This Fretboard Memorization Exercise Will Drive you Crazy!

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Hey guys, in this lesson, I am going to show you a simple exercise that should help you with fret memorization.
I started playing guitar when I was a little kid. My first teacher was bad and he taught me the guitar for two years. Fortunately, after a couple of years, my dad took me a better one.
So, in my first lesson with him, he said, "Ok, you have been practicing for two years. Can you please play the note F starting from the low E string up to the top E string without skipping a string?"
It took me about twenty seconds to play all the Fs, and I was already sweating!
Now, he was a talented teacher! And, in one moment, he showed me two things:
First! I wasn't able to navigate the fretboard with confidence.
Second! Playing the same notes on adjacent strings gives you a pattern.
In this lesson, I am going to show you a simple exercise that will help you with fret memorization. We will be playing one note on each string with the metronome (no time to think).
This exercise can drive you crazy! After years of playing guitar, I am still messing notes up! However, it will help you a lot with fretboard navigation and fretboard knowledge.
Good luck guys.
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[@bogdanmusic5726]

I get so mad and frustrated when I try to record something cuz I do a lot of mistakes but seeing Marco failing I got kinda motivated...If Marco do mistakes I shouldn't expect to much from me

[@GoodishNews]

Really appreciate you showing yourself struggling. It something us noobs do all the time. Not sure if it's comforting or depressing to know relatively simple exercises can still trip you up.

[@mattlefler9854]

I remember back in 1984 when my guitar teacher made a mistake in my lesson. He made two within a couple minutes. It was actually helpful to know he made mistakes and was actually human on the guitar. I think it helps.

[@educostanzo]

I used this exact same exercise years ago and it is actually THE best fretboard memorization I've come across. A very cool variation I used to practice was playing a note on all strings and then jumping to its perfect 4th or perfect 5th. Play all strings again and jump to the next one. This reveals a lot of patterns on the fretboard and it's also perfect as ear training for the perfect intervals.

[@nobodyhome8637]

An easier way to memorize is to remember that the difference goes 7-5-7-4-5 going from low to high so take F= 1on Low E, 8 on A =7; 8 to 3 on D = 5; 3 to 10 on g = 7; 10 to 6 on B = 4; 6 to 1 on high e = 5 so whatever note you start on with the low e add 7 for the a string and so on with the 7-5-7-4-5 but if u start C and go high to low the pattern is 5-7-5-4-7 so c would be 8 on low e; 3 on a = 5: 3 to 10 on d = 7; 10 to 5 on g = 5; 5 to 1 on b = 4; 1 to 8 on high e = 7 just remember which pattern up or down depending on where u start and the next string will be correct low to high 7-5-7-4-5 or high to low 5-7-5-4-7 this may sound confusing but walk through it once and you will see

[@jameschuyang5606]

This is amazing!

[@theartfuldodger935]

An even easier way is to notice that the F is 1 from the start point of the lower section (nut) on the low E and 1 from the start point of the upper section (fret 7) on the A. Then you just continue going up 2 frets from the previous note in each section until you come to B which is 3 frets up. The high E is just the same as the low E.

[@telugumm5792]

Will u explain vividly, I'm confused

[@telugumm5792]

Will u explain it to me clearly, I didn't get it

[@ciasma_xavi]

@@telugumm5792 buy a guitar

[@ashwinrao82]

Nice lesson, an interesting variant is change the notes in 4ths or 5ths i.e. start on C and find all C's, then F, Bb, Eb and cycle all the way back to F. Or C, G, D, ..., C. Also, reverse the string order i.e. high E to low E.

