Mastering the fretboard using mental maps is, in my opinion, the most effective means to gaining confidence and competence learning the fretboard. By doing so you will learn to integrate more information quickly as compared to looking at an image of the total...
Learn the Note-Layout…understand Music! OK! Let’s admit right up front that many guitarists DO NOT tend to make time learning their fretboard in terms of its note-layout – what I call Fretboard Thought. Why? Simple! Learning the notes on the...
Perceiving the PULSE (some call it the BEAT) of a piece of music is that feature which compels us to tap our feet, clap our hands or even dance. In some way or another, the repetitive nature of the pulse makes us MOVE. This basic reaction to the musical pulse is...
Why Guitarists Avoid Learning the Fretboard! Guitarists seem to have a general disdain for learning the fretboard as apposed to more technical skills like building speed or learning more licks. But that’s not you apparently because you’re reading this and...
What’s up with the way most guitarists learn (or rather don’t learn) rhythm? After having the obligatory “rhythm chat” with hundreds of students (many of whom have had guitar instruction with other teachers prior to me), the resounding overall...
In this episode of WHERE GUITAR STUFF COMES FROM, I explore the well worn Minor Pentatonic Scale so loved by guitarists. As usual, I demonstrate the scale from a linear viewpoint in order to better understand its Interval formula. Also, I introduce some...
