Learn How to Master the Guitar Fretboard in 24 Hours or Less!

Joe: It was helpfull. I'll keep working at it. I mean I wasn't able to memorize and retain the fretboard in 24 hours. It's been a couple months and I still haven't. But I'm ok with the book because it was a good start and taught me in 24 hours -the techniques- for memorizing the fretboard.
I'm a beginner and the guitar is still a handful and mysterious.

United States on Feb 27, 2024

Owen ThomasOwen Thomas: I am a complete beginner in my guitar journey and I was very sceptical about buying this as I’m not very good at understanding things from reading as I’m more of a visual kind of learner (YouTube) but I’ve gotten half way through this book and I’ve gone from knowing nothing about the fretboard to having a basic understanding of how the fretboard works and It feels so satisfying for me to accomplish this. I read through the book in small chunks to get a better understanding and even after reading a section I would go and mull it over like test myself without the book in front of me to see if I was correct, I’m not afraid to say I did go back into the book to check my answers. Don’t get me wrong I still have to think about where notes are on the fretboard but I’m sure after using the guitar more I will become more fluent.
Overall I would highly recommend this book to a complete beginner who is interested in knowing and learning more into their guitar journey.

United Kingdom on Feb 23, 2024

Richard DeCoyRichard DeCoy: Right handed guitar players work up the fretboard left to right. Left handed players work up the fretboard right to left. If I was to use this book, I would have to apply everything backwards; like a mirror image. Left handed images would be great and appreciated. Not the author's fault. It's something I hadn't thought of either.

United States on Feb 22, 2024

Mark C.: Was having trouble w all the you tube tutorials and the book quickly pulled it together for me in a way I learned quickly. Very happy with the progress !

United States on Feb 19, 2024

Terry Phillips: It takes you past all the books and helps to understand how the fretboard is laid out.
Like you said take the time to play around understanding what keys mix well together.
Thank you for showing me how to understand what was a nightmare.

United States on Feb 18, 2024

Jim Short: I've been working this book for five minutes a day for about two weeks. At five minutes a day, 24 hours is 288 days. I'll definitely have the fretboard memorized by then! The book explains some basic things about how the fretboard is laid out, and then provides various methods to find notes relative to other notes. I already knew quite a bit of it but the full set of "tricks" is very powerful. At first it's just how to find out what a note is based on relation to other notes but after a while I'm just knowing them all. I'm stoked.

United States on Jan 04, 2024

Hell Run: I consider this book a good investment, for novices, like me. Of course, if you are a musician with some experience, probably this book will not add anything to you, as a guitarist. But that’s not my case and thousands more. That’s why every publication has a target audience.
This is not the holy grail to control a guitar. But it is one of the main components, at least for me, because besides being able to do things, I like to understand the mechanics behind. And that’s what this book explains: using some almost childish tricks (I still remember the “Goat Ate the Bag” thing 😁) it does what it says: gives you simple tools to quickly understand the musical organization of a fretboard. It is something that sooner or later, anyone interested in playing a guitar, will miss. In 24 hours? Well, considering that anyone committed to learn how to play an instrument, should dedicate at least one hour per day, I would say that it will take less than the 24h. But it’s better to go slowly and ensure that each stage is well understood. That will pay. I recommend this book to all the novices in this subject.

Spain on Dec 05, 2023

ATP: First I would like to say that I rarely write reviews, however that being said I believe that when something is worthy of recognition and useful to its audience by aiding others such as myself then it deserves a positive review and then some.
I have been playing guitar for 40 years repeating most of the same bad habits and errors and same old chords and riffs reworked every which way I knew how and always feeling a little lost as to what I was really playing and while I could hear proper progressions in my head I would be fumbling all over the fret board finding those notes and being most unsatisfied losing the melody in the process and then being accepting of my limitations just would move on repeating all over again. TILL NOW!
In the last year I also began playing piano and because of it's linear layout it made it much clearer to understand music but guitar was still a mess of confusion being that the fret board is by no means clearly logical at first glance as a piano layout is. So I ordered this book expecting no more than the many other books I attempted to learn from over the years and at best hoped for a droplet or two of new knowledge. Much to my surprise within only...

Canada on Dec 31, 2021

TheCreativeSouls: It starts easy and sounds logic. It gave me very handy tricks to memorize the Fretboard. It helps a great deal in analysing songs.

Germany on Nov 17, 2020

Yaqui Andrés Martínez: Very easy and good book.
With exercises and tips very useful!

Mexico on Jan 26, 2019