Originally Posted by: Grandslam15Is there a chart or something that has every single note on the fretboard of the guitar?
This lesson has them all:
http://www.guitartricks.com/lesson.php?input=4469
This lesson has them only on the first five frets, but the point is that there are multiple images to help get the idea (only naturals, with accidentals as sharps and as flats):
http://www.guitartricks.com/lesson.php?input=11135
Get a fretboard diagram and fill in all the notes over and again. Test yourself on each note at a time, too. Sheer repetition is very helpful in codifying info in your mind. But I would only suggest this as an option when you are away from your guitar or when you cannot physically play your guitar (on a break at work, for example). I recently put one here for that purpose:
http://www.guitartricks.com/lesson.php?input=11185
Another great conceptual tool is the Octave Method. Visualizing octaves of the same letter on the E, D, & B strings:
E |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
B |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|-G-|---|-A-|
G |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
D |---|---|---|---|-G-|---|-A-|---|---|---|
A |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
E |---|---|-G-|---|-A-|---|---|---|---|---|
Visualizing octaves of the same letter on the A, G, & E strings:
E |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|-C-|---|
B |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
G |---|---|---|---|-C-|---|---|---|---|
D |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
A |---|---|-C-|---|---|---|---|---|---|
E |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Do this for all notes A through G-sharp. Notice it's repeating pattern over and again. The only "bump in the road" is the skip from the G to the B strings. Instead of a two fret jump, it is three.
This is very good info to memorize, but from there the next crucial step is to eventually be able to see all possible scale degrees on the fretboard:
http://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=453
http://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=419
http://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=462
Hope this helps. Let us know how it goes!
