Re: Something I just noticed on studying the freboard.
The more you become familiar with the fretboard the more of these and other relationships you will see, learn, and memorize. It's part of learning the instrument. Sometime soon someone will ppost a diagram of the fretboard with all the notes named, and you can just stare at that until you see patterns emerge. The most useful ones are scales, of course, and the pentatonic scale, which you will use again and again, looks like
5-X-6-X-X-8
1-X-2-X-3-X
Fretbear alluded to that (where 1 and 8 are the same note, an octave apart). Occasionally I use a double octave effect for G and D notes, playing the open string plus an octave above and an octave above that - one string up, five frets up, then again. If done emphatically it's pretty ear-catching; if done subtly it can be a drone. And a darned good intonation check.
But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. - Dennis Miller
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