I've found a few good exercises on learning the fretboard via scales on wholenote.com. The lesson I'm working on is using intervals of the F maj scale. I'm actually surprised how I can now noodle around almost anywhere on the first two strings and actually stay in the F maj key just by "seeing" the notes. The problem I'm running into is there termonology when using intervals. Back in the day when I was but a young lad and taking lessons, my teacher briefly hit on this subject. Unfortunately all I really know is how to do intervals of three with box patters, such as taking, say, A maj 5th position and going 1-2-3-2-3-4-3-4-5 and so on.
The exercise I'm working on looks like this:
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1------3---5---6---8-10-------------13---------
--1--3---5---6---8-------10-11-13-------------
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They say that this is an interval of fourths. To make it easier, I wrote out the F maj scale like this:
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F - G - A - Bb - C - D - E - F
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1
but for some reason I still just can't wrap my head around it. Can anyone help me visualize this in a better way(i.e. dumb it down)?