WHY Learn the NOTES?

Pianists know the note names of their keys — so why don't we know the note names of our frets?

Learning the note names of our frets helps us to go beyond shapes. We'll always use the shapes, but after learning the notes they are built from — we can start to understand how those shapes came to be, and how to change them (if we want to.)

Below are videos for finding single notes on the fretboard.