Re: Fretboard note Save All flashcards available
I used flash cards for a long time trying to learn to read music. I never made much progress. What did help was copying sheet music into MuseScore, and writing the notes names above the staff on every piece I was learning. Each time I did this, I got better at quickly naming the note, both on treble and bass clefs. Eventually I noticed that I stopped doing this because I was reading the notes pretty quickly.
For the fretboard, it was a little easier because I already knew most of the scale degree relationships (root, 2nd, minor 3rd, major 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, flatted 7th and octave) from playing guitar. Placing a self-adhesive inlay "dot" at each C note has really gotten the note relationships pretty well established. That little cluster of four notes in a square (B,C,E,F) gives four of the seven, so it's then just a matter of getting the sense of where G, A and D fall — (G just to the "right" of the C, D one full step higher than the C and the A just to the right of the D. And that little square of four notes appears one string to the right of the previous, one fret lower (B to F), and again one string to the "left" of the previous one, one fret higher (F to B) The downside at first was that I didn't pay as much attention to the inlay markers at the 2nd, 7th, 12th, 17th frets particularly on my rosewood stick because they're just dot inlays and get lost pretty easily. The Railboard's linear inlay markers stand out much better so I was more aware of those. However, that said, having worked my way through enough StaffTab arrangements I'm getting much more aware of those marker positions even on the instrument where they're not as noticeable. I should also mention that these two instruments are tuned differently (BM and MR) but with the fake inlay dots at the "C" notes, I'm never lost switching between them.
There is a software product called "Neck Diagrams" that I also found helpful in seeing the note relationships. Not sure that it's worth the investment (though it's not horribly expensive) as it's something that is useful for a limited time while you're learning your way around the Stick's fretboard. But it's also fun to use it to help "see" scale and mode patterns beyond the C major scale. It has templates for 10- and 12-string Sticks in various tunings.
By all means, use the flash cards as they might work really well for you, especially if you're not coming from another stringed instrument tuned in 4ths. But the "cheat" of marking one of the notes works really well too!
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