A fellow forum member here Slipin Lizard suggested a book by Barrett Tagliarino to learn the fretboard cold with the goal of improving improvisation and getting out of the pentatonic rut. The book is called "Guitar Fretboard Workbook". Already on chapter 2 it is presenting the material in a way that I have never seen helping you identify root notes up the fretboard.

So, my mission for the next month is to work though the chapters and exercises spending at least 15 min. per day.

It will be interesting to see where this leads... I'm excited because this is an approach I haven't seen.

From reviews on this book, it seems to lend itself well to visual learners...of which I am one. The author also states that these books target audience are people like me - people with some skill on the guitar but get stuck because what they are doing is by wrote.

So for now, my focus will be on this book and I will go through song tutorials here on Guitar Tricks to keep things interesting.

I'll report back sometime in January with my impression of this method.