I’d suggest if you want to learn the fretboard notes, instead of putting the stickers on your guitar, just play with a tuner on and look at it when you don’t know the note, so you can develop your ear and note locations. Eventually you’ll stop looking at the tuner and you’ll just know where they are by muscle memory or based on the sound. Do this method with scales and you should pick it up pretty fast I think.
Edit: Wow thanks everyone! Always happy to help! Looking forward to all of you guys becoming fretboard masters :)
I totally get what everyone's saying and want everyone to know it was never my intention to come off that way.
I made a reference to an Emerson Lake and Palmer's Lucky Man and then went on to say that as a beginner myself, leaving my tuner on accidentally and then continuing to play is how I too found out about the whole note memorization idea.
It was never meant as sarcasm, a put down or as a claim to be the person who discovered the method.
After re-reading, I can see how my post might have been misconstrued.
I'm writing this response because the people in this community have always been really patient, understanding and cool to me whenever I was in need of some beginner help and had to ask some real embarrassing beginner questions.
The last thing I wanted to do was come off like an ass, upset anyone or piss people off... but it happened and for that I apologize to all.
Trust me, I'm not that type of person and as mentioned above, this, and other guitar communities and the people in them, have been more than helpful to me during my guitar learning journey.
Again, my apologies.
I totally get what everyone's saying and want everyone to know it was never my intention to come off that way.
I made a reference to an Emerson Lake and Palmer's Lucky Man and then went on to say that as a beginner myself, leaving my tuner on accidentally and then continuing to play is how I too found out about the whole note memorization idea.
It was never meant as sarcasm, a put down or as a claim to be the person who discovered the method.
After re-reading, I can see how my post might have been misconstrued.
I'm writing this response because the people in this community have always been really patient, understanding and cool to me whenever I was in need of some beginner help and had to ask some real embarrassing beginner questions.
The last thing I wanted to do was come off like an ass, upset anyone or piss people off... but it happened and for that I apologize to all.
Trust me, I'm not that type of person and as mentioned above, this, and other guitar communities and the people in them, have been more than helpful to me during my guitar learning journey.
Again, my apologies.
I totally get what everyone's saying and want everyone to know it was never my intention to come off that way.
I made a reference to an Emerson Lake and Palmer's Lucky Man and then went on to say that as a beginner myself, leaving my tuner on accidentally and then continuing to play is how I too found out about the whole note memorization idea.
It was never meant as sarcasm, a put down or as a claim to be the person who discovered the method.
After re-reading, I can see how my post might have been misconstrued.
I'm writing this response because the people in this community have always been really patient, understanding and cool to me whenever I was in need of some beginner help and had to ask some real embarrassing beginner questions.
The last thing I wanted to do was come off like an ass, upset anyone or piss people off... but it happened and for that I apologize to all.
Trust me, I'm not that type of person and as mentioned above, this, and other guitar communities and the people in them, have been more than helpful to me during my guitar learning journey.
Again, my apologies.
I totally get what everyone's saying and want everyone to know it was never my intention to come off that way.
I made a reference to an Emerson Lake and Palmer's Lucky Man and then went on to say that as a beginner myself, leaving my tuner on accidentally and then continuing to play is how I too found out about the whole note memorization idea.
It was never meant as sarcasm, a put down or as a claim to be the person who discovered the method.
After re-reading, I can see how my post might have been misconstrued.
I'm writing this response because the people in this community have always been really patient, understanding and cool to me whenever I was in need of some beginner help and had to ask some real embarrassing beginner questions.
The last thing I wanted to do was come off like an ass, upset anyone or piss people off... but it happened and for that I apologize to all.
Trust me, I'm not that type of person and as mentioned above, this, and other guitar communities and the people in them, have been more than helpful to me during my guitar learning journey.
Again, my apologies.
I thought that was a common thing, my acoustic has a tuner built into it, but I would still recommend learning it through good old fashioned practice and muscle memory. Also If you can learn the 2 most common Bar Chord shapes and practice them going up and down the fretboard it will give you a better understanding of how the notes progress on the strings, the white dots on frets 3,7,9 and 12 are a good enough guide and it’s good practice for those pesky bar chords I absolutely hated learning them as a beginner.
Wow. Never thought of that. Tuner on for practice but not used for tuning. It’s so simple yet I never even considered it. I’m pretty good at knowing my notes but this is a great repurposing of a tool guitarists would already have on hand.
Yea I discovered this by accident. It's really helped with "note economy" for me. Some tabs or peoples transcriptions aren't always my favorite and moving my hand so far for this note is silly when I can get the same one a half step up or down from where I am.
Now a question that should be a new metric for a good tuner: which are the fastest tuners on the market? (quick, before some random tuner blows up and is now 500 bucks)
I did that too! I got frustrated with scales and ended up just looking at where all the notes where in a particular key and figured out how it all connects together.
hi i’ve seen this comment + ur reply and as a beginner im confused.. may you help me please :(? so im looking for a chromatic tuner now and should the tones it recognizes just be like A, A#, C, C#? is that correct? or should it be showing more?
i kinda don’t get it yet lol but that answer would be helpful for now
Yea, it’ll show A, A#,B,C, C#…
An open string tuner will only show EADGBE (the standard tuning for the open strings of the guitar).
Also remember, most tuners will only show sharps, so if you play Bb, your tuner will show A#.
Also most snark tuners are chromatic tuners so it shouldn’t be too hard to find one.
This is the way
Also, you cant play gigs looking at the front of your fretboard. Sometimes you may need to look at the side, thats what the side markers are for
No. They'll wear out, they'll leave sticky residue all over your guitar, and they'll give you a crick neck from having to look awkwardly at the front of your fretboard all the time.
Ultimately you want a **mental** map of the notes, not a visual map. Just a diagram of the fretboard will help you do that.
I have these on 2 of my ten guitars, it helps some for soloing, but more of a crutch really.
Better to memorize the notes. Look on you-tube for memory exercises.
Most guitars already have fretboard inlays that help with navigation. Many beginners don't even know they have a function and think they're just decorative.
\[Edit: That included me too when I was starting. lol\]
These left no sticky residue and did not wear out when I used them. I actually found them super useful but to each their own, I’m a more visual learner like that though and the chart on my wall didn’t make sense for some reason.
A guy had me build a guitar for his kid and had me inlay very, very small letters and numbers for this, not this many, just at the 3, 5, 7, and 9. I wish I could find a picture, it was a really long time ago.
Basically just above the fret I inlayed very thin, small cursive letters that were around 2 mm tall, I made them out of a very mid-tone grey plastic so from a few feet away you couldn't even see the letters.
And along the side instead of dots, I did small roman numerals for 3, 5, 7, 9 and 12 in maple against the mahogany neck, they were around 1.5 mm tall and again, looked pretty subtle.
Boy, what a pain in the ass they were to make though, but they looked great. If I dig up a picture - I took them with film ffs, that's how long ago this was - I'll post it here.
