Guitar Fretboard Secrets
What you'll learn
- Easily identify and play notes and chords over the entire fretboard.
- Move scales and chords around to all positions.
- Put your finger on the right note first time!...anywhere on the fretboard.
- Discover cool things about music from the fretboard.
Requirements
- Know how to play basic chords in open position.
- Know (or be willing to learn) a couple of major scales and their note names in open position (review section included).
- Be ready to invest regular practice and study of the course material.
Description
Goal:
Easily remember notes, anywhere on the guitar fretboard
Find notes, chords and scales without using the "hunt and peck" method
Go directly to any position and play in any key that you choose
The Problem:
If you are anything like I was, you may get a headache just thinking about remembering all of those fretboard notes. Getting to know fretboard notes may just seem too hard or boring.
The Solution:
This course shows you how to make learning the fretboard easy, and fun too!
You'll learn the fretboard in the same way that you learned your way to the local market, the library and schools where you live. Just as you attach meaning to places, you can attach meaning to fretboard locations that are easy to remember. Start to identify notes with the exercises in this course, and soon you'll find yourself identifying notes without thinking about it.
The Benefits:
Learning to instantly recognize notes now can save you many hours in the future and allow you to advance your playing skills more quickly.
I learned classical guitar from 8 years old and in the beginning became very comfortable playing notes in first, or open position. However, as I ventured up the fretboard I wasted time hunting for notes and often becoming frustrated instead of practicing.
Learning the fretboard thoroughly is one of the best investments you can make in your playing. It should be one of the highest priorities to help take your playing to a new level.
What you will Learn:
First, we look at notes that you already know to start building on that knowledge. Then, we "travel" around the fretboard to various locations and get to know the notes there. You'll not only learn patterns and relationships, but will get to know fretboard locations with a story to them.
At each step on the journey you practice identifying the notes that you've learned. You can even do this away from the course while commuting to work or school. Listen to downloadable audio files that will help to keep you thinking about the fretboard. This kind of attention will increase your fretboard knowledge.
Once you can identify notes it's important to lock in that knowledge. Continue through the course to look at the relationship between chords and scales in various positions. Then take the next step and learn triads and inversions around the fretboard.
This method worked for me, and I’ve successfully used it to teach many guitar students.
Join the course, don't delay, be your fretboard's boss today!
Who this course is for:
- Anyone wants to know the shortcuts to visualizing notes on the entire fretboard.
- Anyone who wants to easily find and play chords and scales along the entire fretboard.
- Anyone with basic music reading skills (NOT REQUIRED), who wants to identify notes in all positions.
- Players who have found other fretboard courses too complicated who now want to know the easy steps to mastering the entire fretboard.
- This course is NOT for someone without basic knowledge. It builds on a foundation of some basic chords and scales.
- This course is NOT focused on technique - it's about planting a mental roadmap of the fretboard in your mind.
Course content
- Preview04:10
- 01:37Which way is up?
- 03:48What you should know first
- 04:10Demystify Scales, Chords & Intervals
- 00:40The one key scale to knowing the entire fretboard.
- 01:12Oh G! Is that all there is to it?
Instructor
![John Chamley](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 113 Reviews
- 5,291 Students
- 6 Courses
Back in 2000 I started to teach guitar to my kids. That sparked a renewed interest in playing music again for me. I worked hard to regain my roots in classical guitar and started playing in bands again. This time it was church bands.
Since 2000 I've taught at private music studios, given group classes and in-home lessons. I've also played regularly in church bands. Although my Bachelor's is in Engineering I've taken private lessons with various top music professionals. I also have a Music Theory Certificate from Berklee College's Online Campus.
As well as playing and teaching guitar, I wrote the 3-book series that has all of the essentials to take a well rounded approach to learning guitar.
"Guitar in Real Time" books cover multiple genres, music reading and essential theory, as well as basic music composition. Until these books were released, this kind of broad content was unavailable in a such a convenient form.
"Learn Fingerstyle Guitar & Music Reading" on Udemy is based on my Level 1 book. Other courses that I've created on Udemy use some of the content from those books and expand on it.
Music is my passion and I especially enjoy teaching young people, who I try to have a positive influence on. This Udemy format is excellent because it forces me to work at presenting things in the best possible way for others to understand.
I'm happy to share what I have to offer with others who are as passionate as I am about this instrument.