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1 hour ago, Boodang said:

What ever works for you, so I’m not criticising, but the first thing that was said to me when I had lessons was ‘how many bass players do you know that find a D by going two frets back from the E’! 
A month of doing any note finder exercise will just nail it for life. We’re lucky we can play scales and arpeggios from pattern and just move them around but it so helps if the start points, the notes, are all just instantly visualised.


That's why I said right at the start “People have different ways of learning”.  It’s not a “One size fits all” scenario. 
I find that if you instantly know where to find a named note on the fretboard, the others are easier to locate. 

Learning the circle of 5ths also helps. So if you find that D, you know that the string down from it on the same fret is an A. 

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