Memorize the Guitar Fretboard! 7 Day Challenge

Been struggling to learn the fretboard for YEARS, and this is the simplest method I’ve seen. May God bless you, Gracie!

How did you know I've been procrastinating on this for the last 25 years?

Just starting this today, have avoided learning the notes on my guitar, along with just about anything at all theory- or reading-related, forever! 😆

Saint Gracie , you place in heaven is assured for the musical joy and knowledge you share with the world ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Wow - you are awesome Gracie! So kind and patient and logical teaching style !! Thanks much!!

Thank you Gracie. This is another great way to learn/memorize the notes on the fretboard.

This is a really simple and elegant way of getting all these notes down, thank you! I've been playing guitar for 14 years & recently decided to brush up on my theory. Thanks for the excellent conent!

Been attempting to learn EVERY note all week... I prefer your way! Day 1. I’ve nailed F 😁

Hey, Gracie, thank you so much for this lesson! This is a great approach for people who are good at memorizing numbers! This is what I’ve been waiting for. Thanks again!

It's taking me 4 days to bring it up the F to 60 bpm. I feel that this excersize is very well worth it. I'm excited to know the fretboard better! Hope others are doing well. Let's stay at it!

Hi Gracie. Loved your lesson today. I would like to share a method that I have learned from my fellow bass players that has helped me to learn both the circle of fourths (and fifths) as well as the note placements on the fretboard. It goes as follows: First, we start by playing our first sequence of notes starting from C natural, F natural, B flat, E flat, A flat, D flat, G flat, B natural, E natural, A natural, D natural, and G natural. And then repeat the sequence only on one string as many times as you like. Try saying each note as you find them on just the one string at a time, at first. And then after about a week or two, once you have pretty much learned the note placements for each string thoroughly, then you can try to find each individual note placement across each of the strings all together. For instance: Try to find all of the C natural note placements forwards and backwards across all of the strings (much like what you show to do in this video). And then try to find all F natural note placements across all of the strings forwards and backwards, and then move on to the B flat note placements, and so on and so forth. I can say that it probably took me about a month to have the ability to completely visualize and know the placement of every last note on my 5 string, 24 fret bass using this hands on approach. I will also admit that, at first, my mind and body resisted even wanting to cooperate with each other because this exercise requires mental concentration as well as hand eye coordination. But I say, if you stick with this exercise, and keep slow and steady with your daily fret board note placements memory exercises, you will slowly begin to develop a sense of the note placements on your instrument. Just remember that resistance to remembering some things does not mean that you are not talented enough, or gifted enough to remember things like the note placements on your fretboard. It just means that you need to take your time and honestly put in the work to learn such an oddly familiar but difficult to master musical skills that seems to be so daunting of a task. To actually memorize the entire note placements across the entire guitar fretboard. But, I guarantee to you that if you put in an half of an hour before and an half of an hour after your daily practice to go through the the circle of fourths fretboard memory exercises that I have posted above, you will have memorized the entire fretboard by the end of your third month or so! So, please give it a try. I mean, even I myself do not possess the best memory and yet now I can visualize each note placement and find all 120 note placements across my 5 string 24 fret bass. Oh yeah! I forgot to mention that I have also memorized the order of the circle of fourths (and fifths) at the same time. This exercise has helped me out greatly and I would like to present it to you for you use if you like, Mrs Gracie. You have helped me to understand music theory better and so I thought that I could give something back. I hope this circle of fourths fretboard memorization method can help you teach about music theory and other related musical topics. Enjoy. ✌🏿👋🏿😎

Great lesson Gracie! Thank you. And you're so sweet! And kind, because your lessons are downloadable. I've put off learning the fretboard long enough already! I'm inspired to start right away!

Excellent approach! Been doing stuff in spreadsheets that are color coded. Adding the numbering system to the arsenal. Thank you so much for sharing this with us!

Ive been looking for a new approach to this! Thank you!

Awesome. This is great stuff Gracie. It is very appreciated

Thanks Gracie: I have tried several methods to learn the fretboard notes, I this sounds like the one that will help me to make a breakthrough 😊

your lessons is what I really needed, Thanks Gracie, it will help me lot,  I just found today your channel, and literally raised up my hand and thank God that I found your videos. I already jot down notes from your lessons, I learned sooooo much <3 Thanks so much, God bless

Gracie, such a killer suggestion. I am 67 years old and nearing retirement and just decided to learn piano and acoustic guitar. I have been buying books to learn this and this is such a great way to understand this…..thank you so so very much, you are a great instructor. 😊😊❤❤!!

Thank you Gracie for a great class. Will be starting the challenge tomorrow morning!

Hi Gracie. A week ago I commited myself to start the learning process of the fretboard via your 7 day challenge. Today as I was attempting to update my progress I must have accidently deleted my original post. So here is my new post. After 7 days, I think I'm fairly confident with the notes F,C,G and D at 60 BPM. Today I will add the note A to my daily practice. I also want to thank you for all your music theory videos. I've been following those for several weeks now. Thanks again Gracie!~