Fret numbers or notes?

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Salvatore 12 July 2, 2020 0 Comments

Hello Lee,

i bought both your books and i can only say that they are underpriced and underratet.

Thanks to your uncomplicated and direct explanations of things i am getting grip of the fretboard, at last!.

I have a question:

what is recommended when going up and down the fretboard, fretnumbers or notes?

Thanks and regards

Salvatore from Germany

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score 0 · Answer 1 · 2020-07-02T22:53:50+00:00

Hi Salvatore, thanks for the kind words.

Notes are definitely the most important, the quicker you can find a root note, the quicker you can navigate your way around. Fret numbers will just come to you as part of learning the notes but I don’t think they’re important.

On the other hand, knowing things like a b7 is two frets down or a m3rd is three frets up – things like that are important. The more you know, the better but just learn in your own time. You don’t need to know the entire fretboard inside out to be a good guitarist, it just all helps.