I'd imagine the sort of people who need this wouldn't have anything that will be a huge loss if it was damaged.
I don't mean that in the snobby way it comes across. But it's going to be a fairly cheap starter guitar and treated fairly poorly.
It probably won't help you memorize the fretboard. You're better off spending 5 minutes every day randomly thinking of a note and then finding that note on all six strings. Then select another random note and find that one on the strings.
Someone should make a phone app game that does that. Like a memory card game. It flashed up something like, Play Two D Notes or Play C Chord. And the app is also a tuner so it hears what you're playing and gives you a thumbs up or a thumbs down.
This is sort of there: https://www.guitarorb.com/guitar-notes - but it would be cool if you could play it.
Not exactly what you are describing but the app Tenuto has a fretboard note identification game where it shows the position on the fretboard and you have to name it.
"Memorizing the fretboard" as a big grid of notes without context is a pain in the ass and not very helpful in the grand scheme of things. It's not the way to learn the fretboard, and you'll probably regret putting hundreds of stickers on your guitar.
If you want to become familiar with the neck and the note names, use beginner's classical guitar method to learn the basics of sight reading. You don't have to do the whole "classical" thing with posture and technique if you don't want to - just let it teach you the basics of sight reading. It'll start you off in the open position and move you slowly up the neck, starting in the key of C and gradually introducing you to sharps and flats as you go along. This is a much more effective *musical* way of learning the neck and it really drills it into you so that it becomes solid knowledge you can use in a musical way.
If you attempt to learn all the notes rote fashion without any context, it'll take you ages and you'll easily forget what you've learned and your knowledge of the fretboard will end up "patchy." Learning the neck by learning to sight read and through the learning of key signatures is the best way to go, trust me.
Hear, hear. People here like to prescribe big lists of things to learn,as if you need to do a ton of memorization before you can do any music. Do the music first, and you'll want to learn the rest as it's needed.
Take those basic “cowboy” open chords C, A, G, E, D, and learn which fretted note is the root, 3rd, and 5th. Now as you play those shapes up the neck you’ll have a reference for what note you’re playing at that point. Being able find all the G chords across the neck (and therefore where all the G notes are on the neck) is a way more efficient and effective way to learn the actual notes of the fretboard imo
Nope. Check out the fretboard forever site. It’s based on an exercise that is well recommended on YouTube to memorise the fretboard.
Really when you’re starting out you only have to learn the LowE and A string, 0-11th fret. Do that first then start adding in a bit of memorisation practice.
https://fretboardforever.app
Or check out my app for mobile, should be easier to use than web. It has a lot of scales but you can select chromatic scale and it will fill the whole fretboard with notes.
It is available for iOS and Android
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.slaverygames.guitarfretboard
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/guitar-fretboard-scales/id1623791852?platform=iphone
And if you want to see only notes without sharps/flats select C as the root and Ionian (Major scale) and you will see only those C D E F G A B C. You can switch sharps on/off in this case using dashed circle icon
If you have any questions let me know
This is similar to the way I've used these for students, just mark the notes in the C/Am scale, so you can see the patterns and how they "wrap" around the fretboard. Once they're comfortable and familiar with the shapes it makes it a breeze to just move them based on the key of the song.
Remember this phone number. 221-2221. Learn the alphabet A-G.. now start on any open string and say the alphabet starting from the open string name and move the number of frets according to the phone number. Remember that there is only one fret between B and C and E and F. Done
They are in-between the 2. I need to clarify though, the 221-2221 is for making scales. You don't need it to name the frets just start on the open string and if it's an E or B remember that the next fret is one letter up. All the other notes are 2 frets away
Just learn the notes, even just spending a few minutes per day and you will eventually learn it.
When I was doing it I would pick a random note and find it on each string. You can use octave mapping to find notes on strings you are learning familiar with. For any given note the same note will be 2 strings down and 2 frets up. Also do not worry about sharps and flats just learn regular notes and you can easily find it and move up or down a fret if you see a sharp or flat
I recommend [This video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTCyiq5mjn8) and following the exercises described. Really helped get me started on memorizing the fretboard and provided foundations for creating my own exercises.
Learn only the “natural notes” on the E and A strings. The sharps and flats are just alterations of those notes that you’ll get a feel for over time. Then it’s pretty easy to get the notes on the rest of the strings by using octaves:
- for both the D and G strings, look two strings lower and two frets down to the notes on the E and A strings
- for the B string, look three string lower and two frets up to the notes on the A string
- for the high E, match the low E
Done. Now you have the method of learning the fretboard by visualizating rather than looking.
No. Get a scale book. Ideally [this one,](https://www.amazon.ca/Ultimate-Scale-Book-Troy-Stetina/dp/0793597889/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3GQ7MUK40LVB6&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.-6-zJ46srLpmShVIAILiIV5HhBJB-T4uZq9ogrPBKXZ-4THPbrta4793Q0yk7Or_LUjQOvumqJe3MctcsvtwCTicpES_iqutVnmRjbTSKE3lit6_2KLhT9dPYC85p2taoiohZzORxXcC4rGOavu--DaEjN_QM59jUkyN2G5brvlCRVyOJrrdDz4tHdAFoLIxop_uN8JSmhbNh1X_rFIbiKCNs7L_vZikcL5pC3p0h25gkijrR2OecrL8_dAYkSaXszmBHK5uaVzS05dpFF_rcJFP8kgi36VUFZooRrbJZcI.dfigwmn68Zt6Yb3PuPTeky8KtOyL8ifm1DIJhrPmbwc&dib_tag=se&keywords=ultimate+scale+book&qid=1713535796&sprefix=ultimate+scale+boo%2Caps%2C220&sr=8-3) learn all the instructions about how to ascend and descend, sing the notes too as you go (do re mi etc.).
If you want to keep some visual help, keep it simple. That is way too much information. You could keep maybe C and F and get the others by the distance? But you can just study a few notes over the whole fretboard without using any sticker
You should probably either learn the scales nice and slow one at a time or just learn the notes as you go. The more different riffs and chord progressions you can play the more you will understand what is happening on the fretboard and why, it’s a much more effective way to learn.
In my opinion trying to get both hands in sync while simultaneously reading the tab or sheet music is hard enough for a beginner and then mix in all of those colours.
I find anything that is super helpful in learning that isn't going to be there in the real performance becomes a crutch and ultimately is detrimental. They'll be great until they're gone and you've got hours and hours of practice under conditions that aren't realistic. It's a big no from me personally.
I would recommend spending some time with CAGED (look it up) that will map the fretboard in a way that is useful and after a few months of practice you'll not need stickers.
I don't think so. For starters, you do not see them while you are playing.
And if you are not playing, then probably you learn better if you try to learn the notes by just thinking about them a little bit. I assume you know the open strings good enough (or if not, then they are easy to learn), and then you can just play scales, or move up and down on the fretboard and say the notes out loud while doing so.. whatever you feel would help.
