This UNUSUAL Sentence Helped Me Find Guitar Notes INSTANTLY

How To INSTANTLY Learn The Guitar Notes.
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Great lesson

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Can't see any free PDF's. Did you remove them?

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Can’t find the pdf

[@OmnipotentO]

Maybe it's obvious to some but I was confused for a quick second. Rule 1 refers to the G and B STRINGS. Rule 2 refers to F and B NOTES.

[@rickysguitar]

Download the free PDF as that has the rules all written out

[@goldenglowladore3842]

Thanks.

[@keatonblackwell8494]

Hero.

[@sluggworth2154]

Yep

[@redshift54321]

Makes sense, I think there is a lot of context missing here before we get into the detail. It feel a little like explaining how electrons spin without explaining what a molecule is. I'm still not sure of the HOW or the WHY after watching this. I was lost when the highlighter came out, as in, what's the significance of this. Maybe I need to watch more of this series?

[@martynridley3671]

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[@TheWatchmen001]

I learned how to play as a kid, by ear. Then learned tabs later. Then started learning sheet music and such way later. My mother was a music teacher, and tried to teach me, but i just got confused. Something I've learned over the years now is, when you listen to great players like Eddie, Jimi, even SRV. The very seldom play a song the exact same way each time. I have several different recordings of Little Wing. Some by Jimi and some by SRV. They each played it differently from each other and differently in different recordings. The best advice i ever got from a guitar teacher, you can learn something someone else wrote and played. But, play it your own way as long as it sounds good. Make it your own. We all have different bodies. One may have longer fingers than another. One may be more flexible than another.

[@sked11]

i struggled watching a few fretboard videos but this one is starting to connect a few dots. thank you my friend

[@reecewoods2680]

Omg, this has literally blown the fretboard wide open for me. Finally a lesson that makes something like this easy rather than "just learn the notes" thanks so much for this

[@dont.tread187]

It makes sense and has me even more confused at the same time

[@rickysguitar]

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[@vraj247]

Love this way of learning. I wish I could get a teacher like this when I was starting. Great content and pacing. Keep up the good work.

[@NDFlyFisher]

I’ve watched your previous video on this and really found it useful. This one is better as it is short and to the point. I really had a light bulb moment with the perfect 4ths and major 3rd discussion and diagram. Thanks for a great video.

[@martinbailey7877]

Thanks Ricky. If i learn all the F notes then i have a set pattern to find all the B notes and then the mnemonic kicks in to find the others

[@AlphaxNinex]

Thanks I will use this!

[@drewcunningham2]

Finally a fantastic and relatively easy way to memorize the notes on the fretboard - I've been working on this for years - but with your little mnemonic device I've finally cracked the code - much appreciate !!! One of the most useful theory lessons I've ever watched on KZbin!!! Cheers from Canada!!!

[@georgehealy8350]

This is a brilliant way of teaching the fretboard. Thanks for sharing, it really resonated with me

[@fhidalgo]

Circle of fourths is magical !

[@bradmalinowski]

This is terrific. I'm using this with my guitar students and I actually made an assignment out of it where they have to fill in the information on a blank guitar fretboard.

[@rickysguitar]

Fantastic to hear Brad! This is only part of the story. I have a follow up/expansion of this idea that makes playing guitar so much easier in my live stream tomorrow at 7pm UK time. Well worth a watch if you want your mind blown!

[@wpinto60]

Thank you for the lesson!

[@geeairmo]

That was a fantastic demonstration of the fretboard! Thank you!!!

[@scooby22nz]

Battle Ends And Down Goes Charles Father (Flats) and reversed its Father Charles Goes Down And Ends Battle (Sharps)

[@G.T.01]

This is awesome man, thanks for pointing this out and explaining it really well!

[@chakakhan3751]

This is very helpful. Thanks

[@RavdeepSandhu]

This is actually very brilliant!

[@MasterMojo85]

What a great trick. Thank you very much!

[@hermancharlesserrano1489]

The shapes of quartal harmony jazz chords extended across the strings…nice!

[@rickysguitar]

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[@michaelsparks6084]

Love your teaching style Ricky! ❤

[@vviewerv915]

Great lesson! Much appreciated!

[@michaelratliff7775]

Watching this helped me understand the idea behind the b bender mechanism. Great video and saved for future reference! 😎

[@SixStringSlinger1]

Brilliant video! Thanks so much!

[@onikumo]

This is great! Thanks for the lesson!! Much appreciated!!!!

