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I give students a number of exercises for finding notes on the guitar.
The first is to learn where all the E's are all over the fingerboard, on each string. First, sit down and work them out. Practice playing them one after the other up and down the fingerboard. Try this to a metronome (hard!).
The second is to learn all the "white" notes on a particular string (say the E string). By white notes I mean the white notes on a piano, i.e. the ones that correspond to letters without flats or sharps.
Progressively develop this exercise with the other notes and strings (start with E, D, C, A and G for exercise 1, and work your way up the strings for exercise 2), making sure that you still retain memory of where the other notes are. Soon you will find it much easier to find your way around the fingerboard. I still do exercise 1 to warm up sometimes.
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