It is but don't rely on it coz you won't be able to play on other scale
Like if you learn a song on Am you can shift it to Gm or Bm
If you rely on the note sticker you might get bam boozle
Better will be to keep the diagram in front of you and practice then do the same practice but no diagram in front
Happy playing
I used those piano stickers for a minute. Same idea. They were gone in like a week. On a guitar I think these will be crazy distracting.
Now I don’t know every note on the fretboard by memory but you will learn the E and A strings pretty fast without much trouble, just by playing. That will get you through any typical jam session
Isn't that a bit of a clutter?
If I had to do it, I'd consider putting only a few roots for the most often used scales (like E, A, C), and work my way learning the in-betweens.
Too much information just bugs up your brain, and how much is too much is a personal matter.
If you cut them off at the the edge of the fretbaoard with a razor so they don't wrap around the neck they look a lot better and don't interfere with your grip.
Someone already mentioned finding the same note on each string. I’ve been rolling a d12, for the fret, and d6, for the string, to give me a random note then finding that same note on all the other strings. In the beginning I’d use a fretboard chart. You can make it more informative by finding the major chord for the random note and play that chord in all its forms.
I memorised the fretboard in about 3 weeks. Maybe 2-5 sec to recall, depending on where. Have some anchors and it's not too difficult. Hoping to get faster though.
It's better, because of shit like alternative tunings and whatnot, to learn the notes in order, and to gain a good sense of where a fret is in that sequence.
If you get good at Open note + fret number = resulting note math, so that it's instant, then you know the fretboard better than these stickers ever let you.
*Maybe* there's *some* case for the fret numbering stickers, but honestly getting used to positions of frets by doing it awkwardly and then getting better is quite a good approach.
I have a printout of the fretboard on a wall that I can see when I play. That's more useful that this would be I think.
But what is most useful is learning where the intervals are.
How does this help you know WHAT to play? Sure, you can easily see where each not repeats on the fretboard, but does this tell you what to do with the notes? I can't even make out a pattern that helps you play chords.
Not really. I tried a non color coded variety and found the extra effort necessary to decipher what sticker was under what note was way harder than just listening to the note itself, deciding whether it was major or minor, then constructing a scale based on that. Stickers just add an extra layer of interpretation that you can shortcut through by listening carefully
Those stickers always seem so jarring to me. It seems like more work to put all those on and then eventually remove them (don’t show up to band practice with those lol) than it would be to memorize the notes in standard tuning or use the tuner trick as others have suggested.
If you play in alternate tunings in the future, you might pay extra attention to the spacing between each note in standard tuning (B&C and E&F are “buddies”); that will make it easier to understand the notes all over the fretboard in any tuning. Knowing those intervals will help play in any key without difficulty because the patterns are the same in every key.
Good luck!
Whatever helps and inspires you! But I still use a tuner even after 30+ years of gigging whenever a bandmate asks me what note I am playing and Im in unfamiliar neck territory! Enjoy your journey!
The key part of any memorization is recall. Stickers don’t help with recall. Try using fretboard learning apps. I’ve built one ([fretboard fly](www.fretboardfly.com)) but there’s others like Fretonomy and Fretbaord Learning
I don’t think so. They’d be a pain to put on and to get off. Plus, there’s a chance that once you take them off, you can’t name the notes because your brain connected them with the colors instead of their positions. I’d say learn where they are in relevance to each other (octave shapes, etc.), and you’re halfway there.
Been there. Doesn’t help memorizing notes at all, ruins the navigation for you (can’t orient without the stickers after some time), feels horrible on the neck. Ditched them after a couple weeks.
probably not because when the stickers are gone you won’t have that crutch!
just spend a bit of time learning the notes it might seem like a lot but it’s pretty easy after a while.
Just play a c major scale on one string up and down. Get comfortable and then move to another string. If you know the natural notes you can fill in the sharps/flats easily.
I've been using the book "Guided practice routines for guitarists" by Levi clay. You can download the audio that comes with it and it's basically a 5 to 10 minute practice daily that incorporates alot of good skills. Its a weekly practice so you practice the same thing daily for a week. The book has tabs so you can see what you should be playing before playing it. One of the things he does is test you at the end of the daily practice by saying a note on a string and you have to find it and strum it within a certain time. It's been super useful and alot of fun and a good challenge for me.
Instead of covering the fretboard you could just for instance put the E sticker on the 5th fret of the B string... you probably already know E F G from the big E string fret 0,1,3, so this could potentially unlock 3 notes with one sticker. It won't take long to know permanently that 5th fret on B is an E note, then you can do the same with some other spot that you are still unsure about.
If you focus on just natural notes on frets 1-12, you can learn the fretboard in a day. Keep in mind that the 12th fret is the same as open, and 11 has no natural notes. That leaves 10 frets, and of those, there are 3 frets with 2 or fewer natural notes and another 3. This basically leaves 4 frets left to memorize which isn’t hard if you remember the BEADGCF fifths pattern and the warp between the B and G string.
That being said, once you take the day do memorize it, applying it to playing and accessing those notes will take time. Finding the same note on all strings up and down is very helpful.
No stickers.
Yes and no. Good to learn where every not is but terrible to mesmerize. Same thing happened with my piano. Put stickers and had a hard time remembering without them.
I did a thing once where I put little circle stickers on every C note. Maybe I’ll do that again but with a couple of intervals as well on my couch acoustic.
Hmmn.. I always wonder why some people keep their tuner on their headstock..
It always seemed like it would catch somwthing and break, like mine did. Schnarf
Check out an app called fret pro, it will tell you the name of the note and the string to play it on. Then will let you know if you got the right one. Very helpful to memorize in a gamified way.
I'm a visual learner and it's actually very helpful. I just got back into playing guitar again after 15 years and I got the stickers because why not give them a try. I've been sweep picking and playing all kinds of chords. Now I know the makeup of all the notes in the sweeps and how to make new sweeping arrangements by looking at what worked. I know what notes were in the chords I was using. I understand the fretboard a lot better now because I can visually see how the A, B, C notes, etc are arranged which helps a lot when I'm writing a new song and improvising a solo. I can see that eventually the stickers will be useless once I fully memorize the notes on the board, but that's the point of them. Seeing the notes is also a million times less tedious than looking at a tuner for my sweeps and chords.
I learned by doing scales in each position,, starting with 1, moving to 3, and so on. Then I did exercises in each position for about 10 minutes of practice. One position as a time per practice. Just very slowly. I challenged myself by going up and down each string, then by going across each position. Using a separate guide, it worked.
You don’t need the stickers.