[@stevewilson7915]

We'll done Marco. Great lesson. It's essential to know your fretboard. It's not as easy as it sounds. Nice to see that you are human, lol, your playing is magic to my ears. Thanks, Steve

[@davidsterba9917]

You are an excellent teacher Marco, and your courses available on Udemy are world-class; I know, I've bought 'em all ! - You've jumped a step on this (excellent) exercise perhaps? My rule is ... 1) find the note on low E string, then... 2) just count up 7 frets on the next string ie A; if you 'hit' the 12th fret and still have more counting to do, zing back to fret Zero (the nut) and carry on counting 3) from G to B strings, just count up 8 instead of the usual 7 frets 4) from B to high E, count 7 frets up Soon as that's all figured out, then I'm gonna do your exercise til I go crazy ! Wishing you continued success in your teaching and playing

[@jonathancamacho9770]

Marco, i greatly appreciate your genuine, frank and real tutorial... More power to you... Your great

[@jamesconnor5893]

You are a bloody Legend Marco We all love you down here in Australia Keep it comin’ and thank you heaps 🤙🏼

[@mac3201]

I really enjoyed this lesson and will add it to my practice. If you have more lessons like this that would be great. Thanks

[@sagnikpattanayak1713]

I loved the fact that you showed your mistakes openly and didn't edited them out.fantastic lessons..keep em coming ❤

[@audior011]

Playing guitar for 4 months and will start memorizing the fretboard because it's important to know which notes i'm playing. Thank you for this.

[@jasonsworld333]

Hows the guitar coming along?

[@ankurarora1644]

Amazing, this is awesome, i was looking for something like this..thank you for sharing!

[@Rectitude4U]

I’d recommend CAGED. I struggled with all kinds of “tricks” until I finally revisited CAGED. Then I was able to see notes all over the fretboard without memorizing.

[@michaeltritter2743]

Dude, I'm using this exercise having seen it somewhere else about 2 weeks ago. It is the best method I've come across. Such a fantastic daily still drill. Totally recommended.

[@rekhachoudhury2723]

The way to memorise the fretboard you teached is one the easiest. Beginners will be definitely benefited. You made the video in such an interesting way. Really enjoyed. Reminded how we sometimes fumbled in front of our strict teachers in our childhood. You are an ideal teacher and inspire us to play our best.

[@jimmccall8030]

This a great system. Thank you !

[@James-Smith1922]

This is genius i learned how to memories notes and i learned the F note

[@joekyleboston]

Marco. Thank you so much. This totally helps me. Very grateful.

[@raquelrangel3833]

I love this lesson muchas gracias!!! Greetings from México

[@souravmukherjee2858]

awesome lesson .. thanks Marco 🤘👍👍

[@Agustinelmoro]

You are awesome. This is a great exercise!

[@talkabout2892]

Great lesson Marco... Thank you sir.

[@ronniecraft3895]

i love that thought pause , 5 stars on that alone !!!!! this was a great lesson too !!!!!

[@him91360]

Well done - good lesson - also showing the level of difficulty even for someone such as yourself. Thanks

[@jimtessin4130]

Excellent!!!! Thank you!!!!

[@redmed10]

Love this exercise. So many videos are titled how to learn the fretboard and all they do is show you how to identify notes on a particular string by talking about intervals. In the end it comes down to repetition so that your hand does it automatically in a split second. Learners don't get intimated. Essentially it's 120 note positions. Most people can do it quite easily but like everything it takes work and practice. The more you work and practice the quicker you will get there. Always bear in mind the brain is a learning machine. I think it actually learns better from mistakes than when you get it right so never be afraid to make mistakes. You are training your ear and your eyes as you are going along.

[@zarcero21]

Brilliant!

[@ramv1564]

Excellent idea.

[@chrismendoza6115]

Thank you sir!

[@martinsihombing6925]

Nice lesson

[@yudipitre5720]

Great exercise thank you

[@eldigitom9680]

I love that‼

[@sujayanarula3913]

This is exactly the method i came up with couple of months ago after trying different ones, also it helps to remember notes with fret numbers like G3, G8, G10, A5, A2 etc 😊👏🏼

[@rahulrajan1391]

This is a lesson i want ..so much helpfull

[@artg7909]

Great technique.

[@tanmoysarkar9375]

Love your channel...

[@bntaft5133]

Thanks Marco. Maranatha!

[@martinwhite2020]

Important to navigate the fretboard. Thanks.

[@ghassenlaamouri8410]

going up fret+7 going down fret-5 (exception when u cross the b string)

[@ra.z9885]

Hi marco thank you for helping us learn a lot of scales by different pieces you’re the best. And please if can make a tutorial how to play milonga by jorge cardoso it’s will be awesome ♥️

[@Isosceles1]

Like practicing anything in music, slow it down to where you can hit all the notes then gradually increase speed.

