If we continue to look at the guitar neck as if we are sitting in the audience nothing much will ever be revealed; what we need to do is get behind the eye balls of the professional player to see how they view the fretboard.
From the audience perspective all you can ever see is six silver strings however, when you are viewing the fretboard through the eyes of a professional guitarist it the neck takes on a whole new accelerated learning experience.
Although there seems to be lots of notes on your guitar the good news is that many of the notes are duplicated on multiple strings and fret positions.
A great way to become aware of this is to create your very own pitch graph like this: How To Create Your Pitch Graph (a) grab some colored pens (fluro pens are my favorite) (b) rule up six lines across the page to represent the six strings of the guitar (c) mark in twelve frets and we're ready to go! (d) color the first string yellow (e) color the second string yellow at the fifth fret onwards to the twelfth fret (f) color the third string yellow at the ninth fret onwards to the twelfth (g) next, mark the second string using a green pen from the open second string to the fourth fret (h) mark the third string green at the fourth fret to fret eight (i) color the fourth string green at fret nine to the twelfth fret (j) mark the third string with an orange pen from the open string to the fourth (k) moving over to string four mark the fifth to the twelfth with the orange pen (l) color string five at the tenth to twelfth with orange (m) now it's over to string four open to the fourth fret with a blue pen (n) color string five at the fifth to twelfth with blue (o) string six from tenth to twelfth as blue Nearly finished..
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(p) mark the fifth string open to fifth with red (q) string six, fifth to ninth is also in red Now you have a very colorful guitar fretboard that will give you a visual layout of how the fingerboard is viewed by a seasoned player.
Pitch graph concept: same color = same pitch The idea is to show you that strings marked with the same color equals notes of the same pitch e.
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, the pitch of the first string is duplicated on the second string at the fifth to twelfth frets; it is also duplicated on the third string at the ninth to twelfth frets.
You can use any colors have fun and be creative and most of all enjoy exploring the fretboard looking and listening for duplicated notes.