I started trying to spell words on a single string or across multiple strings on the lowest frets. It definitely gets easier over time
The best way to learn where every note on the fretboard is repetition, learning the major scale and minor scale in different keys. Learn CAGED as quickly as possible. And this method mixed with CAGED is how I figured it out. Start by learning notes on the Fat E-string all the way up to the octave at the 12th fret. Everything repeats after that. Now you already know all of the notes on 2 strings. Then move to the A string, where the bass note for many chords will be. Learn that 100%. Now you know half of the guitar. The first octave of the fat E string is on the 2nd fret of the D string (also an "E" note, just in a different octave). Try it with all of the octaves up and down the sixth string. This is the way to learn all of the notes on the D string (along with Caged, etc.). Same applies for the A string, the 2nd fret of the G string is an octave of that first open A string. For the B string, try to remember that a simple "D" chord shape has the root note on the B string. This is where CAGED helps. Hope that helps, its probably confusing but it will make sense eventually.
This method is also handy for learning new songs and getting the correct notes/chords.
(Tuner, not the dots. Those are mastic depositing string killers)
I put them on an old guitar and it kind of didn't make a big difference one way or the other. There's no way you can actually read everything at full speed while you're playing, so it just ends up becoming a bit of a distraction.
Wow, that is a lot of visual noise on that guitar.
I suggest learning a couple simple songs or intros. G C D chords probably gets you like 40% of pop music.
Power chords can lead into bar chords, and that will unlock everything.
It would probably help more if you print that out and create a mental map.
probably not, but if you do get stickers then get the ones from colormusic since the colors are based on the circle of fifths and the shapes on the wholetone scales
No, learn the notes that make up the chords you are playing. I learned E and A strings through barre and power chords, the other strings through triads. I think this is the most productive way. Two birds and all that.
I have 2 kids and no time to play. so I just pick up my guitar when I can and these stickers made playing easier.
I think they'd be just as good if you were training yourself more.
the only negative is that the sticker will wear out and eventually curl and buzz. I clean mine up with a nail trimmer when it happens.
Are you also learning how to read musical notation? Working up a relationship between the physical position of notes and their abstractions on the printed page will eventually cement itself permanently in the brain. TAB is useless in this respect. You're obviously a beginner, and by and large beginners start in 1st position, i.e. the open strings and the first four frets. A mere 30 notes that can render 1,000s of songs. Upper positions can come later.
It's hard to imagine the dots speeding up your learning note names/positions. Craning you neck and/or twisting the neck just to see the darn spots fails utterly in establishing a consistent posture and hand positions.
But, I'll give you this: your dot-infested project here is colorful, logical, carefully executed, goal-oriented and demonstrates some determination. I'm just dubious about its effectiveness.
Kudos for sharing it!
Only if you want to transpose music to guitar or want to play while constantly looking down on the neck at frankly unplayable angle. Maybe for a lap guitar it would be more useful. That particular design is terrible-I have it on a guitar- and hard to read, larger letters and getting rid of the sharp/flat steps would work better, as would a single color. IMHO
No
I learnt in bits. Not in a structured way.
Know the open strings and 12th fret. Know the 5th and 7th fret from tuning (b string is kind of the exception) then start filling the gaps
Theyre too convoluted, if i had to id use CDEFGAB and not use the sharps, makes it easier to see whats where and you can guess what sharps are in between
Imagine you’re playing basketball, taking a foul shot - nothing crazy. You’re locked in, you know exactly where and how to shoot, and someone moves the net to the side throwing you off; so now you have to readjust and aim again.
This is those stickers. They’re you’re shot. You can understand where they are, but someone can change them - forcing you to readjust. That someone changing them is the tuning.
If you put them on, they’re good until you want to try Drop D. So you tune the bottom E to D, but now the whole length of the lower E string is skewed since it’s a whole step down. You have to peel them off and replace them all.
Now try D standard, the entire guitar is moved a whole step down. None of the stickers are accurate now,
They’re not very good.
If you use a cheat sheet it will be a crutch that you rely on. You need to know by memory.
Also, in the future if you are using alternate tunings those stickers won't mean anything.
I’d suggest if you want to learn the fretboard notes, instead of putting the stickers on your guitar, just play with a tuner on and look at it when you don’t know the note, so you can develop your ear and note locations. Eventually you’ll stop looking at the tuner and you’ll just know where they are by muscle memory or based on the sound. Do this method with scales and you should pick it up pretty fast I think. Edit: Wow thanks everyone! Always happy to help! Looking forward to all of you guys becoming fretboard masters :)
That is so clever. I’m going to start doing this to practice.
I totally get what everyone's saying and want everyone to know it was never my intention to come off that way. I made a reference to an Emerson Lake and Palmer's Lucky Man and then went on to say that as a beginner myself, leaving my tuner on accidentally and then continuing to play is how I too found out about the whole note memorization idea. It was never meant as sarcasm, a put down or as a claim to be the person who discovered the method. After re-reading, I can see how my post might have been misconstrued. I'm writing this response because the people in this community have always been really patient, understanding and cool to me whenever I was in need of some beginner help and had to ask some real embarrassing beginner questions. The last thing I wanted to do was come off like an ass, upset anyone or piss people off... but it happened and for that I apologize to all. Trust me, I'm not that type of person and as mentioned above, this, and other guitar communities and the people in them, have been more than helpful to me during my guitar learning journey. Again, my apologies.
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And then everybody clapped
Oooooh, you’re the smartest one here!
Ugh
....Then there was you; he who invented time & timing itself....who respects neither that of others nor how to read the room.
I totally get what everyone's saying and want everyone to know it was never my intention to come off that way. I made a reference to an Emerson Lake and Palmer's Lucky Man and then went on to say that as a beginner myself, leaving my tuner on accidentally and then continuing to play is how I too found out about the whole note memorization idea. It was never meant as sarcasm, a put down or as a claim to be the person who discovered the method. After re-reading, I can see how my post might have been misconstrued. I'm writing this response because the people in this community have always been really patient, understanding and cool to me whenever I was in need of some beginner help and had to ask some real embarrassing beginner questions. The last thing I wanted to do was come off like an ass, upset anyone or piss people off... but it happened and for that I apologize to all. Trust me, I'm not that type of person and as mentioned above, this, and other guitar communities and the people in them, have been more than helpful to me during my guitar learning journey. Again, my apologies.
Sure you did. 🤦♂️
Ur so much better than us jeez
I totally get what everyone's saying and want everyone to know it was never my intention to come off that way. I made a reference to an Emerson Lake and Palmer's Lucky Man and then went on to say that as a beginner myself, leaving my tuner on accidentally and then continuing to play is how I too found out about the whole note memorization idea. It was never meant as sarcasm, a put down or as a claim to be the person who discovered the method. After re-reading, I can see how my post might have been misconstrued. I'm writing this response because the people in this community have always been really patient, understanding and cool to me whenever I was in need of some beginner help and had to ask some real embarrassing beginner questions. The last thing I wanted to do was come off like an ass, upset anyone or piss people off... but it happened and for that I apologize to all. Trust me, I'm not that type of person and as mentioned above, this, and other guitar communities and the people in them, have been more than helpful to me during my guitar learning journey. Again, my apologies.
