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How to (Finally) Learn Your Fretboard (Part 7)

In Part 7 of our series on how to learn the fretboard, we turn our attention to major chords and […]

Let’s continue our analysis by looking at more complex chords and their corresponding intervals. Minor 7 chords contain the intervals […]

I recently had a request for some 3NPS diminished scale patterns of the half-whole and whole-half variety. If you’ve ever […]

You’ve reached the turning point! If you’ve been practicing the material in the previous parts, and depending on how long […]

Read Part 3 here. The Perfect 4thThe perfect 4th is the ‘Smoke on the Water’ interval, where it’s used to […]

Check out Part 2 here. 3 and 7 Combinations IIWe need to be fluent in recognizing intervals going in all […]

Check out Part 1 here. In practice, we use a combination of note names and intervals to navigate the fretboard. […]

As you’ve probably got a lot of time on your hands (coronavirus quarantine/lockdown at the time of writing), why not […]

A while ago we took advantage of the top three strings of the guitar in standard tuning to come up […]

A lot of players get to the point where they’ve learned their scale patterns, be they CAGED, 3NPS patterns, my […]