Where's the rest of your videos?

Clustering the natural notes in a pattern makes sense, as it is how the standard tuning works (5ths/4ths intervals except 2/3 string with open strings EADGBE). There are other ways to visualize this. There is a nice C pattern in open/12 fret, and also a P pattern. The L pattern has the advantage of presenting the circle of 5ths/4ths in its proper order BEADGCF ( it depends on which direction you choose to read really...). One thing is common in these patterns is the BC-EF box. These are special notes becuase they dont have artifial in between, and they are kind of beginning and end of the 2 note groups C-D-E and F-G-A-B as in the piano layout. I think focusing on the BC-EF box is key, and the way piano works where C is shaped like an L and E is shaped like inverted L, this is kind of way to signal a range as in mathematical notation [ ] . Same happens with F and B. Is an easy way to visualize the 12 notes in the chromatic scale, split by the natual keys with no artificial in between. This BC-EF box happens to be also in the vicinity of the 3/5/7/9/12 fret markers by no coincidence... you just need to be aware where the BC-EF box lands on each special marker B is in 12fret-2thstring 9fret-4th 7fret-6th and C is in 5fret/3th and 3fret-5th, so the markers are just there highlighting these special box

This is awesome and I think it also helps in seeing how the circle of fifths pattern is layed out on the fretboard. Thinking of your house in terms of vertical columns, starting with the right column gives F-C, then the left column gives G-D-A-E-B. This is in the same sequence as in the circle of Fifths, F-C-G-D-A-E-B. Amazing!

Memorizing from the low e string makes this doable just when I was about to give up

The easiest thing for me is just to remember BEAD GCF., and just to know that I shift the G to get BEADG and CF. I think mnemonics are HIGHLY overrated and people often allow them to become crutches.

That is very clever and easy to understand. Thank you.

Simple and to the point, great video and great find! Thank you, this will definitely help tons of people accelerate their journey. 🫡🙌

Great video - well explained and without useles fill-words and background stories! Also, a perfect score for pattern recognition, but i can't fathom how this would help memorize anything. Applying the pattern would take forever, and simply playing the scale all over the board, over and over again, until it comes into muscle memory, is unavoidable anyway, so... What exactly is the benefit, as opposed to having the fretboard printed out and looked up?

How impressive this is ! I highly recommend for those who appreciated this vid to go and see the work of Keith Martin on his channel "Fret Science", there's a lot of good tips to get there too !

This was the clearest and best explained way of finding the notes on the guitar fretboard I've seen with the simplest pattern (and pneumonics) to go with it. Thank you!

Awesome.

Cool!😎

I love cognitive simplicity. That is a sure sign of the truth without any bullshit. Thanks, I'm always looking for common sense mnemonics.

I’ll always look at the bright size of the fretboard,thks.

What a load of rubbish.Why is it rubbish? You are not learning the notes on each string, and your visualising it in that manner, also you have to remember two many blocks of notes and them remember to move them to the right even if the block does not fight you have to image they do. People can get confused in this regard. I just learn the notes on the fret board by note by note

If you know basic chords, the fretboard isn't hard lol. The things people will go through when it's easier to just learn the shit once and be done

BRO I LITERALLY CANNOT THANK YOU ENOUGH. THIS JUST MADE IT 100X EASIER TO MEMORIZE!!!

By the time you remember this the set is over.....

God gave you your creative imagination!

isnt it alot easier to just understand the order of 4ths and 5ths and how the guitar is tuned to them? shift one semitone at the end of the order + shift one semitone crossing the G-B strings to compensate for the M3 kink in the tuning. this works out to BEADGCF (b's & 4ths) and FCGDAEB (#'s & 5ths). an easy mnemonic to remember is battle ends and down goes charles father. Just a little more theory and a little less remembering shapes I think makes this much much easier.

You’re kidding right

After watching countless videos to learn fretboard, this video made me learn it so easily and the way you explain it is amaizing

Of all mnemonic systems I got aquainted with over last two months, this one is the most brilliant. Single and easy to memorize pattern, which covers whole fretboard - this is nothing short of spectacular. Thank you!

