New video: see guitar intervals instead of counting them

The new video on guitar intervals is out.

One of my most popular YouTube videos, Intervals: Guitar's Secret Decoder Ring, teaches you to find intervals by counting frets. The method works, but it isn't what I use when I'm playing, and this video shows what I use instead. You learn the interval of ten note positions inside the rectangle and stack, once for the minor pentatonic and once for the major. Every other interval sits one fret away from one of those, so you can name any interval on the neck, in any key, without counting. The last two chapters put it to work on chords: reading the intervals in a chord you already play, and adding a 9 or a 13 to a three-note shell chord without learning a new grip.

Where to go from here

• The lesson page has the video without ads for anyone with a free account, with captions in English, French, Spanish, Korean, and German. The cheat sheet, with every key diagram from the video and a short practice routine, is included with Silver membership and up, on the page and as right- and left-handed PDFs.
• The free tools from the video: the Scale Visualizer draws the rectangle and stack with the interval labels on, in any key. What Chord Is This? names a chord from the notes you click and shows the intervals inside it, which makes it a quick way to check your answers. The Fretboard Trainer drills the note names you need to find a root.
• Creating Chord Voicings with Barre and Shell Chords goes further with shell chords. It's free with an account.
• Improv 101 is where I'd start if you want to turn this into music. Seeing the chord tones of any chord as an overlay on the pentatonic scale is at the heart of the course, and Play the Changes is a new lesson series that puts it to work over real chord progressions.
• Complete Scale Fluency teaches the method from this video as one of its lessons, inside a full system for learning all of your scales across the fretboard.