HOW TO VISUALIZE CHORDS & SCALES: A simple, step-by-step method

[@fretscience]

If you're new to the channel, I'd like to offer a warm welcome! To see how this video fits into the big picture of fretboard understanding, check out this overview video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qqGmYmRrr89-n9k or download a FREE 12-page overview e-book: fretscience.myshopify.com/products/building-fretboard-fluency-the-big-picture-pdf-ebook Individual cheat sheets and a heavily discounted bundle are available for purchase at: fretscience.myshopify.com 🎸🧪🤘

[@boriskrasnov2629]

The animations and diagrams are exactly what my brain needed for it to finally to click after YEARS of not getting it. I just needed an engineer to explain music theory to me. I’m so blown away I spent $30 for all of the cheat sheets on his site, glad I did.

[@fretscience]

Thanks, Boris…much appreciated! 🎸🧪🤘

[@henrymartinez4845]

Best explanation I have ever seen about how to use patterns and scales, everything started clicking!

[@fretscience]

Thanks, Henry…glad it helped! The next video will do the same thing for the major scale modes, although if you want a preview, I’ve written a couple of short articles on this over at fretscience.com

[@JoashMoonsamyHartMedia]

Completely agree. And I’ve been playing for so many years and never understood this

[@michaelgumleyguitar]

and the diagrams help so much too

[@sdubrau]

Same here. Not that I didn't know but just didn't see how you can actually use it efficiently.

[@AirPHX]

Teaching is a art form and not everyone can do it. This guy and channel is by far the absolute best and clearest guitar teacher on KZbin. You have successfully taken the mystery out the guitar fretboard. Thank you so much for making these videos and blog posts. You have made a huge difference in my understanding of the guitar already. Keep up the great work!!!

[@fretscience]

Thanks, Todd…your hyperbole is massively appreciated! 🎸🧪🤘

[@jwilder2251]

This was more useful than 99% of all KZbin videos about the fretboard

[@anonymus3409]

This is the first comment I've ever written simply because you changed my (guitar) life. I couldn't memorise the patterns for over a month, but it just clicked with the video. Thank you so much!!!

[@fretscience]

Glad I could help! 🎸🧪🤘

[@cratecruncher6687]

SUBSCRIBED!!! I'm tired of the dull memorization pedagogy so prevalent in the music realm. Lay it down for a month and it's gone. I went into engineering to avoid memorizing stuff. I like a set of basic laws/principles I can rearrange and stack into infinite permutations.

[@fretscience]

Bingo! I’m sure that in the time I spent figuring out ways to avoid memorizing this stuff, I could have become a much better player, but now hopefully these ideas can flatten the curve for everyone who’s still learning the fretboard.

[@basilwendel1966]

Only commented on videos a handful of times over the last 20 years, but want to extend my deepest gratitude for these amazing lessons. Been studying each of these videos and am now finding fretboard theory so enjoyable to learn. Thank you.

[@fretscience]

❤️❤️❤️

[@matthewg4882]

This clicked for me for the first time last year and i have never seen someone explain it on youtube so clearly. Once i realized the tuning system was like "software" for guitar, you load up a tuning system and that produces all the shapes of chords/scales everything made sense. Thanks for this, going to be showing this to anyone that wants to start learning guitar.

[@fretscience]

Thanks, Matthew! I haven’t done a video on it yet, but I agree about the tuning system analogy, and the same approach gives interesting insights into drop-D and DADGAD tunings.

[@michaelkrailo5725]

I had to rewind several sections quite a few times to make sure I was getting it but this is incredible. It's fairly easy to memorize that circle of 4th's pattern and seeing how shifting that pentatonic up goes to the fourth chord and down one goes to the fifth was eye opening. You also cleared up a confusion about 4ths and 5ths as it relates to semi tones. That's an important basic thing that should be taught and understood early on. Thanks for making this.

[@fretscience]

Thanks, Michael…much appreciated!

[@huder67]

dido!

[@iggykarpov]

​@huder67 you either missed letter 'l' or need 'tt' in place of the second 'd'. I bet on the latter. 😂

[@eduardorodriguez4899]

The triads explanation blew my mind!

[@thoughtprovoking001]

I can't thank you enough for this. I already understood the circle of 5ths on the fretboard but I didn't mentally connect the pentatonic positions relative to the circle of fifths. This is gold! 👍

[@fretscience]

Awesome, you’re welcome. The next video will do the same thing for the major scale modes…coming soon 🎸🧪🤘

[@tomnguyen6839]

Subbed. Watched all of your videos. Made my purchase of your bundle to support your channel. As a 60-yr old Mechanical Engineer, I love your systematic approach to teaching music. Thank you.

[@ThomasHope73]

Just had a really productive couple of hours practicing this stuff… and I’ve been playing since 1988! 😁👍 An insightful way to revisit these fundamental concepts. Thank you, and well done! 👌👏

[@fretscience]

That’s awesome to hear…thanks, Thomas!

[@ChanokchaiChauychoo]

Your content is easiest to digest. It take genius to do that. You are phenomenal

[@fretscience]

Thank you!

[@joseberardocunha]

You got me subscribed with only two videos published so far. Please keep up the good work, this is nothing less than magnificent. Can't wait for more. Thanks

[@fretscience]

Thanks, Jose…glad to have you here!

