Guitar Notes (knowing the neck like the back of your hand)

Hi guys! As you can see from those of you who looked at my profile I'm fairly new to guitar but have been playing instruments for a couple years.

Now that I'm at a stage where I can play a bunch of chords, power chords, scales, a few licks, etc. I think I need to seriosuly start learning the position of the notes on the fretboard.

Does anybody have a method to recommend for this? Anything would be better than just rote learning. I already know a lot of musical theory so I'm really just interested in the things specific to guitar such as say theres an A note here where else would you find an A note. But I do want to know every ntoe on the fretboard so.

Er, I ramble, any suggestions would be HIGHLY appreciated!

Best Regards,
Philipp

Hi Philmarq
Okay I use scales to learn my fret notes of the guitar and that is going back to the stone age. So it very easy now with the inter web so I will leave you with a download that you can use which will get you up and running in no time. What I do stress is learn a string at a time one each day then go back and back until you think you got it. Then test yourself close your eyes and pick a note and tell yourself what the note is. if you are wrong then find the answer. Enough waffle from me so download I manage to track down Enjoy

http://www.absolutefretboard.com/aft/lite.htm

It free but you can donate if you like to

Ah damnit Im on a Mac thats not gonna run :(. Thanks for you suggestions though!

I'll poke around and see if theres similar OS X software.

I can thoroughly recommend Fretboard Warrior. It is completely free, here's the link - http://www.francoisbrisson.com/fretboardwarrior/

Another really good one is this - http://www.musictheory.net/trainers/html/id81_en.html (also free to download)

Both are fairly self-explanatory. Give it a go - they helped me!

Best wishes,
Afro

Afro_Raven
i havent looked at them... are there any with the tunning changeable??