Remembering the fretboard

[OPherman47]

No Problem, most the students i get have struggled to get to mastery of their instrument (i am talking technical not artistic) but learning all your chords, all your scales/modes minor harmnoic, all that crazy stuff... is a finite game. i.e. there is an end in site.... So if i have a student that is willing to do the work in about 2 months i can have them know their neck fluently, know all the adjacent string triads, all their 4 note arpegios, and be able to make a pretty good hack at position playing with a major scale a minor scale and a dominant scale. Speed etc come with time, but at least your mind wont be struggling going on a note or sound search.

But all that stuff... its just tools man, tools.... the art is where its at, and making music from your soul.

Listen to the Master Works as Schoenberg would say... those guys know how.

The art is where the real struggle is. If you believe in that kind of stuff. The technical stuff is a finite game. Its too bad there there isnt a real "how to learn your guitar really awesome- pedogogy book".

Every other instrument has a pretty well worn path to mastery. Guitar is a dang jungle.

[bondmorkret]

For me, a knowledge of scales is paramount for playing jazz. I mean yeah you can get by on hitting the right chord tones by ear, and adding tension tones, but there's so many amazing lines that can only possibly come out as a result of scale practice

[Vashounet]

I used to do these kind of exercices: C on 6th string (8th fret), C on on 5th string (3th fret), etc ... in 5th cycle.
Then I added major third, it looked like C (8th fret) E (12th fret) on 6th, C (3th fret) E(7th fret) on 5th, etc...
Then with minor third, perfect fourth, and so on.
You can do this from top to bottom and vice versa.

It helped me a lot to see notes quickly on fretboard, and to think of chords degrees/ chords tones.
Add this to OPherman47's exercices, work with metronome really slowly and you will you your fretboard!

One last thing, while working on this, try to avoid guitarist's shortcuts like:
from 6th's string C and 5th's string C, there are 5 frets. For some people, working with these shortcuts would
get this too easy wich imply that they won't be focus enough... The goal is to really know the fretboard for a long time,
not to know few tricks to find notes.