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 of our series on how to learn the fretboard, we turn our attention to major chords and scales on our journey to learning the fretboard, which for me means becoming self-sufficient by…
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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 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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I know it sounds like a gimmicky, clickbait title but if you’ve got 12 days to spare, I’ve come up with a way to learn the notes on the neck which is virtually painless and…
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