
Beginning the ultimate fretboard journey with your co-captains, Sean and Justin! Learning how to diagnose the name of a note and what the possibilities are from there! Then when you're ready, start trying to play the new arpeggio shapes you've learned over a simple Am to C major backing track!
So we have a few bars of Am and a few bars of C major looped. Practice the arpeggio shapes from the previous lesson and try to land them when the chord changes!
Now that we have a couple shapes down, let's look at where each one goes within the context of a major scale! Work on seeing these 6 chords/shapes within a key as a collective group, then try your hand at the backing track.
So this track is playing the six main chords in the key of C. C major, D minor, E minor, F major, G major and A minor. You'll have time to play an corresponding arpeggio over each chord! Try and keep up! Remember you can always download an .mp3 file of the backing track in the resources section of the previous lecture.
The important concept of this course is being able to understand any of the 12 keys and how the shapes repeat. No we'll be transferring everything we've learned to the People's Key, the key of G.
Try and play along with the chord scale, whether it's with chord voicings or their corresponding arpeggios! We're also adding the diminished chord as the seventh chord in the chord scale to spice it up!
Starting to jam in a more musical way by taking some of the exercises and applying them to an extra saucy chord progression!
Take what you learned in the previous lesson to start attempting to 'play with the changes'. The great thing about all of this being in one key is that you don't always have to land on the chord as it changes for it to sound good!
We're going to start breaking out of shapes that end at the octave and take one A minor arpeggio and span the entire fretboard! Get ready to fly!
No we're adding a major arpeggio shape into the game so you have two to switch back and forth between, further connecting the fretboard.
Take the 2 fretboard spanning arpeggios you've learned and try them over this simple, yet musical, backing track. Even if you don't land on the changes, it'll still sound great so take your time!
Going over how 'intervals' are named in music. Also being able to use them to your advantage and move single notes, along with entire chord progressions together.
Justin gives us some easy patterns on how to learn any note on the fretboard without having to do much memorization.
Finally getting to a point where we can use some of the pentatonic riffs that make guitar so fun! Jamming along to a backing track where the changes are faster, but still simple enough where you won't get lost!
Only two chords but they change rapidly. Try and find a groove into the E minor pentatonic scale, and try working into it from a G major arpeggio.
Justin drops some wisdom on us by giving an amazing exercise to locate and play all the 7th chords in a key, extended the triads we've grown to love!
Welcome to the key of A! Where we take new chord voicings and apply them to the prettiest of all keys using the extended 7th chords we learned in the previous lesson.
Hitting all 7 extended chords in the key of A. Test your skills by playing an A major 7, B minor 7, C# minor 7, D major 7, E dominant 7, F# minor 7, and G# minor 7 flat 5, all in lightning speed order!
Just a couple of seasoned guitar dudes breaking down the fretboard into the most basic building blocks (chords, scales and arpeggios) and then showing how the can unlock the fretboard. Then we show how to use those building blocks and incorporate them into your playing. Loaded with exercises and backing tracks, follow Sean Daniel and Justin Mitchell into the wonderful world of fretboard mastery! Perfect for the absolute beginner to an intermediate player that is looking to put everything together in one fluid class!