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 every note on the guitar fretboard to find notes, chords and scales and be creative in any position, without wasting valuable time.
The Problem:
If you are anything like I was, you might get a headache just thinking about remembering all of those notes. Getting to know all of the fretboard notes may just seem too hard or boring.
The Solution:
This course will show you how to make learning the fretboard easy and fun too!
In the same way that you know how to get to local shops, the library and schools where you live, you can get to know the fretboard too. Places have meaning to us, so if we attach meaning to fretboard locations then it’s easy to remember them. I’ll show you how that works.
The Benefits:
Learning to instantly recognize notes now can save you many hours and allow you to advance your playing skills more quickly.
I learned classical guitar from 8 years old and became very comfortable playing notes in open position. However, as I ventured up the fretboard I must have accumulated hours of wasted time hunting for notes and getting frustrated instead of practicing.
Learning the fretboard thoroughly is one of the best investments you can make in your playing and should be one of the highest priorities to help to take your playing to a new level.
Methods Used in the Course:
"Travel" around the fretboard to various locations. You'll not only learn patterns and relationships, but you'll get to know unique fretboard locations that have a story to them.
While commuting to work or school, listen to downloadable audio files to further increase your fretboard knowledge.
Do simple exercises on or away from the guitar that let you develop and measure your fretboard knowledge.
These methods worked for me and I’ve successfully used them to teach many guitar students.
They can work for you too! Let me show you how.
Who this course is for:
- Anyone wanting 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.
- Players with basic music reading skills (although it's not required), who want to easily find and read notes in all positions.
- Players who've 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
- Preview04:00
- 02:10Let's just make sure that we are speaking the same language
- Preview00:44
- 05:34Take the mystery out of scales and chords and make learning the fretboard easier
- 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}
- 4.6 Instructor Rating
- 102 Reviews
- 4,951 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.