12-PDF Fundamentals Bundle
Twelve printable cheat-sheets — fretboard maps, scale shapes, and reference charts to keep by your side while you practice.
Both handednesses, yours to keep — one payment, no membership needed.
Every PDF here is also included with Fret Science Gold — along with the rest of the membership.
2 of the 12 are free, PDF and all — start with Building Fretboard Fluency, The Big Picture and Rectangle and Stack.
Resources
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Resources
(13)- All 12 handouts (.zip)🔒 Gold
- 01 — Building Fretboard Fluency, The Big Picture🔒 Free
- 02 — Eliminate 80% of Scale Memorization🔒 Gold
- 03 — Rectangle and Stack🔒 Free
- 04 — How to Memorize the Fretboard🔒 Gold
- 05 — Intervals and Chord Voicings🔒 Gold
- 06 — The Modes Explained Clearly🔒 Gold
- 07 — Hidden in Plain Sight🔒 Gold
- 08 — Unlock the Modes🔒 Gold
- 09 — Smokin' Fast Modes🔒 Gold
- 10 — CAGED and Triads Simplified🔒 Gold
- 11 — 3NPS Is Not Just for Shredders🔒 Gold
- 12 — Instant Harmony🔒 Gold
Watch in order
Each handout has a companion video, and they build on each other in this order. All twelve are free to watch — sign in and they play ad-free right on the lesson page.
- 1
How CAGED, 3NPS, pentatonics, triads, and the modes all connect into one picture of the fretboard. Start here — it's the guide to everything that follows.
- 2
Why the G and B strings warp every shape you learn, and how to use the circle of fifths to navigate the fretboard with 80% less memorization.
- 3Rectangle and Stack10:38
Two simple shapes that recreate the major and minor pentatonic anywhere on the neck, and turn into blues and hexatonic scales on demand. This is the foundation the rest of Fret Science is built on.
- 4
Three ways to think about the note names, plus four exercises that build fast recall. The highest-leverage thing on this list to actually practice — and the free Fretboard Trainer on this site turns those exercises into a game.
- 5
A simple counting trick that identifies any interval on the fretboard — and turns any chord voicing into something you can read at a glance.
- 6
What the major scale modes actually are, how they relate to the pentatonic scale, and what brightness ordering means.
- 7
If you already know the pentatonic scale, the modes are hiding in it. Once you see how they fit together, you can't unsee it.
- 8Unlock the Modes8:16
All seven modes come out of one five-string repeating pattern — far less to memorize, and an easy switch back to the related pentatonic.
- 9
The very first Fret Science video: reaching the modes straight from pentatonic shapes you already know. Rough around the edges, but the idea holds up.
- 10
CAGED rebuilt from the ground up with animated building blocks — triads first, then pentatonics, then the modes on top.
- 11
The three-notes-per-string system with 85% less memorization, so you can move freely up and down the neck and always know where you are.
- 12Instant Harmony15:54
How to build the harmonized guitar lines behind everything from the Beatles to Nuno Bettencourt, with just enough theory to get going.