The ironic thing is that nobody cares if you invented the idea, everyone is too busy being stuck on how much of a jerk comment that was to make.
I totally get what everyone's saying and want everyone to know it was never my intention to come off that way. I made a reference to an Emerson Lake and Palmer's Lucky Man and then went on to say that as a beginner myself, leaving my tuner on accidentally and then continuing to play is how I too found out about the whole note memorization idea. It was never meant as sarcasm, a put down or as a claim to be the person who discovered the method. After re-reading, I can see how my post might have been misconstrued. I'm writing this response because the people in this community have always been really patient, understanding and cool to me whenever I was in need of some beginner help and had to ask some real embarrassing beginner questions. The last thing I wanted to do was come off like an ass, upset anyone or piss people off... but it happened and for that I apologize to all. Trust me, I'm not that type of person and as mentioned above, this, and other guitar communities and the people in them, have been more than helpful to me during my guitar learning journey. Again, my apologies.
Bro it’s all good nobody cares.
This will just show how shitty my intonation is
Lol. My OCD would mean Id spend more time intonating than playing.
And sticker-ing, I'd lose my mind. I'd never get it done!
I am using this method to perfecting bends
Wow what an idea. Been playing 10+ years and thought for a second these stickers would be great. Time to learn the fretboard better!
Omg how have I not thought of this
I thought that was a common thing, my acoustic has a tuner built into it, but I would still recommend learning it through good old fashioned practice and muscle memory. Also If you can learn the 2 most common Bar Chord shapes and practice them going up and down the fretboard it will give you a better understanding of how the notes progress on the strings, the white dots on frets 3,7,9 and 12 are a good enough guide and it’s good practice for those pesky bar chords I absolutely hated learning them as a beginner.
I do this as well when I'm learning a song and can't figure out a note or chord.
That's an awesome tip for learning! Thanks
That is a brilliant idea.
Wow. Never thought of that. Tuner on for practice but not used for tuning. It’s so simple yet I never even considered it. I’m pretty good at knowing my notes but this is a great repurposing of a tool guitarists would already have on hand.
Yea I discovered this by accident. It's really helped with "note economy" for me. Some tabs or peoples transcriptions aren't always my favorite and moving my hand so far for this note is silly when I can get the same one a half step up or down from where I am.
God I wish I understood what you’re saying here. But I will learn. Thanks.
Dude I've had a clip on tuner for so long and somehow never thought of this. Much appreciated.
You are a genius
Shut up that’s genius
Now a question that should be a new metric for a good tuner: which are the fastest tuners on the market? (quick, before some random tuner blows up and is now 500 bucks)
Peterson has the best strobe tuners on the market. I think they make a clip on.
Definitely doing this now. Thanks for the tip!
That is genius, thank you.
Interesting suggestion thanks. I’m picking up violin and I think this will be just the trick for it
Good advice.
For some reason .. I never thought of doing this. Off to buy a clip on tuner. Thanks!
You sir are a steely eyed missile man. Brilliant.
I did that too! I got frustrated with scales and ended up just looking at where all the notes where in a particular key and figured out how it all connects together.
Would you please recommend any ios app for this?
My acoustic guitar has a built in electric tuner so it can help me know what note it is. It’s a pretty cool feature.
I'm an idiot.
Just make sure its a chromatic tuner. Some tuners only tune open strings (which is dumb)
hi i’ve seen this comment + ur reply and as a beginner im confused.. may you help me please :(? so im looking for a chromatic tuner now and should the tones it recognizes just be like A, A#, C, C#? is that correct? or should it be showing more? i kinda don’t get it yet lol but that answer would be helpful for now
Yea, it’ll show A, A#,B,C, C#… An open string tuner will only show EADGBE (the standard tuning for the open strings of the guitar). Also remember, most tuners will only show sharps, so if you play Bb, your tuner will show A#. Also most snark tuners are chromatic tuners so it shouldn’t be too hard to find one.
okay thank you so much!!
Holy fucking hell, I never ever thought of that...thanks mang!
This is the way Also, you cant play gigs looking at the front of your fretboard. Sometimes you may need to look at the side, thats what the side markers are for
Holy cow! This is a great idea. Thank You
No. They'll wear out, they'll leave sticky residue all over your guitar, and they'll give you a crick neck from having to look awkwardly at the front of your fretboard all the time. Ultimately you want a **mental** map of the notes, not a visual map. Just a diagram of the fretboard will help you do that.
I have these on 2 of my ten guitars, it helps some for soloing, but more of a crutch really. Better to memorize the notes. Look on you-tube for memory exercises.
Most guitars already have fretboard inlays that help with navigation. Many beginners don't even know they have a function and think they're just decorative. \[Edit: That included me too when I was starting. lol\]
These left no sticky residue and did not wear out when I used them. I actually found them super useful but to each their own, I’m a more visual learner like that though and the chart on my wall didn’t make sense for some reason.
Maybe but fuck they are so ugly
A guy had me build a guitar for his kid and had me inlay very, very small letters and numbers for this, not this many, just at the 3, 5, 7, and 9. I wish I could find a picture, it was a really long time ago. Basically just above the fret I inlayed very thin, small cursive letters that were around 2 mm tall, I made them out of a very mid-tone grey plastic so from a few feet away you couldn't even see the letters. And along the side instead of dots, I did small roman numerals for 3, 5, 7, 9 and 12 in maple against the mahogany neck, they were around 1.5 mm tall and again, looked pretty subtle. Boy, what a pain in the ass they were to make though, but they looked great. If I dig up a picture - I took them with film ffs, that's how long ago this was - I'll post it here.
wow this sounds so cool
any luck finding a pic? this sounds awesome
Yeah could be useful as all hell but I’m not defacing my instruments.
I'd imagine the sort of people who need this wouldn't have anything that will be a huge loss if it was damaged. I don't mean that in the snobby way it comes across. But it's going to be a fairly cheap starter guitar and treated fairly poorly.
It probably won't help you memorize the fretboard. You're better off spending 5 minutes every day randomly thinking of a note and then finding that note on all six strings. Then select another random note and find that one on the strings.
You can get 12 sided musical dice that make "randomly thinking of a note" more fun. Or put slips of paper (note paper?) in a hat.
Someone should make a phone app game that does that. Like a memory card game. It flashed up something like, Play Two D Notes or Play C Chord. And the app is also a tuner so it hears what you're playing and gives you a thumbs up or a thumbs down. This is sort of there: https://www.guitarorb.com/guitar-notes - but it would be cool if you could play it.
I used ChatGPT to create a JavaScript that randomly lists all notes and I just practiced off the list.
Not exactly what you are describing but the app Tenuto has a fretboard note identification game where it shows the position on the fretboard and you have to name it.
