Learn the notes on the fretboard. Use Octaves

Fretboard familiarity, memorizing the notes on the neck, increasing your fretboard knowledge. We all want these things. But memorizing the notes on the fretboard can seem like a daunting task...on the guitar I'm holding, there are 132 possible notes to play!

Mapping octaves to the fretboard allows you to build a reliable scaffolding that you can use to find ANY NOTE you need, and also doubles as a way to map and keep ANY new information on the neck!

00:00 Thesis
00:59 Introduction
02:08 Lesson
15:18 Wrap Up

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Thanks for watching!
Chris

[zakdhabalia]

Goodness me, probably one of the single most useful guitar theory lessons on the entire internet. I'm always staggered how there are just outlier teachers who can actually provide genuine gifts of insight and teaching to us. Thank you for your time and generosity.

[miketracy]

This feels like a video I’m going to keep coming back to until the content is internalized. Great video and well explained

[Befffy]

Never thought of the fretboard in this way. The boom came at the exact moment you unlocked something in my brain.

[cubic]

Guys it might take a minute for it to stick but once it does it’s life changing, don’t give up🔥🔥🔥

[maryk]

You take the mystery out of guitar so succinctly. You never waste time showing-off. You just get right to the point. I really appreciate your lessons. Thank you.

[davidpascoe]

This may be one of the most important guitar learning videos on the internet.

[joycegrove]

I did the octaves exercise from your old video and it totally opened up the fretboard to me - GAME CHANGER!!
Thanks Chris!!

[marcbe]

I don't get ah ha moments so often watching guitar tutorials... But here is one. Chris, you are one of the best teachers around. Calm attitude and right to the point. Keep it up !

[adavies]

I wish I could afford to give you more!
You’re such a fantastic teacher.
Love from the UK.

[lawrencelassiter]

Your teaching methods light a lot of lightbulbs going off in my head 😀😀

[Ynherag]

Fun fact: with this method, you don't need pentatonic or whatever boxes anymore. Learn your intervals. And name them while you're playing.
Thanks Chris!

[Skamoni]

I watch the video at least once every couple days just to remind myself how useful this is; every day I am aiming to learn one new note (in the circle of fifths) and all of its octaves on the fretboard. Cannot thank you enough!

[tone-glide]

Very important lesson here. Some players think its not that important, but knowing all the notes actually makes the fretboard seem smaller and easier to navigate. Great advice! here!

[edhencher]

Hey Chris. You gave me this to work on in our first lesson. I've done these patterns ever since and yes, they do eventually become second nature. All of these lessons you are sharing are like building blocks that allow us to build our musical house. Some houses are fancier, but we can all build a place to live musically in. I've said this many times already, but thank you for all you do.

[paulfoytack]

71 year old beginner old dog here. I just learned a new trick.
Thanks Chris!

[ChrisRogersMusic]

Man… 1, 000% can’t unsee these patterns now. I saw another video where you talked about this and then came across this again and it just clicked

[aaronp]

Exactly what I needed. Thank you 1000 times over

[kane]

One thing I’ve noticed is being a bassist that started playing guitar. The bass is how much easier the bass is with learning notes/patterns! I really realized how being tuned all in fourths makes everything so clean, I really see the relationship between intervals more clearly. It pointed out how important knowing that major third pattern compared to all the others!

[josephurbanowski]

It never occurred to me to use the C shape chord to quickly find the octave going back across the strings.👍🏼 I ALWAYS learn something new in your videos.! Thanks Chris..!👍🏼❤️

[jasonh]

Damn, I'm on lunch..., can't wait to get home tonight and try this. Awesome instruction as usual Mr. Sherland