[@szakeee]

It is a great exercise! I've learned in the same way the notes on the fretboard but also moved from the high E to the low E string - in this video you just go from low E to high E. Also, I've changed the note when I turned back from high E to low. If you are using metronome and keep drilling this exercise, you are going to memorize the notes on the fretboard, guaranteed!

[@michaeltritter2743]

Yup, up and down is the variant I use too.

[@hemgurung9801]

wow excellent

[@jussi-pekkalaakko8768]

Even the guitarmaster does mistake,its kinda soothing. Thank you for helpfull videos!

[@ocs1986]

Similar to another one I found earlier, but you break the neck into 2 sections. No matter what anyone comes up with,, it all boils down to repetition until you know the notes. Much as we would love to have a simple (no work) method to learn the neck of the guitar, it's usually going to take a fair bit of work to finally get it under your fingers. Well worth the time though because knowing the neck of your guitar opens so many doors.

[@millions2nette]

EXCELLENT! method!

[@kiraclipstn8]

u are awsome

[@jaygayon8763]

Salute =)

[@alva72nashir3]

upper st to down string 7 frets down..5 frets up ..uxcept st G to st B.. 8 frets down .. 4 frets up

[@abdulanshoriy7488]

Thank's

[@Pariko225]

It’s nice of you to show us you failing. I’m not surprised that it’s so hard for me. Thanks 🙏

[@ciscarpanti]

Like from Brazil

[@SfikakisStylianos]

Nice Guitar! may i ask what brand is ?

[@amanmallick5801]

Make a video on finger exercise plz...

[@maciejkaseja1056]

Thanks Marco. Some notes are more important than others I presume. Give us the list of these. This will be a good starting point, no ?

[@MarcoCirillo]

Just start with natural notes before moving to sharp and flat :)

[@dingopes3847]

Playing scales all around freetbord from root to root..Ocatave root notes is how i learn to SEE it. if u can Not see it u can not play it at least in time. My opinion For beginers : learn slowly 5 position of minor pentatonic.always learn with metronome when sliding from one position to another..Maybe in the begining isnt very musicaly but having fun learning playing..pentatonic diatonic scales u will open doors to music..just my 2 cents

[@playthechords3640]

This is the easier way to remember to memorize the fretboard as a beginner who just learning guitar for about 50 days. I figure out each note in same string first then same notes in different strings after all I start to use metronome for A, B and go on at 60 bpm and increase everyday, now just about 20 days I can play any different note in 6 strings at 95 bpm. BUT the only problem is if you point out any note in fretboard I still can't say it out in 1 sec

[@kenich2611]

I remember all notes E and A strings and I use octaves to find rest and sometimes I use scales to find notes but I guess it's not efficient at all.

[@grimreaper-qh2zn]

Very good Marco but I have a question. It is a question I seem to have to ask with all the videos about "Memorizing" the fretboard. To say I have memorized it, then if someone says, for example String 4 (D string) fret 8 I must respond immediately A# (or Bb). I can't. If someone said "Find all the A#'s" I could use the system . If I am on the D string fret 8 I can use the system to find A# on the 5th and 3rd strings quite easily, but if I am on the D string 8th fret and I want to find say the closest F# I can't. So I will not have memorized the fretboard. What I have done will to have learned another method how to negotiate the Fretboard.

[@abhiseksarkar3122]

❤️❤️

[@danielfenna-moran21]

I'm sure he's faking the mistakes tbh 😅 although, I still appreciate it as it does show the reality of learning guitar. Also can't wait to try this! I've been playing almost 5 years now only really learning from tabs. I'm deciding to start to learn music theory but I now know how essential it is to know the notes of the fretboard off by heart

[@PIANOSTYLE100]

I just tried this did..really poor at first now it's aghhh .still not great. I did realize something that I should of noticed years ago. The first dot after the two dots is the same as the first dot at the headstock. Good to know only took like 50 years

[@carlotapuig]

Thanks to this video I discovered a grey area for me in the 4th string. It looks like I know around 75% of the notes of the first 12 frets immediately or very fast. I was surprised I had no idea where the F was in the 4th string.