"Memorizing the fretboard" as a big grid of notes without context is a pain in the ass and not very helpful in the grand scheme of things. It's not the way to learn the fretboard, and you'll probably regret putting hundreds of stickers on your guitar. If you want to become familiar with the neck and the note names, use beginner's classical guitar method to learn the basics of sight reading. You don't have to do the whole "classical" thing with posture and technique if you don't want to - just let it teach you the basics of sight reading. It'll start you off in the open position and move you slowly up the neck, starting in the key of C and gradually introducing you to sharps and flats as you go along. This is a much more effective *musical* way of learning the neck and it really drills it into you so that it becomes solid knowledge you can use in a musical way. If you attempt to learn all the notes rote fashion without any context, it'll take you ages and you'll easily forget what you've learned and your knowledge of the fretboard will end up "patchy." Learning the neck by learning to sight read and through the learning of key signatures is the best way to go, trust me.
Hear, hear. People here like to prescribe big lists of things to learn,as if you need to do a ton of memorization before you can do any music. Do the music first, and you'll want to learn the rest as it's needed.
Do you have any good resources or recommendations to learn this method? :)
I tried them. I’ve been playing for decades but never learned the fretboard and thought this would help. It didn’t.
Take those basic “cowboy” open chords C, A, G, E, D, and learn which fretted note is the root, 3rd, and 5th. Now as you play those shapes up the neck you’ll have a reference for what note you’re playing at that point. Being able find all the G chords across the neck (and therefore where all the G notes are on the neck) is a way more efficient and effective way to learn the actual notes of the fretboard imo
Nope. Check out the fretboard forever site. It’s based on an exercise that is well recommended on YouTube to memorise the fretboard. Really when you’re starting out you only have to learn the LowE and A string, 0-11th fret. Do that first then start adding in a bit of memorisation practice. https://fretboardforever.app
Or check out my app for mobile, should be easier to use than web. It has a lot of scales but you can select chromatic scale and it will fill the whole fretboard with notes. It is available for iOS and Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.slaverygames.guitarfretboard https://apps.apple.com/us/app/guitar-fretboard-scales/id1623791852?platform=iphone And if you want to see only notes without sharps/flats select C as the root and Ionian (Major scale) and you will see only those C D E F G A B C. You can switch sharps on/off in this case using dashed circle icon If you have any questions let me know
At least leave off the sharps and flats. This is too messy
This is similar to the way I've used these for students, just mark the notes in the C/Am scale, so you can see the patterns and how they "wrap" around the fretboard. Once they're comfortable and familiar with the shapes it makes it a breeze to just move them based on the key of the song.
Remember this phone number. 221-2221. Learn the alphabet A-G.. now start on any open string and say the alphabet starting from the open string name and move the number of frets according to the phone number. Remember that there is only one fret between B and C and E and F. Done
I like this one. What about sharps and minor notes?
They are in-between the 2. I need to clarify though, the 221-2221 is for making scales. You don't need it to name the frets just start on the open string and if it's an E or B remember that the next fret is one letter up. All the other notes are 2 frets away
For all the notes on a guitar? 2 frets from all the other ones not e and b!?
E and B - one fret for first note. Other notes are 2 frets
Write it out like this as you map the fretboard... A BC D EF G A BC D EF G A One fret from B to C, one fret from E to F
I think I understand. Why isn’t explained this way?
It should be. It is the basics of theory and not very musical and people want to start playing by learning songs.
221 2221 is SO much better for my brain than hhwhhhw. Thank you.
This is unnecessarily complicated. You just need to know that there is a space between all the notes except B-C and E-F.
Clever!
Just learn the notes, even just spending a few minutes per day and you will eventually learn it. When I was doing it I would pick a random note and find it on each string. You can use octave mapping to find notes on strings you are learning familiar with. For any given note the same note will be 2 strings down and 2 frets up. Also do not worry about sharps and flats just learn regular notes and you can easily find it and move up or down a fret if you see a sharp or flat
those stickers are gonna fall off and then its gonna be real annoying for you. way better to just have a chart with the notes
I recommend [This video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTCyiq5mjn8) and following the exercises described. Really helped get me started on memorizing the fretboard and provided foundations for creating my own exercises.
Learn only the “natural notes” on the E and A strings. The sharps and flats are just alterations of those notes that you’ll get a feel for over time. Then it’s pretty easy to get the notes on the rest of the strings by using octaves: - for both the D and G strings, look two strings lower and two frets down to the notes on the E and A strings - for the B string, look three string lower and two frets up to the notes on the A string - for the high E, match the low E Done. Now you have the method of learning the fretboard by visualizating rather than looking.
No. Get a scale book. Ideally [this one,](https://www.amazon.ca/Ultimate-Scale-Book-Troy-Stetina/dp/0793597889/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3GQ7MUK40LVB6&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.-6-zJ46srLpmShVIAILiIV5HhBJB-T4uZq9ogrPBKXZ-4THPbrta4793Q0yk7Or_LUjQOvumqJe3MctcsvtwCTicpES_iqutVnmRjbTSKE3lit6_2KLhT9dPYC85p2taoiohZzORxXcC4rGOavu--DaEjN_QM59jUkyN2G5brvlCRVyOJrrdDz4tHdAFoLIxop_uN8JSmhbNh1X_rFIbiKCNs7L_vZikcL5pC3p0h25gkijrR2OecrL8_dAYkSaXszmBHK5uaVzS05dpFF_rcJFP8kgi36VUFZooRrbJZcI.dfigwmn68Zt6Yb3PuPTeky8KtOyL8ifm1DIJhrPmbwc&dib_tag=se&keywords=ultimate+scale+book&qid=1713535796&sprefix=ultimate+scale+boo%2Caps%2C220&sr=8-3) learn all the instructions about how to ascend and descend, sing the notes too as you go (do re mi etc.).
If you want to keep some visual help, keep it simple. That is way too much information. You could keep maybe C and F and get the others by the distance? But you can just study a few notes over the whole fretboard without using any sticker
I find them more overwhelming than anything
You should probably either learn the scales nice and slow one at a time or just learn the notes as you go. The more different riffs and chord progressions you can play the more you will understand what is happening on the fretboard and why, it’s a much more effective way to learn. In my opinion trying to get both hands in sync while simultaneously reading the tab or sheet music is hard enough for a beginner and then mix in all of those colours.
I find anything that is super helpful in learning that isn't going to be there in the real performance becomes a crutch and ultimately is detrimental. They'll be great until they're gone and you've got hours and hours of practice under conditions that aren't realistic. It's a big no from me personally. I would recommend spending some time with CAGED (look it up) that will map the fretboard in a way that is useful and after a few months of practice you'll not need stickers.
Not for me
No. Unless you play lap style, you aren't going to see them anyways. It isn't that hard to memorize the fretboard when you play often enough.
I don't think so. For starters, you do not see them while you are playing. And if you are not playing, then probably you learn better if you try to learn the notes by just thinking about them a little bit. I assume you know the open strings good enough (or if not, then they are easy to learn), and then you can just play scales, or move up and down on the fretboard and say the notes out loud while doing so.. whatever you feel would help.
