do scales up one string and then scales across the strings. So your getting a 2 for 1
As William says there are patterns to this. .
First you'll do the patterns then the various notes begin to stick.
When learning one string at a time just learn the main notes. ABCD etc the sharps and flats will fall in to place as you go on.
Learn the dot positions on the D string then maybe the notes across the dots. As you move on you begin to move back or forward from the reference points which stick first in your mind.
Do your alphabet in the first four frets. Starting on low E, EFG, then ABC , DEF, GA , BCD and then your back to EFG
Pick a note on a string and learn how to find it on the next string up, then your alphabet can continue until you decide to move up a string again.
There is a fretboard game in the tool section which might help but whichever way you learn has to be brought to the actual guitar fretboard.
It does slowly sink in. Don't let the speed of improvement get you down. It is a long steady process
Dave L
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