• Ist Position
  
• 5th Position
  
• 9th Position

Here’s a useful freebie – downloadable and printable PDFs Flash Cards! Print them out using both sides of an A4 size card, then simply cut out the individual cards. I like to print out the cards for each position on different coloured card paper so as to have three easily distinguished suites for each position. You’ll find using these cards a great way to help memorise the notes. Start with the notes in 1st position and then, once you’re familiar with these, try the more challenging cards in 5th and 9th positions; these three positions cover the whole of the guitar neck up to the 12th fret. So come on, what are you waiting for? See how quickly you can learn all of the cards to become a Flash Card master! 

Flash Card Games

1) Say it and Play it! – Name the notes and then play them. 
2) Against the Clock – How many notes can you say and play in 1 minute? (or how about 30 seconds?)
3) Make up Words – e.g. BADGE, FEED, EGG
4) Find the Notes – Find the notes with the same letter name.
5) ‘Flash!’ – Play against a friend. The person who can ‘Say it and Play it’ first wins the card. If one says it and the other plays it, it’s a draw and you go on to the next card. The winner is the person who wins most or all of the cards.
6) Shuffle and Play! – Shuffle the cards and then lay them out in a line with the notes on the stave facing up. Play the notes one after the other as smoothly as possible to make a tune. How quickly can you play the tune?
7) Sing the Notes – Use the flash cards to help develop your sense of pitch. Sing the notes on each card and then play them to see if your pitching is correct.

Practising Flash Cards on the Internet

www.theviolincase.com/Flashcards   Even though it’s meant for violin it still works for the guitar. This is a simple and effective flash card site.
www.musictheory.net  The whole of this site is brilliant, one of the very best, but the note and guitar trainers are especially useful for giving valuable flash card style practice. You can even download the whole site and practise the exercises offline. Absolutely marvellous!
www.musicards.net/music_flash_cards/read_guitar_notes.html   This flash card site teaches you the notes in first position, and also shows you where to play them on the guitar neck.