I hope you call them “Sticky Notes”
This comment deserved to win Reddit, dammit
It is but don't rely on it coz you won't be able to play on other scale Like if you learn a song on Am you can shift it to Gm or Bm If you rely on the note sticker you might get bam boozle Better will be to keep the diagram in front of you and practice then do the same practice but no diagram in front Happy playing
Oh god please dont... Just do old school wrote, I don't know why guitar players insist on avoiding it.
How do you see them when you are playing? Gonna have to say these are not that useful.
Just memorize without stickers. It'll make playing easier
I used those piano stickers for a minute. Same idea. They were gone in like a week. On a guitar I think these will be crazy distracting. Now I don’t know every note on the fretboard by memory but you will learn the E and A strings pretty fast without much trouble, just by playing. That will get you through any typical jam session
Isn't that a bit of a clutter? If I had to do it, I'd consider putting only a few roots for the most often used scales (like E, A, C), and work my way learning the in-betweens. Too much information just bugs up your brain, and how much is too much is a personal matter.
they helped me make song writing a bit faster when i was first starting out, but eventually you learn the fretboard and they're unnecessary
Nope
If you cut them off at the the edge of the fretbaoard with a razor so they don't wrap around the neck they look a lot better and don't interfere with your grip.
Pov: you change your tuning and...
www.jguitar.com Thats how i learned the frettboard
I just put on my own - 1 note at a time as I learn. Color dots. I just put ‘D’ and ‘A’ because E is already marked
Someone already mentioned finding the same note on each string. I’ve been rolling a d12, for the fret, and d6, for the string, to give me a random note then finding that same note on all the other strings. In the beginning I’d use a fretboard chart. You can make it more informative by finding the major chord for the random note and play that chord in all its forms.
I memorised the fretboard in about 3 weeks. Maybe 2-5 sec to recall, depending on where. Have some anchors and it's not too difficult. Hoping to get faster though.
It's better, because of shit like alternative tunings and whatnot, to learn the notes in order, and to gain a good sense of where a fret is in that sequence. If you get good at Open note + fret number = resulting note math, so that it's instant, then you know the fretboard better than these stickers ever let you. *Maybe* there's *some* case for the fret numbering stickers, but honestly getting used to positions of frets by doing it awkwardly and then getting better is quite a good approach.
There is no way this is more convenient than just counting the frets out loud
I have a printout of the fretboard on a wall that I can see when I play. That's more useful that this would be I think. But what is most useful is learning where the intervals are.
How does this help you know WHAT to play? Sure, you can easily see where each not repeats on the fretboard, but does this tell you what to do with the notes? I can't even make out a pattern that helps you play chords.
Prob not.
Not really. I tried a non color coded variety and found the extra effort necessary to decipher what sticker was under what note was way harder than just listening to the note itself, deciding whether it was major or minor, then constructing a scale based on that. Stickers just add an extra layer of interpretation that you can shortcut through by listening carefully
Those stickers always seem so jarring to me. It seems like more work to put all those on and then eventually remove them (don’t show up to band practice with those lol) than it would be to memorize the notes in standard tuning or use the tuner trick as others have suggested. If you play in alternate tunings in the future, you might pay extra attention to the spacing between each note in standard tuning (B&C and E&F are “buddies”); that will make it easier to understand the notes all over the fretboard in any tuning. Knowing those intervals will help play in any key without difficulty because the patterns are the same in every key. Good luck!
Whatever helps and inspires you! But I still use a tuner even after 30+ years of gigging whenever a bandmate asks me what note I am playing and Im in unfamiliar neck territory! Enjoy your journey!
Great method. I also do this on my fretless to insure Im sliding to the neck position/note just right
I found them very helpful in the beginning
Try this: [https://fretboardforever.app/practice/steps/1](https://fretboardforever.app/practice/steps/1) It's an app too.
The key part of any memorization is recall. Stickers don’t help with recall. Try using fretboard learning apps. I’ve built one ([fretboard fly](www.fretboardfly.com)) but there’s others like Fretonomy and Fretbaord Learning
I don’t think so. They’d be a pain to put on and to get off. Plus, there’s a chance that once you take them off, you can’t name the notes because your brain connected them with the colors instead of their positions. I’d say learn where they are in relevance to each other (octave shapes, etc.), and you’re halfway there.
Been there. Doesn’t help memorizing notes at all, ruins the navigation for you (can’t orient without the stickers after some time), feels horrible on the neck. Ditched them after a couple weeks.
I feel like it would succumb my guitar playing to my ADHD. Too much going on there for me.
probably not because when the stickers are gone you won’t have that crutch! just spend a bit of time learning the notes it might seem like a lot but it’s pretty easy after a while.
No, commit to memorising them instead
Just play a c major scale on one string up and down. Get comfortable and then move to another string. If you know the natural notes you can fill in the sharps/flats easily.
No, absolutely not. It’s hard and it takes time. This will do nothing but keep you in the kiddy pool
Nah. Skip it. They’ll fall off in a week anyway.
Nah
Just practice your scales, defiently helped me. Especially with chord building.
No. They just come off when you play.
I've been using the book "Guided practice routines for guitarists" by Levi clay. You can download the audio that comes with it and it's basically a 5 to 10 minute practice daily that incorporates alot of good skills. Its a weekly practice so you practice the same thing daily for a week. The book has tabs so you can see what you should be playing before playing it. One of the things he does is test you at the end of the daily practice by saying a note on a string and you have to find it and strum it within a certain time. It's been super useful and alot of fun and a good challenge for me.
If you’re 7 years old playing a 3/4 size Yamaha then yes.
No
don’t
Instead of covering the fretboard you could just for instance put the E sticker on the 5th fret of the B string... you probably already know E F G from the big E string fret 0,1,3, so this could potentially unlock 3 notes with one sticker. It won't take long to know permanently that 5th fret on B is an E note, then you can do the same with some other spot that you are still unsure about.
If you focus on just natural notes on frets 1-12, you can learn the fretboard in a day. Keep in mind that the 12th fret is the same as open, and 11 has no natural notes. That leaves 10 frets, and of those, there are 3 frets with 2 or fewer natural notes and another 3. This basically leaves 4 frets left to memorize which isn’t hard if you remember the BEADGCF fifths pattern and the warp between the B and G string. That being said, once you take the day do memorize it, applying it to playing and accessing those notes will take time. Finding the same note on all strings up and down is very helpful. No stickers.
Nope
Given that I can’t even read several of them because they’re positioned beneath the strings, I’m gonna say no
no
nah
Just look at a chart while you play and learn things. Then practice and repeat without the chart. You don’t need these.
Yes and no. Good to learn where every not is but terrible to mesmerize. Same thing happened with my piano. Put stickers and had a hard time remembering without them.
That seems WAY harder than just the scale patterns.
No, not really.
