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Fret Science: Improv 101
A high level overview and detailed syllabus for the Fret Science: Improv 101 course
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The Dickey Betts hexatonic scale
Jack Ruch is one of my favorite guitar YouTubers because of his beautifully lyrical phrasing and excellent teaching style. He recently released a tribute to the late great Dickey Betts of the Allman Brothers Band, which I highly recommend checking out. I’ll include a link at the end of this lesson, but I think you’ll…
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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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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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