If you're looking for a fast and easy Guitar neck workout that you can do in about two minutes at home every single day (even with No Guitar), then this is the exercise for you. This guitar neck exercise is one that you simply cannot skip because it covers multiple musical ideas in a very simple way to get you learning your guitar neck plus a whole lot more at the same time...




In this lesson, I’m going to show you how to perform one of the best "music staff to guitar neck," exercises I've ever come across. It will help you to improve your; note knowledge, note names (to the neck), note layout on the neck, and it will also help you to better understand; keys, scales and tonal range.

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What are we talking about here today? Well it’s one of my favorite things – a guitar neck exercise. And, you guys know that I believe this is something that you cannot skip out on because if you don’t understand your guitar neck how are you ever going to be proficient at rhythm or lead guitar?

I know that learning one of your favorite songs or practicing a guitar solo is perhaps more fun, but neck learning doesn’t have to go by the way-side. 

In this lesson, were going to learn a quick exercise that won’t take you more than about two minutes and you’ll get better at locating your notes both on the neck as well as on a sheet of traditional music notation paper (the music staff).

Let’s get things started by grabbing a sheet of staff paper and establishing a note along within a pre-set range to work in.




EXERCISE - PART 1).
Start with one note, that note will be your Primary tone. We’re going to use the note of “A” and we’ll have it be the “A” note that sits on the 2nd space of the music staff.



From that note, move through the other seven tones of the musical alphabet and write them all down on a piece of sheet music paper, on the music staff.

Underneath, write their names and over top of the notes write their numbers from 1 to 8 (Root to Octave).




Once you have the notes written on the music staff, the next thing you’ll want to do is locate those notes on the guitar neck.

But, when you’re doing this also keep in mind that the music staff is a representation of the range of the pitches. 

If we are focused on using mid-range tones, those tones will be in the middle of the guitar string sets, or in the middle of the fret-board.

Let’s use the neck generator over at the Guitar Scientist website to lay out the tones that we wrote out on the music staff and we’ll get those notes placed onto the fingerboard.





To take this exercise one step further, I’d suggest either on the same day, or on the next day, of doing this exercise, you pick another range for locating the same tonal name.





EXERCISE - PART 2).
In exercise one, we started with the mid-range note of “A” and we located it on the music staff from the 2nd space of the staff. 

Then, we went onto the guitar fret-board and located that “A” note off of the 4th string’s 7th fret. That allowed us to plot out the mid range.

So, our next level of work would be to take that same note of “A” and begin once again over on our sheet of staff paper and plot that “A” tone out from another register. I’m going to build it now from the lower register.



Just like before, start with one note, that note will be the Primary tone. We’ll use the lower range note of “A” (that’s the one on the 2nd ledger line below the staff). 

From that note, we’ll ascend through the other seven tones of the musical alphabet and we’ll write all of them down on our piece of sheet staff paper.




Underneath the notes, write their names and over top of the notes write their numbers from 1 to 8 (Root to Octave). Once you have the notes written on the music staff, the next thing to do is locate those notes on the guitar neck.

Once you’ve completed doing this remember that the music staff is a representation of the range of the pitches. So, if we’re using low-range tones, those tones will be in the lower strings area of the guitar fret-board.

Let’s use the neck generator (over at the Guitar Scientist website once again), to lay out the low-range tones that we wrote on the music staff for that “A” note and we’ll get those notes placed onto the fingerboard.








CONCLUSION:
If you want a quick guitar neck exercise that only takes a couple of minutes a day to do, then this one is fantastic.

It’s not complicated, there’s no technique to learn, you can be a total beginner to do this, and the best thing is you don’t even need a guitar to do this, (just a sheet of music staff paper and maybe access to the internet).

But, the benefits of what you get out of this exercise are well worth the couple of minutes that it takes to do each day. 

You’ll obviously get a better handle on the music staff and the use of notes, but also what’s especially good is that you’ll gain a better comprehension for where notes from off of a music staff go and correspond onto the guitar fingerboard!

The notes we used in this example are from the scale of “A Nat. Minor.” But, going forward you can use other keys and scales and take this exercise to whole new level. 

One that helps you nail-down all types of scale layouts. Plus, you can even use it to memorize all of your Major and Minor key signatures as well.