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  • How to memorize the fretboard

    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.

    Keith

    December 29, 2023
    Uncategorized
    fretboard, guitar, patterns, philosophy
  • Master the modes tonight

    Master the modes tonight

    Learn the simple five-string pattern that completely unlocks the modes across the entire fretboard.

    Keith

    January 2, 2023
    Uncategorized
    diatonic modes, patterns, pentatonic scale, scales, video
  • Learn the best way to visualize chords and scales and move them across the fretboard

    Learn the best way to visualize chords and scales and move them across the fretboard

    How does the quirky tuning of the G and B strings affect scales and chords? Learn to traverse “the warp” and use the circle of fifths to navigate the fretboard with 80% less memorization. See how it applies to triads, the pentatonic scale, and soloing in the blues.

    Keith

    December 16, 2022
    Uncategorized
    patterns, pentatonic scale, video
  • Hiding in plain sight

    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.

    Keith

    October 16, 2022
    Uncategorized
    3nps, diatonic modes, fretboard, guitar, modes, patterns, pentatonic scale, scales
  • The geometry of standard tuning

    The geometry of standard tuning

    Understand and visualize the ways that geometric patterns move around the guitar fretboard in standard tuning.

    Keith

    September 26, 2022
    Uncategorized
    fretboard, guitar, patterns, standard tuning
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