Learning Fretboard......Opinions needed

[everwhen]

Try learning the scale degrees. Numbers make more sense to me intuitively than letters and pound signs. From your chord knowledge you probably already know all of the 1-3-5 combinations. So if you memorize every location of a particular 1, then the 3 and 5 start to fit together. I made a tool to help me learn this stuff and I decided to make a website about it. You can see what I mean and download everything for free here

[Scrybe]

Dunno if it's already been said, but in addition to simply learning the note names for each string/fret on the guitar, I've found I'm much more comfortable playing and using different voicings since really hammering home which pitches are repeated on the guitar (e.g. find every middle C on your guitar, then every F in the octave above middle C on your guitar, and so on). Listen to the difference in timbre, compare different voicings you use - are any of the notes the same pitch in each voicing?, play a C major descending scale while moving up the neck, and so on.

As a rock/blues guitarist coming to jazz, I've found that rock/blues guitarists too easily think "up the neck = up in pitch" when it isn't necessarily so. I'm still getting to grips with being fluid in using this, but found it really connected me to my instrument and opened things up a lot for me. The guitar suddenly "made sense" more like a piano does once I thought about it this way and tired it out.

I don't know who advocates this method particularly, it's just something I came across myself through contemplating the structure of the guitar. It's probably well espoused, tho.