[@MyNamesHunter75]

this is so cool! also makes a lot of sense took me 2 watched and looking at the pdf to grasp it but makes it a lot easier will incorporate this in my practice to memorize the fret board

[@markplumb3968]

I learnt it a Charles Frederick years ago, to remember the # & b nice job of applying it to the guitar neck as well as adding “bead” 👏👏👏👏

[@dgperforms1]

Thanks Bro! I bought your Book quite awhile ago and it's awesome!

[@54fighting5]

Brilliant. Thank you!

[@brendajeannewyche2294]

I keep my guitars by my bedside. So when I wake up, I can see the fretboard right away & I can grab them to practice. Soon as I wake up, I look at a guitar & read off the notes on the 6th & 5th strings, to make it second nature memory ~ To let it sink in. Then, I close my eyes & think in my head, A String: 3 is C, 5 is D, 7 is E, 9 is F# & so on. Then I think about the E string & I go, “3 is G, 5 is A, 7 is B, 9 is C# & so on. I learned it in a couple of weeks. I only got overwhelmed when I tried to learn all the strings at on e. Then, I came across a teacher who said learning the 6th & 5th strings are the most important, because those two are where most blues, rock & pop are played. That was very encouraging. I’m proud to have learned the E & A strings this year, 2023. It was an important New Year’s resolution. ❤️😁

[@yurige7108]

very useful. Thank you so much 🙏

[@vacationrichard974]

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[@rickysguitar]

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[@caboosegorgees]

Really helpful and simple video. I’ve been struggling with finding notes and I think getting this ingrained into my head is going to help me massively

[@thunderace4588]

Thank you Ricky.

[@ksharpe10]

I learned the pattern back in the early 90's without the pneumonic. I believe the Holy Spirit gave me the enlightenment/Wisdom of this pattern. Ironically in all my earlier instruction books on Guitar, this pattern was never shown, from what I can remember in them. It seems it has not been in regular circulation til the 2000's, which is a long time considering the popularity of guitar. YOU Ricky have the best Beginner lesson's on KZbin by far. Wish I would have been able to have you book back in the early 70's.

[@rickysguitar]

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[@pubgkepapa2686]

Way too helpful thank you

[@ohreallycat]

Thanks

[@AshwiniViolet7]

Great explanation. It become very easy when you explained it like this. I remember notes on fret randomly, mainly pattern of C, D, E and F, G A but your explanation connected it all together. Thanks for it

[@1nfius948]

Thank you for this. I've been trying to memorise the fretboard I've already meorized the E and A string cause of bar chords and wanted to memorise the whole fretboard cause I want to learn how to improvise. This made memorizing the fretboard so much easier. Thank you

[@AndySalinger33]

Nice! Way to go, man!

[@mikestroud9969]

Thanks buddy awhile back I seen your video about grouping notes together to memorize the fretboard. It helped me out immensely 👍👋💯👊

[@roxifigi6629]

I bought your book! It is wonderful! You are the best guitar teacher on KZbin!

[@Adon4K]

Ohh now this is useful. Gonna commit that little mnemonic device ASAP! Highlighting the notes as you went was extra helpful. Thanks so much

[@emamag6455]

I wasn't actually into the previous videos about the fret board, but that's illuminating. Finally a mnemonic for guitar fret board!

[@richardengland5529]

Very useful video Ricky. I’ve also noticed that the frets for both E-strings follow the chromatic scale up the neck so you can identify the first note at any fret! You can then use that beadgcf.

[@coolwaterdvr]

Brilliant! 👍

[@almorgan3792]

O.M.G. you fixed my brain. This is brilliant! Thank you!

[@LedByGrace]

I think I got it but will watch again and practice. Thank you so much

[@TimboIsHimbo]

I’ve been learning guitar for a year. Last week while i was doing an arpeggio exercise, I used BEADGCF to remember all the notes i need to hit first for each arpeggio cycling backwards through the circle of fifths. Kindve neat getting recommended this after figuring out that pattern.

[@rickysguitar]

Your phone is listening to your thoughts…

[@anthonymoses5290]

Great video. I enjoyed it and learned from it.

[@kevinradecki4411]

Very well done! I've played from tabs but never learrned the notes. Son is taking lessons and I've asked him how he finds notes because it makes ZERO sense. This finally helped - thank you!!! To those saying you went too fast, I only had to rewind it once, so it was well laid out. Appreciate it.

[@michaelvmatthews193]

Ricky, Thankyou for this. I have been on a "Quest for Fire" for more years than I care to reveal and this is a gift of clarity and demystification I wish I had known or been told of many, many years ago. If people would spend 1/2 hour of effort to listen and understand this the reward is outstanding. I see people here expressing their self doubt about learning and comprehending what this all means to their playing. You're literally handing it out to everyone on a platter. I would hope that more players would put aside that doubt and realize that an hour or two with the guitar, your chart of the fretboard and some really fun exploration will enrich them with freedom on their instrument that will make them smile like they had won the lottery. This is really special, thankyou so much!!