Thank you for sharing buddy.

this simplied learning so much,thank you

WTF did I just stumble upon??? This is a GEM OF A VIDEO, and I watch ALL of the guitar videos. How do you not have 500,000 subs? Mind blown. Thank you.

Nice video: Why not say “BEADG are in the Circle of 4th”? Perhaps because those who know the circle needn’t be told. And those who don’t know it will run away (the “Theory” terror).

Thank You

It sounds interesting. I will give a try. I thought maybe you can think the rule different. When you touch the B string, every note becames a flat note ( like the b of bemol). But it is just an idea. Thanks for sharing. I’l let you know if it goes for me.

Why reinvent the wheel, go learn the circle of fifths and map that onto your fretboard, 😎

Hey Toby: Nice graphics to emphasize your points. I remember BEAD (I wore them back in my hippie days) + GCF(=Greatest Common Factor, being a math guy) with variations of your 2 rules: (1) crossing over to the B string shifts 1 fret to the right and (2) whenever an F occurs that means the ...GCF has finished and we're about to start a BEAD...so also shift 1 fret to the right. Note that if the F finishes on a G string then the B note immediately following it will move 2 frets to the right (per my 2 aforementioned rules). Now that we're all confused by what I just said, your way will make more sense to your followers! 🙂

BEADGCF is the circle of fifths. Hmmm.

amazing nice u r a genius

Nice!

BEADGCF is also the circle of 4ths 🤯

Very good! Also very nicely animated! Great editing! Overall great job mate! Thank you

EXCELLENT! Guitarists who read standard notation and spell chords (I do) and already know the circles will find this indispensable. Open strings are a BASE from which to know EADGBE; and that helps to find F,Bb,Eb,Ab,C,F (fret 1) and F#,B,E,A,C#,F# (fret 2). This visualization aid finds BASES all around the fretboard from which to find notes (such as D,G). This is beyond finding individual notes: it is also about finding “neighbor” notes (A,D,D,G) Also, EF and BC are very special pairs of notes. Consider a C scale on the piano: White notes are separated by black notes except in 2 cases: E to F and B to C. You might not believe me if you aren’t compelled (as I am) to name notes and to spell chords. This visualization method will enhance such learning.

Mind-blowingly simple! Thanks for opening our eyes. Btw, you missed EFBC in the 1:40 starting from open strings :D

im sorry but...although i appreciate people trying to find cheats and tricks to make this extremely tedious task less frustrating....i gotta say, its all needlessly complicated. just learn a row per day (sharps and flats included). in 12 days you'll be done, you'll know it forever and you will navigate much easier and faster (without having to rely on landmark notes in order to find the one you need)

thanks

If you want to be 100% fluent on the fretboard, the only reliable way is to spend a lot of time simply hard-wiring each fret on each string to your muscle memory and brain. There must be zero logical steps between the note you hear in your head and the note you fret. Like on the keyboard, you don't figure out letters as per their position on the keyboard, and you're not thinking shapes, you're only thinking words and your hands do it in no time - that's exactly what you want to achieve on the fretboard. At the early stages of learning the fretboard, learning different fretboard concepts like in this video facilitates your way towards putting all the notes into your muscle memory, just like with the keyboard where you first try to figure out letter positions but then it goes away as the muscle memory strengthens.

Im only :42 in and im blown away already just buy the fret board diagram. A huge castle like door just blew wide open in my head. gonna be hard in what you say to top this diagram...Update: i was right, i understood, but didn't. Might have if you gave some fingering shots (pause)...

Truly a one off

Come on. How great I he? Leave his age out of this. He has always been the best and always will even when he’s gone

In my quest to learn the fretboard, I've watched countless videos. This is the best one, not only because it makes it easy to remember visually, but also assists in constructing chords (assuming one already knows how to voice basic chords). Much appreciated!

Interesting method!

Love rhis!

Like a great pirate once said... there BE no sharps...

More confused than before..m 😔

This is the best memorization technique I’ve come across. Short and easy to understand. Thanks dude