Maybe it acually requires a childhood of learing to fill it in?
Does anyone who plays an instrument with less notes have anything to say?
I think perhaps learning a few words/phrases is the way to go?
A lick here, a lick there.
learning short licks,/ phrases is the way to learn the langudge of guitar.
Don’t most lessons start with “first position,” where each note has exactly one location? Then, they add second position, and so forth, going up the neck in strips?
I used to teach guitar, and that’s not how I would teach it.
I’d teach them some basic fretboard visualization using the position markers on the side or on the front.
First dot is G, second is A, third is B, fourth is C#/Db, the double dot is the 12th fret, a higher copy of the open strings as that’s the octave, the one after that is G, second is A, third is B, fourth is C#/Db, and if you have a 24 fret guitar, the second double dot is the octave, E, again.
Then do it on the A string.
First dot is C, second is D, third is E, fourth is F#/Gb, the double dot is the octave, A again. First dot after it is C, second is D, third is E, fourth is F#/Gb, and the second double dot is the octave A again.
Then I taught the Octave Trick, which is picking a note on the G or D strings and figure it out.
Example: 9th fret, G string. Well, let’s go down two frets to the 7th fret, then down two strings to land on the third dot on the A string, which we know is the note E.
If figuring one out on the B string, go down three frets, then down two strings.
If figuring one out on the high E string, no need, as the high E is just a higher octave copy of the low E. Whatever big brother can do, little brother can do too.
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