[@philbrook6855]

Best video on locating notes quickly! Coming from a classical background where we drilled in sight-reading exercises, I wish I'd had known this before!

[@rickysguitar]

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[@prippropro]

This is just the 2nd video i've seen from you. Instantly subscribed.

[@tonytechquuo]

Thanks Ricky ..

[@seanbrown6904]

Learning about this for the first time on the day Charles got diagnosed with cancer is wild.

[@tom0ocadoo]

❤ Thank You

[@VLKV_loves_you]

wow. I’ve been playing for over 20 years and this is still super helpful. I ended up memorizing the fretboard by using a tone row where open E was zero to 11th fret as 11, was finally able to see the patterns you’ve illustrated here much more useful with notes for key signatures. Great lesson!

[@rickysguitar]

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[@1Samuel1524]

This is the first time in a long time I've been this excited about a book.

[@taborgreat]

Damn that’s sad to me

[@1Samuel1524]

@@taborgreat with the brain damage I have, I fall asleep within a couple minutes of reading no matter how interesting it may be. So I have just kinda put books in the category of useful but no longer for me.

[@ABArtandInfo]

Omg love you Rick for this. I am good with chords thats how i started learning guitar focusing on chords only as i try to sing with it. Then realised that knowing basics and leads will add that oomph to my songs. But i was so frustrated that i did not have patience to do exercises and was finding the way to learn the fret board. I was praying to the Universe please help me. Look what i found. Your video. You and Father Charles’ saved me. Thanks Rick. Gratitude🙏🏻🥰

[@rickysguitar]

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[@tsquared4831]

Thanks this video really spells the whole neck out.. thanks to you, before this video the neck looked like a traffic jam not any more

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[@wagonet]

😲 very helpful 😊

[@brooksduncan2438]

I love your videos, they are very helpful. I purchased your book several months ago on Amazon. Are you going to be publishing updates for people that already purchased the original version? Thanks!

[@mimetype]

Very good!

[@greenlantern3586]

Now I understand all of your lessons. Thank you master!😁

[@rickysguitar]

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[@wadeokaysguitar]

I’ve always been terrible at finding notes on the fretboard. 18+ years of playing guitar and still having “Aha!” moments.

[@emilwidegren2749]

+1

[@rickysguitar]

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[@shazamgod2240]

❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥thanks so much

[@littlesigh]

Best basic lesson I have ever seen since KZbin began!

[@rickysguitar]

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[@86larsonrd]

I like the story. Very us4ful.

[@barruzza]

Thanks for putting this together Rick! You can't be a good guitar player if you don't know where the notes are.

[@user-cw7kb7id4v]

For the first time I came to an understanding of how fretboard works??? this video is amazing. I’m surprised it’s free. I’m subscribing dude!! Only that, this gave me the big idea of the fretboard, but putting it into practice is another thing. If there are exercises that I can do on the guitar to put this in my muscle memory, that’d be a great follow up video :)

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[@namegoeshere2805]

Very cool.

[@bkmeahan]

for years people kept yammering at me about the circle of 5ths. I could see how it helped make sense of key signatures but just couldn't get it to make sense on the fretboard. Now I know why. My brain works in patterns and you are the only one who has ever explained the patterns in a way that makes sense.

[@rickysguitar]

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[@NFZ138]

See you Charles! That's proper!

[@davidbriggs9675]

Hi Ricky, I just watched this excellent video again without distractions. I 'get it', now. I'll make a chart and learn your method..even though I do actually know them. The namonic is very useful. Cheers

[@rickysguitar]

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[@adonikam1]

EXCELLENT EXCELLENT EXCELLENT VIDEO!! GLAD I FOUND YOUR CHANNEL I SUBSCRIBED! Now I just have to learn how to play.... 😊

[@christinesorrells31]

Dang! I think something just clicked! Book is in my cart!

[@timnicklin3242]

I could never understand why the "fb" pattern stopped working after the 10th fret. Thank you for explaining so that it makes sense to me.

[@johnnyrayborn]

Genius!! I get it!! Maybe because I have history of theory and understand the circle of 4ths & 5ths. It helped me a lot!!