[@suiseiuchuno7381]

Oo

[@guitarkart]

Lovely... There are 100s of ways in which you can memorize the fretboard. This concept is certainly in my Top 5s.

[@tylerjdavis]

Whats ur other 4

[@KannadaGuitar]

Curious to know other 4😋😋😋

[@redstrat1234]

Say the note names out loud to reinforce

[@CesarDMarin]

even guitar gods make mistakes. thank you so much.. it expands of the exercise I was taught earlier in my guitar life

[@simonyang109]

this troubles me for a long time :)

[@giglehart]

😂 that look

[@markdenzilfinnerty6453]

Marco, was your crappy teacher good at finding the notes on the fretboard? We all learn from our mistakes. I too started playing the guitar, from the age of ten. All my guitar playing , comes by just listening to the music and picking out the keynotes. Thanks .

[@amgkv2.025]

I like seeing that failing is going to be something very prominent lol

[@lastdayonearth67]

3:12 turn captions on. Weed.??!!! 🤔🤔😂

[@harrykuheim6107]

This is why I love TAB...just show me where the note is at... and I'll take care of the timing using my ear.

[@yahuchanonyakov]

E #? Well, actually I guess F could be viewed as being an E#

[@MarcoCirillo]

I know. You are right. But in that part of the video I was mimicking me at age 12 and back then I thought there wasn’t such thing as E# hehe.

[@lisavento7474]

ah....OK...there is NO getting around MEMORIZATION PRACTICE< no grids, no patterns to look for other than dividing it in those 2 sections. Good exercises but thought i was gonna get a miracle clue.

[@ATNaga24]

👌❤️Sir, can I please get ur email.. Can u give away certificate, I wanna take online guitar class.

[@educostanzo]

Check the video description mate.

[@prince5922]

non of these matter, what matters if you can play the guitar

[@krownofficial6246]

Develop an understanding and comprehension or what you play has no purpose. It's all matter. Be more than mediocre

[@PIANOSTYLE100]

I've played the guitar for 10s of thousands of hours.. Many different styles. I have only watched 1/2 of the video. I am going to try it cold..In my head I know it will be an amazing performance. NOT SO.. Point is well taken. I am totally cheating. I already did this partially mentally.. There will only be 22 Frets on the average guitar . My strat copy has only 22. I had a duh momrnt.. I already know that my E string Electric only has does not have 24 frets.(2 octaves..24 semi tones) Electrics have only 22 Frets..Your mentor picked the hardest note. But actually one the best notes too. A LITTLE THOUGHT .This actually is very eye opening. The A string the same. It would need 24 frets.. D to D same.. Pretty much note than 2 octaves on any string on a 22 fret guitar. So I mentally cut to the chase.. The middle of the octave is 3 full tones or the tritone or the flatted fifth I'll do this in the key of C first.. Whole tones ... C to D D to E E to Gb. G is the five chord of C. Gb- Ab Ab-Bb Bb-C. We just proved that the tritone splits the octave. So in just about a minute..I see that s 22 string guitar has no three octave notes. Looking at 22 notes or semitones on a piano is 12 plus about 9frets. I don't think it is possible to have any note repeated more thantimed on a string. So 12times would be the max and it will be equal or lower than that.

[@mikeeslk]

If this lesson is supposed be for beginners i haven't a clue of what your supposed to be talking about. There are so many other ways of learning the Fret Board. And i wouldn't advise anyone to even start trying to understand what he is trying to teach you. So many easier ways. But if you are comfortable with him please by all means stay with him.

[@MarcoCirillo]

Well said. There are a lot of different ways to memorise the fretboard. This is just one of them.

[@yahuchanonyakov]

I have learned more from Marco than any other guitar instructor I have ever corresponded with....

[@MarcoCirillo]

Tnx buddy :)

[@AsifMehedi]

I wouldn't advise anyone to pay even the slightest attention to michael hunwix. This is a drill -- and the harder the drill the more learning you get out of it.

[@MsDenver2]

As soon as you use a metronome you loose me I cannot stand the metronome, hate hate hate it , but I know you mean well and I’m sure your a nice person

[@mcrstudio8418]

After 20 years you can't play how the hell we 2 years old beginners can play this 😂