If you’re still with me, we’ll dedicate this part to summarizing and consolidating what we’ve learned so far into a usable system that you can implement on the fretboard, rather than worrying about making immense…
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In Part 7, we turn our attention to major chords and scales on our journey to learning the fretboard, which for me means becoming self-sufficient by not relying on patterns and shapes, as you would…
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Let’s continue our analysis by looking at more complex chords and their corresponding intervals. Minor 7 chords contain the intervals 1, ♭3, 5, ♭7 as you can see below. Let’s take a look at our…
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You’ve reached the turning point! If you’ve been practicing the material in the previous parts, and depending on how long you’ve been playing, you’ll most likely have to fight with yourself NOT to revert to…
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Read Part 3 here. The Perfect 4thThe perfect 4th is the ‘Smoke on the Water’ interval, where it’s used to great effect. In a scale, it’s usually an interval you won’t want to spend a…
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Check out Part 2 here. 3 and 7 Combinations IIWe need to be fluent in recognizing intervals going in all directions on the guitar. Take a look at our 3 and 7 interval combinations again,…
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Check out Part 1 here. In practice, we use a combination of note names and intervals to navigate the fretboard. Note names are our GPS: they get us to the right place on the fretboard,…
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As you’ve probably got a lot of time on your hands (coronavirus quarantine/lockdown at the time of writing), why not use it to (finally) learn the fretboard? By learning the fretboard I mean breaking away…
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