[@rickysguitar]

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[@johnhallman7499]

OMG - I could never look at the fretboard and go "Oh, that's an A or an F#" outside of maybe first position. But what this video (and the cool accent) helped me realize is that music is math - it has patterns and I have never seen anything before like this - well done, sir. I now know where every E-F and B-C exists on the fretboard. And its A-D-G left... Nirvana

[@jamesrobinson4908]

Knowing the Circle of Fifths, I was instantly able to apply this technique to the 7th & 2nd frets but not at all to any others. HOWEVER, knowing the intervals (full/half steps between notes of the major scale in addition to what you just taught me might help me figure out some more of this (e.g. a note on any of the top 2 strings will be the same note two strings & two frets higher). The compensation you mention has to then be added to use that on the next two strings (D&G). Maybe that will help other people who can't grasp your approach.

[@sc3ku]

Be Ever Alert During Guitar Class…Forever! learned that from the jazz guitar journey site and finally had one that stuck

[@rickysguitar]

That’s a good one!!

[@karl1949]

awesomeness

[@giangiang]

Thank you Ricky, gawdam.. I actually visualized the licks I'm practicing. They all make sense now. One question, so this also apply when you play at a # or b major/minor key, right?

[@markntexas8265]

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[@vincentquy]

This is insane.

[@charliesautorepair2687]

AWESOME I GET IT A LOT THIS, I BOUGHT THE BOOK - MADE EASIER THANKS

[@rickysguitar]

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[@midevy]

You are the best... The most concise, genuine method with clear explanation I ever found to navigate the fretboard with confidence. It's amazing. For those who are confused about his rules, it's a vertical navigation trick from top to bottom following his mnemonic one after another within a cycle: R1) G to B = +1 refer to the 3rd to 2nd STRING move following the mnemonic R2) F to B = +1 refer to his mnemonic cycle to start over again R3) is the combination of R1 and R2 You are genius, I've learn something today. Thank you very much, may God bless you bro.

[@rickysguitar]

Thank you Midevy! You need these 2 videos to expand this into something even more magnificent! The Magic Guitar Fretboard Secret You Probably Don’t Know kzbin.info/www/bejne/goGznaehhLqJqtE And this This IDEA Connects EVERYTHING On The Fretboard kzbin.infoMBwpg4iYG3c

[@midevy]

@@rickysguitar I appreciate Ricky. Thanks a lot for sharing

[@LeonardoUlhoa]

🤯 it's so obvious now! Thanks a lot!!!

[@rickysguitar]

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[@DerektheGuitarist]

Awesome

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[@vacationrichard974]

Thanks for the lesson. Amazing. Also, I signed up for your newsletter to receive your PDF but I received no email. Perhaps I'm not the only one.

[@leefrank5332]

I entered a contest to win a free guitar, but then I heard that there might be some strings attached.

[@alidilsher2567]

Got confused but I will try again to understand it, now I need a small break ❤❤

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[@alidilsher2567]

@@rickysguitar yo, Thank You ❤️🕺🏻

[@davidtomkins4242]

Great way of learning the nurts

[@iLikeMyOwnPosts]

I've been playing for 5 years and still haven't memorized the nurts, so this video was very helpful in memorizing the nurts.

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[@richyglitched]

My adhd thanks you...

[@lenuhc]

Great video! Would olny recommend to move the left hand away from the nemonic!

[@rickysguitar]

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[@TonyRush]

I was a professional pianist for years but in the "Nashville" scene. That is, I don't read music but I'm well-versed in chords, circles of fifths and fourths and basic music theory. But, as a long-time pianist, the fretboard is so frustratingly stupid that it's caused a lot of frustration for me as someone who wants to learn to play guitar. Unfortunately, I can't say this video has helped me at all. I understand the relationship between the notes and I understand the mnemonic for remembering the sequence....but, honestly this is so illogical that I can't see much practical use for it. God, the fretboard is so stupid....

[@rickysguitar]

Ok. So the thing is you’re comparing a piano perspective to a new way of seeing how notes are laid out. You could think of the guitar as 6 staggered piano keyboards(think Jordan Rudess/Rick Wakeman). The BEADGCF mnemonic is essentially the white keys jumbled into a sequence of 4ths (B to F = #4). We find sharps/flats relative to the natural notes. I have another video that look in the linear pattern. When I look at a piano I always use the 3/2 black key pattern to find my way around. Because the fretboard is essentially uniform on each fret (apart from the position dots) we have to think in 2D like a chessboard. Have a watch of this video and see if you see things any clearer. kzbin.infobDZYmhIlS4A?si=n-Tz2AV6coePX-cc

[@mandolinic]

You'd be much happier with a mandolin. Tuned in perfect 5ths and the fretboard is 100% consistent and logical.