the only thing on learning your fretboard i have seen that is actually a system, as opposed to a couple of tricks or just rote memorization. it isn’t an overnite thing but the approach is interesting. and if you’re nervous about putting in your email i have done it, i did receive the free pdf book (and no it is not strictly needed) and no he did not bombard me with spam.
THAT is badass! Keep it up!
I was taught to use the Random Scale Machine. Generate a list, time myself (and record video), and practice every string until I could name all the notes for each string in 22 seconds. It is a massive help. At first it seems impossible, but give it a couple weeks, just start every practice with that. And record it in a journal.
Silly Canadian.
Us Americans know this simply isn’t true anymore. 
The Onion is so screwed.
Holy crap, how did this topic become so polarizing. A few remarks on my A-Ha moment and suddenly there’s discussion on slow learners that quickly devolved to something politically motivated.
Good grief! Sorry I brought it up!
I felt the same way! Now I’m on module 8 and always learning something new. I wish I had BassBuzz back in the nineties. (Or the internet but I digress.)
I’m doing the same thing. Maybe we need a new topic about “Post BassBuzz Continuing Education.”
I wish there was an app for this site!
Derailing threads is a specialty here… and possible an inevitable consequence of NOT having scholarly debates, but rather stream-of-consciousness type discussions.
Strong, collective forces ususally bring the thread back on track (eventually) 
As for the original topic:
A strong help in learning is actually saying out loud the name of the note that you are finding all over the fretboard. So, as you find all G’s, whenever you fret and plug one of those G’s, say out loud “G”, and so on with the other notes.
Sounds silly, I know, but it reinforces the knowledge of where a G resides in the brain.
Totally agree.
I found that going through the TalkingBass Chord Tones course resulted in memorizing the fretboard, and learning all the triads and arpeggios as well. You don’t necessarily have to take that course, you could just walk through every possible triad and arpeggio everywhere possible on the fretboard, and as was stated earlier in this thread…say the name of the note out loud, it really helps to cement things into your memory. This kind of kills two birds with one stone.
Wasn’t political at all, was a joke, all in good fun, with my pal @Barney
Remember folks, you are allowed to have fun in life.
Couldn’t have said it better.
This is a classic approach to learning the fretboard and it works. It takes time and effort, but anything worth doing is worth doing well. Good reminder, @joerg.