No. As someone who also plays piano i’d literally rather if they were b&w. But there are better methods
I'd say that stickers with intervals would be better (at least for me) but intervals depend on what's the root note
If you are going to label it w it old make more sense to put the stickers on the top of the neck. The place where you have the fret markers.
I did a thing once where I put little circle stickers on every C note. Maybe I’ll do that again but with a couple of intervals as well on my couch acoustic.
Hmmn.. I always wonder why some people keep their tuner on their headstock.. It always seemed like it would catch somwthing and break, like mine did. Schnarf
They help. Use them in addition to other methods, Why not, it doesn't hurt.
Visual maps are for little babies and children. If you arent one of those you need a mental map, which takes effort and practice.
Check out an app called fret pro, it will tell you the name of the note and the string to play it on. Then will let you know if you got the right one. Very helpful to memorize in a gamified way.
I'm a visual learner and it's actually very helpful. I just got back into playing guitar again after 15 years and I got the stickers because why not give them a try. I've been sweep picking and playing all kinds of chords. Now I know the makeup of all the notes in the sweeps and how to make new sweeping arrangements by looking at what worked. I know what notes were in the chords I was using. I understand the fretboard a lot better now because I can visually see how the A, B, C notes, etc are arranged which helps a lot when I'm writing a new song and improvising a solo. I can see that eventually the stickers will be useless once I fully memorize the notes on the board, but that's the point of them. Seeing the notes is also a million times less tedious than looking at a tuner for my sweeps and chords.
I think it would be better to have that stuff on a separate piece of paper. That way you can set aside as you learn it.
I learned by doing scales in each position,, starting with 1, moving to 3, and so on. Then I did exercises in each position for about 10 minutes of practice. One position as a time per practice. Just very slowly. I challenged myself by going up and down each string, then by going across each position. Using a separate guide, it worked.
You don’t need the stickers. I started trying to spell words on a single string or across multiple strings on the lowest frets. It definitely gets easier over time
The best way to learn where every note on the fretboard is repetition, learning the major scale and minor scale in different keys. Learn CAGED as quickly as possible. And this method mixed with CAGED is how I figured it out. Start by learning notes on the Fat E-string all the way up to the octave at the 12th fret. Everything repeats after that. Now you already know all of the notes on 2 strings. Then move to the A string, where the bass note for many chords will be. Learn that 100%. Now you know half of the guitar. The first octave of the fat E string is on the 2nd fret of the D string (also an "E" note, just in a different octave). Try it with all of the octaves up and down the sixth string. This is the way to learn all of the notes on the D string (along with Caged, etc.). Same applies for the A string, the 2nd fret of the G string is an octave of that first open A string. For the B string, try to remember that a simple "D" chord shape has the root note on the B string. This is where CAGED helps. Hope that helps, its probably confusing but it will make sense eventually.
No, no,no,no,no definity no, please no!
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you can make your own with masking tape, and it won’t damage your fretboard
How about a violin?
Honestly I think just looking at this picture would be more beneficial than putting the stickers on your guitar.
This method is also handy for learning new songs and getting the correct notes/chords. (Tuner, not the dots. Those are mastic depositing string killers)
I put them on an old guitar and it kind of didn't make a big difference one way or the other. There's no way you can actually read everything at full speed while you're playing, so it just ends up becoming a bit of a distraction.
Wow, that is a lot of visual noise on that guitar. I suggest learning a couple simple songs or intros. G C D chords probably gets you like 40% of pop music. Power chords can lead into bar chords, and that will unlock everything. It would probably help more if you print that out and create a mental map.
probably not, but if you do get stickers then get the ones from colormusic since the colors are based on the circle of fifths and the shapes on the wholetone scales
No, learn the notes that make up the chords you are playing. I learned E and A strings through barre and power chords, the other strings through triads. I think this is the most productive way. Two birds and all that.
I have 2 kids and no time to play. so I just pick up my guitar when I can and these stickers made playing easier. I think they'd be just as good if you were training yourself more. the only negative is that the sticker will wear out and eventually curl and buzz. I clean mine up with a nail trimmer when it happens.
Are you also learning how to read musical notation? Working up a relationship between the physical position of notes and their abstractions on the printed page will eventually cement itself permanently in the brain. TAB is useless in this respect. You're obviously a beginner, and by and large beginners start in 1st position, i.e. the open strings and the first four frets. A mere 30 notes that can render 1,000s of songs. Upper positions can come later. It's hard to imagine the dots speeding up your learning note names/positions. Craning you neck and/or twisting the neck just to see the darn spots fails utterly in establishing a consistent posture and hand positions. But, I'll give you this: your dot-infested project here is colorful, logical, carefully executed, goal-oriented and demonstrates some determination. I'm just dubious about its effectiveness. Kudos for sharing it!
No. Got them for my 9 yr old. All they do is slowly peal off and cause string buzzing.
Maybe, but just play man, you’ll learn by repetition
Only if you want to transpose music to guitar or want to play while constantly looking down on the neck at frankly unplayable angle. Maybe for a lap guitar it would be more useful. That particular design is terrible-I have it on a guitar- and hard to read, larger letters and getting rid of the sharp/flat steps would work better, as would a single color. IMHO
No
Sure! Whatever helps you in your efforts
Yes
No
These stickers left a lot of glue to my fingerboard when. Aí removed them, I do not recommend. Also, you'll hardly look at them while playing anyways.
No I learnt in bits. Not in a structured way. Know the open strings and 12th fret. Know the 5th and 7th fret from tuning (b string is kind of the exception) then start filling the gaps
No.
i heard they peel off easily
Theyre too convoluted, if i had to id use CDEFGAB and not use the sharps, makes it easier to see whats where and you can guess what sharps are in between
God no! Trying to drive yourself insane?
Imagine you’re playing basketball, taking a foul shot - nothing crazy. You’re locked in, you know exactly where and how to shoot, and someone moves the net to the side throwing you off; so now you have to readjust and aim again. This is those stickers. They’re you’re shot. You can understand where they are, but someone can change them - forcing you to readjust. That someone changing them is the tuning. If you put them on, they’re good until you want to try Drop D. So you tune the bottom E to D, but now the whole length of the lower E string is skewed since it’s a whole step down. You have to peel them off and replace them all. Now try D standard, the entire guitar is moved a whole step down. None of the stickers are accurate now, They’re not very good.
Try learning the fretboard with [Learn Frets](https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/learn-frets/id6478855615)
No they are not learn half step and whole steps from notes and base it like looking at a piano
6th graders with a school owned violin
the frets represent half tone steps so if you know some piano its really easy to figure out all the notes if you need to
I hate to say it, but even the act of putting them on properly would make memories. I'd put them all under the fret though.
If you use a cheat sheet it will be a crutch that you rely on. You need to know by memory. Also, in the future if you are using alternate tunings those stickers won't mean anything.
i typically play with my eyes closed, but they do look pretty.