This short article will highlight how you can make learning the guitar notes on the fretboard easy Although a guitar with 24 frets

will have 288 different note locations to consider there are really simple ways to to make it simpler to memorize all the notes about the fretboard.

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First of all we are able to cut the number of positions that need to be remembered in half since the guitar fretboard repeats following the 12th fret

(the very first 12 frets are an octave, the next 12 are the octave above it). The notes appear in the exact same order from the 12th to the 24th fret as

they are doing from the 1st to the 12th. This means nowadays there are only 144 note locations to remember.



In total there are 12 different notes in western music, they are: C, C#/Db, D, D#/Eb, E, F, F#/Gb, G, G#/, A, A#/Bb and B. As you can see the #’s and b’s

(sharps and flats) lie between the notes C and D, D and E, F and G, G along with a, A and B. So we can now cut the number of notes we need to learn right down to just

42 because we'll automatically see the sharps and flats appear between the other notes once we’ve memorized the positions of C, D, E, F, G along with a.

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Now find an image of all the notes about the fretboard (you can find one in the free e-book that you will get when you join the Guitar Theory Revolution newsletter)

and find the universal note pattern that every note follows. Between the 1st and 12th fret each note appears once on each of the six strings.

For the start of the pattern to be the notes appearing about the low and high E string then you’ll see the pattern repeat again and again for each note.



Learning this note pattern has become the quickest way to learn all the notes on the guitar fretboard, although there are others. For instance if you know

the circle of fifths and fourths then you’ll easily be able to find all the notes since the strings on the guitar are tuned in fifths. The circle of

fourths and fifths is going to be covered in future articles and lessons.



When i mentioned earlier it is best to focus on the notes C, D, E, F, G, A and B first because that way you’ll automatically start seeing the sharps and

flats between them. In addition you should always sing the notes that you are playing in order to enhance your ability to recognize notes by ear.



Finally make sure you learn the locations of the notes without reference to other notes. Although it’s helpful in the beginning it’s not good to maintain doing

this because it will slow you down because you’ll always be checking where other notes are before you can find the one you really want. To memorize all

the notes within the proper way check out the exercises within the free e-book How To Learn All of the Notes On The Guitar Fretboard which you can download when

you sign up for the Guitar Theory Revolution newsletter.

Learning guitar notes