I realized in the way I was describing you, you really were my guitar teacher. You still totally are. I’ve learnt more from you than anyone, and I just want to say thanks for helping me so much over the last two years. I literally could not make the strings ring in October of 2022, I had not an iota of musical experience, started super late in life, and you’ve gotten me way past my dreams of just being halfway competent.
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I use this method with my students, works like a champ. Thanks, Mike! 🤘
Having learnt the melody of “Ode to joy” starting on the open top E string, I have used this idea to learn to play it from any of the E’s on the fretboard. Should work with any simple melody.
As an experienced (I didn't say good) player, I thought I was pretty adept on identifying the fretboard. By putting the metronome in play, I found I'm not nearly as smart as I thought. Nice exercise Mike. This "fretboard game" should improve folks' skills. Thanks for sharing.
Excellent video! I've been trying to memorize the fretboard. I'm going to practice this weekend on my Ibanez 🎸
I’ve always played a Telecaster and a week ago I just impulsively bought a Gibson SG Standard and I just can’t believe how great it plays and sounds. My first Gibson ever.
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This. This is it, Mike.
I've been doing this exercise and others like it for a bit. What I found pretty quickly is that when I'm going up and down with one note, I'm subtracting or adding 5 frets from the previous note, or 4 frets for the second string. That is, I'm finding the next note relative to the one I just played rather than relative to the rest of the string.
I don't know if that helped me learn or slowed down my learning, but that was just how my brain performed the exercise.
Love your videos and you have continued to inspire me to keep playing guitar
Mike, it would be more beneficial to point out the relative locations of the notes, so people can start using interval in relationship at its most basic to start filling in gaps as you discuss thirds, fifths, sixths, etc.
For sure, after getting this game down I begin to section off zones of the neck which allows you to see all the intervals and how they either lead or are already part of the following chord as you flow. I once had a student play an A7 arpeggio. The next chord was Em. He panicked and thought he messed up because he stayed on the G note. I was like, actually..... haha.
Thanks Mike!
Did you make a similar video to this one many many years ago?
For some reason i remember seeing you do something similar to this exercise before.
This is the "boring" stuff that makes a big difference as you play
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this is the most adhd friendly way to learn the fretboard!
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What is the point? Why do I need to know where these notes placed? Do you really use notes instead of steps?
What's the point of learning the notes of the fretboard?
@@TheArtofGuitar yes. "Why do I need to know where these notes placed?" = "What's the point of learning the notes of the fretboard?"
@@rustee_nyfe its kind of a silly question. if you're wanting to learn the guitar why WOULDN'T you want to know where the notes are?
@@rustee_nyfe Guitar is a skill that’s built equally on memory and ability. There’s a heavy element that lies in your familiarity with playing the instrument, and a ton of players do exclusively play by feel, but even Ace Frehley, who is famously untrained in music, can call out which notes he’s playing where, mentally remember how the notes shift if he tunes from E to Eb or D etc., and comment on which of his chords are major, minor, fifth, or suspended.
Feel is a huge part of playing an instrument, but feel is also only half of playing an instrument. It vastly enhances how quickly you can improve if you study the theory behind music and make a mental map of the fretboard, because there’s no confusion. You know that if you’re playing in C#m, then you can almost always play an A, B, C#, D#, E, F#, or G# when you’re looking for a note. If you’re in standard tuning, you know the A is available on 6th string 5th fret, 5th string open, 4th string 7th fret, 3rd string 2nd fret, 2nd string 10th fret, 1st string 5th fret, 5th string 12th fret, and then the notes repeat. Once you think about this enough, use this enough, and make it sort of second nature, it becomes easy to not only construct lead parts, but probably more underlooked is the skill to make your own chords. Knowing a key and the notes in the key can help you really get outside the box with constructing weird or complicated sounds.
All learned musicians know ‘steps’, but if you say to a pianist, “Play the seventeenth step”, that doesn’t mean anything. Even to a guitarist, ‘play the fifth string up seven frets’ is much less ergonomic than “Play E4” (which is just the open high E, or 2nd string 5th fret, etc., for reference). A lot of players also have preferences for positions on the fretboard based on how strings sound and their personal style. You can play a descending C#m scale starting on the 1st string 2nd fret, or the 2nd string 7th fret, or the 3rd string 11th fret, or whatever. Playing in the open position gives you open notes, which are useful for some licks. Playing all the way at the 11th fret gives you easy access to really high notes.
Sorry if I botched any of those words, by the way. I might be wrong about that explicitly being a descending C# minor scale (it might be F# minor), but that’s why you learn the notes! Once I understand a little more, I’ll be able to say for certain if that’s C# minor or F# minor, and then I’ll be able to better know where to use those scales when improvising.
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Been playing 44 years. I still don’t get it. Never will.
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Funny….i look down at the notes and they’re begging me not to play them
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What kind of metronome is that? The noise is actually not so grating.