Originally Posted by: SebastBergHere's a great exercise that I picked up from Joe Satriani to learn the fretboard.

Set your metronome at 60. Pick a note (c# for exemple).
Then on every click you play c# . You go through all the c#'s on the neck
then you choose another note, you do the same and another note and so on.
You do that for all 12 notes. If 60 is to fast, drop it down. If its too slow, make it faster. You do that till you can do it in your sleep.

Add this to your daily warm up or practice routine and you will learn the fretboard very fast.

I think this exercise was explained in one of the latest GT Channel videos, actually. Just look through the Guitar Tricks Lesson Of The Week vids for 2013. You know you've found the right one when it's Mike Olekshy doing the video and not Neal Walter. Great exercise despite how simple it looks.

The video I'm talking about is right here: http://www.guitartricks.com/lesson.php?input=20459&s_id=1626

It only covers all positions of a note up to the 12th fret, but you can easily remove that limitation.