The Ultimate Guitar Fretboard Note Memorization Course (Udemy.com)
Learn every note on your guitar fretboard using the most simple and effective fretboard memorization program!
Created by: Mark Shian
Last updated April 2026
What you will learn
- The main goal of this course is to help you learn every single note on your fretboard in a few short weeks
- You will learn a unique modern method to help you visualize and memorize your entire fretboard
- This will be the most logical and effective fretboard memorization course you'll find on the internet
- You will be given an intuitive set of exercises to help you ingrain the notes into your memory one step at a time
- Knowing your notes will allow you to access chords and scales anywhere on the fretboard
- Upon completion of this course you will know every note on your fretboard
How it compares
Against the other 183 rated Udemy courses in Guitar on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 27% of them
- Reviews273#64 of 184 by number of reviews
- Length2.2 hoursshorter than 70% of them
- Last updatedApril 2026more recently than 92% of them
Course Description
The Ultimate Guitar Fretboard Memorization Course is a program designed to help guitar players memorize their entire fretboard within a few short weeks.
Learning the notes on your fretboard is one of the hardest things that a guitar player has to accomplish to be able to get to more advanced levels of playing. Your ability to play solos, scales, and chords all over the fretboard are all dependent on your knowledge and understanding of where your notes are.
In my journey of learning how to memorize my fretboard, I was really surprised to not be able to find any courses online teaching you how to memorize your fretboard considering it probably is one of the most difficult and fundamentally important aspects of guitar playing.
As far as I know, this is the only online fretboard memorization course that I'm aware of. And the very best!
This fretboard memorization program is something I initially created for myself to help me learn every single note in record time. When I started teaching, I took the program and taught it to all my students and it worked for them successfully. My youngest student is 10 years old and he was able to learn every note on his fretboard within a few short weeks.
The program is logical and is designed in such a way to make memorizing your fretboard as simple and effective as possible.
I've spent countless hours figuring out the best way to go about it and creating a program with the most simple yet intuitive exercises that will help you ingrain the position of all the notes into your memory.
You will first learn the method and a basic understanding of how the fretboard works and then you'll jump straight in to doing the exercises to begin your journey of memorizing your whole fretboard.
I truly hope this will be a breakthrough guitar course for those of you who have tried to learn the notes on your fretboard for years on end and have not been successful. I'm pretty sure that if you follow the program and do the exercises, you will know your entire fretboard within a few short weeks.
Learning every single note on your guitar will take your ability to navigate the fretboard to a whole new level. You will gain complete access to chords and scales from being able to access "root notes" all over the fretboard.
I'm excited about the release of this new course and I look forward to hearing all your testimonies!
Great Blessings,
Mark
Instructor Details
- 4.5 Rating
273 Reviews
Mark Shian
Mark Shian is a musician, teacher, recording engineer, and recording artist based in Ellenton, FL. Mark had quite a journey in his music career having trained in classical, blues, and jazz. He eventually decided to focus on his passion in modern contemporary and worship music. His long and difficult journey of discovering his musical identity and learning all the tools needed to launch his music led him to create courses to help people shorten the process of reaching their musical goals and dreams. His courses are known to take the average musician from beginner to professional levels in a very short period of time compared to classical and conventional music education. He teaches primarily based on the understanding that people ultimately want to be able to discover their greatest potential to express their hearts through music. In light of this, his teaching style is more focused towards accomplishing the goal of musical expression instead of excessive focus on music theory or scales. His courses all include foundational levels to help students understand important basic theory fundamentals to prepare them for the completion of the course. The teachings that follow are usually musically empowering and special in its approach to helping students adopt concepts that set them above the crowd. Mark's courses represent some of the best accelerated music courses found on the internet.
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Reviews
By Bobby Ringuet on 7/31/2026
One of the best course I bought on Udemy. Very liked the section 6 (3 notes exercises), it help me a lot. I don't know the fretboard absolutely well but relatively well :) Night and day compare to before, I'm very happy. Bobby
By Henk-Jan ten Klooster on 8/13/2025
Zeer nauwkeurig en gedetailleerde cursus. Rustige en duidelijke uitleg en zeer informatief. Ik had al wat kennis, maar ik kon niet elke noot/toon benoemen. Maar met de extra oefeningen krijg ik dit steeds meer onder de knie. Ik ben nu halverwege maar weet zeker dat ik straks alle noten direct kan benoemen. Top!
By Heather Baddley on 6/23/2025
This course is teaching me what I have long tried to learn and previously failed to do so. I'm a former bass player with a band, and I knew enough to play the bass well; but I'm also a guitarist, and my bandmate told me I have to learn the notes. It's not easy when you have no system. Now I am learning amazing things that I never discovered on my own! It's so much easier this way. Thank you!
By Jones Nelson on 3/12/2025
This is my second course that I purchased from this teacher…He is awesome. I’ve been playing guitar for almost 30 years and have struggled with learning theory, but he makes it so easy. He finally got through to me. Thank you…it feels great to be able to start knowing what I’m actually playing around the neck!
By Paul Shoemaker on 1/2/2025
Great I like how it moves along quickly and it isn’t perfectly polished. You can tell by the way that he speaks that he’s excited about what he’s teaching and he’s maybe new at teaching, but I have to say I think he has something and I look forward to learning more.. I do play the piano and it really helps her try to visualize the keys on the piano as to the frets on the guitar.
By jorvest walker on 8/18/2024
He’s nothing teaching the f notes slow enough
By Steven Battersby on 7/26/2024
Useful exercises to push to the next level and master the fret board. Gave me the push needed to advance from top 2 strings the whole way through and consider the notes I am playing much more. Will take a lot of time to fully master this so it is second nature but will be using these exercises to help.
By Atari Saint on 7/26/2024
Mark is a unique presence online. You can just connect with his in all his courses. This course is the way to learn all notes on the fretboard. It works. Follow it step by step, only go to the next video when truly ready. When time comes you play notes sequentially, each on a different string, you will not believe it. Here, Mark delivered THE BEST way for this. Thank you Mark.
By Paweł Radziszewski on 1/23/2024
Mark Shian presents truly ingenious methods and types of exercises that are incredibly demanding but, as a result, highly effective. By combining this course with the interval repetition program - Anki, I was able to learn as efficiently as possible. The course is absolutely flawless, and the instructor is absolutely brilliant. Purchasing more of Mark's courses in the future is merely a formality.
By Gayatri on 5/5/2022
Thank you so much Mark for this wonderful course. It really helped me locating the notes on fretboard. It helped me so much that I bought your Solo Mastery and Chords Mastery course. Mark's course is a boon for all guitar learners coz they are so well articulated and structured. Keep up the good work, thanks!
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Overall Score : 90 / 100









