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How to memorize the fretboard
Why do so many guitar players resist learning the notes on the fretboard? This is my most complex set of animations so far, built in service of the simplest topic I’ve covered to date: how to learn the notes of the fretboard efficiently, and working on recall speed as a key enabler for improvisation.
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The modes explained clearly
What are the major scale modes? How do they relate to the pentatonic scale? What on earth is “brightness ordering”? All this and more are explained herein!
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Learn the blues scale across the fretboard in under a minute
If you know the right way of thinking about the penatonic scale, learning the blues scale couldn’t be easier.
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The rectangle and the stack: reimagining the pentatonic scale
A new way to visualize and navigate pentatonic scales across the entire fretboard, with 85% less memorization than the CAGED system.
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A hierarchy of notes
Many guitarists learn and memorize diatonic scales, pentatonic scales, and triad arpeggios as three separate concepts, but they are intimately related, and it’s beneficial to learn each as an overlay on the next.
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Break into the box
“The Rectangle” is a handy place to access all seven diatonic modes in a four-fret span on just two strings.
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Hiding in plain sight
The link between pentatonic scales and the diatonic modes has been staring you in the face all along. And it’s both the key to quickly pivoting from one scale to another and an easy way to add color to your pentatonic soloing.
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Learn to go from 3nps to “in-position” scales in 1 minute
If you know 3nps, now you also know your “in-position” scales.
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The geometry of standard tuning
Understand and visualize the ways that geometric patterns move around the guitar fretboard in standard tuning.
Fret Science 