Mystique1721
bass solo, take one
Do you people really memorize them like vocabulary? That must be a pain in the ass... I like learning by doing. I suggest: take the notes of a standard with a lot of notes (Donna Lee), transfer it on guitar with all the possibilities to play (one of the advantages of notes over tabs: more freedom)... BINGO you just learned many notes AND a cool standard.
not really like vocabulary, but kinda. Like what I did last year was print out like 10 copies of a fretboard, and then I would sit in class (instead of paying attention to the professor ) and go through and write out all the notes on the fretboard. Llike first I would start out with all the As, then do the Bs, then the Cs, etc. So I memorized it like that. and then I would also call the notes aloud during practice sometimes. Like go in the order of the circle of fifths. Find all the Cs on all the strings, then find all the Gs, etc. That method worked for me.