A short history about The Guitar In Color. In 1997, just a few years after picking up the guitar, I placed individual white stickers on every fret on my guitar. On each of these stickers I marked (in black ball point pen) the note name that matched the fret it was stuck to ( E / F / F# / G / G# etc.) It helped for a few days, but as excited as I was to clarify this instrument's fretboard, it was still all a jumble when I looked quickly down at it for reference. So I peeled off the sharp and flat notes - my eyes had less to process that way. I also knew my brain would fill in the missing notes, since there’s always a flat or sharp between two natural notes. This helped even more, but my eyes were not grabbing the written notes easily enough. So, I added color to the stickers, and soon dropped the note names entirely. Maybe I peeled them off soon after a guitar player in another band scoffed at my colorful fretboard. Either way, I ended up liking the colors on paper as a reference and being less dependent on the colors themselves. This method was never really about remembering the colors, but using them to clarify the fretboard, and music theory with it. In 2019 I published The Guitar In Color, an e-book resource. And now, in 2026, I have come up with (I thank God for the nudge) a really simple way to help solidify this color system. Keep an ear/eye out for it soon!