[@wthrmn]

What a time to learn the guitar, thank you so much for these videos. I've watched countless tutorials on shapes, but these are superior in so many ways! The way you explain it and visualize it at the same time is exceptional. Finally, I can continue my journey in mastering the guitar. For anyone interested, definitely go and watch his other video on triads and how they work in context of scales and what not. Unbelievably helpful, thank you again!

[@fretscience]

Thanks for your kind words! 🎸🧪🤘

[@danbromberg]

Wonderfully presented! Anxiously awaiting Part 2 (and beyond!)

[@fretscience]

Thanks, Dan!

[@danbromberg]

@@fretscience So far you only have 2 videos available, is your plan to make more?

[@fretscience]

The third video is coming very soon. These take about 15-20 hours of work to get the animations and the script just right. I finished those steps today and now need a couple more hours to record and edit, plus however long it takes KZbin to do its thing.

[@fretscience]

I have a full time job, so it’s been taking me 2-3 weeks per video to go from concept to upload

[@fredtaylor9792]

This is absolutely THE best way to present information on the fretboard. What you're showing is exactly the way I try to imagine it in my head. I've subscribed after just two videos. Well done and thank you! 😊

[@fretscience]

Many thanks!

[@carlohabana961]

Absolutely mind-blowing, a penny dropped watching both your videos. Please keep making content, your teaching style is unrivalled! ❤

[@fretscience]

You are too kind…thanks!

[@henkhenk4357]

The target note sequence for a I-IV-V progression is an eye opener for me, thx !

[@fretscience]

I’m glad that resonated with you, thanks!

[@goshu7009]

Yep. Every 10 years old classical musician knows it 😎 and all piano players. Do - fa - sol - do Its called Simple Kadenca.

[@iggykarpov]

​@@goshu7009what does it have to do with explaining how this works on guitar, so you avoid tons of rote memorization and move on to the musical aspects of playing that much quicker? I think you missed the point completely. NB In English it is called 'cadence'

[@goshu7009]

@@iggykarpov No, i am saying that study Music theory is very cool think and 3rd grade children knows thia things. This is part of the Music theory. Whats the problem?

[@iggykarpov]

@@goshu7009 Sorry, I probably misunderstood. 🤝

[@JR-pr8jb]

Your unique contribution to guitar-ology is the term "warp," a quick way of referring to the effect of the reduced interval between the 3rd and 2nd strings. Thanks.

[@fretscience]

I can’t claim credit for the name, since I adapted it from the great Jon Finn, but I like to think that I’ve contributed by illustrating it with animations and showing additional ways to use it to reduce memorization beyond what Jon teaches in his books. Hopefully that makes it more accessible.

[@iggykarpov]

Terrific intellectual honesty, but totally expected from you, Keith!👍

[@CreatingSacredSpaces]

This is a great video that shows how to look at your fretboard while playing for the chord-of-the-moment.

[@mug2y]

I've watched hundreds of tutorials about scales and still not got it, I'm still a bit puzzled with this, but its by far an very helpful and interesting tute, thank you very much.

[@fretscience]

Feel free to ask questions here in the comments or shoot me an email at [e-mail]. I’d love to help you get past whatever is blocking you (and I’m sure it would help others too). If you think a 1:1 video coaching session would help, that’s also an option

[@christopherlopez2491]

Thank you so much ! I recently had things start to click for me and I finally made it out of a guitar purgatory for the past decade… this is exactly what I needed.

[@fretscience]

That’s great to hear! 🎸🧪🤘

[@philjames1019]

This new channel of yours is absolutely awesome!! I've never heard these systems explained in such a logical yet simple way. Good luck with your channel, and the website ... just subscribed!! 😍😍

[@fretscience]

Welcome aboard, Phil…glad you’re here!

[@GaveMeGrace1]

Glad to know it’s not just my imagination that I think I recognize the voice and cadence of speech-expanding the world more than just 5 watts at a time.

[@hansenmarc]

Very logically presented. Thank you. I think it’s helpful to understand the “warp” by using open chords and seeing how the notes change when moved up by a fourth. For example, looking at the “CAGED” chords in this order: E -> A -> D, then starting over from the low 6th string again, G -> C

[@fretscience]

Thanks for the kind words! Yes, that’s a natural extension of the triad example in the video. I think there’s a good lesson in here somewhere about arpeggios, and the example of the open chords would fit in well with that.

[@alexlang178]

Bloody hell! What great insight! Thank you for figuring this out and sharing it with us! Superb!

[@fretscience]

I'm glad it helped! 🎸🧪🤘

[@sustainablelife1st]

more more more please! this is eye opening to me, a beginner. Thanks!

[@sustainablelife1st]

PS, I went to your website. Great stuff! again, thanks so much.

[@marcilioguimaraes4243]

Greetings from Brazil. Best explanation ever

[@fretscience]

Glad it was helpful!

[@jonathanamirzaian7891]

This video has well and truly changed my perception of understanding the guitar - thank you!

[@fretscience]

That’s great to hear…I love to see it when it “clicks”! 🎸🧪🤘

[@driss9503]

Your approach has transformed the way I use the guitar, saving hours and progressing easily. Thank you so much.

[@fretscience]

Glad it helped! 🎸🧪🤘

[@kirkwilliams2127]

Such great info. I will buy your material as I appreciate the work you have done here.

[@fretscience]

Much appreciated! 🎸🧪🤘

[@wighatsuperreggie]

Where were you when I was 14 years old?

[@iggykarpov]

How old are you now, 15?😂

[@TeddScheckler]

Papa, is that you? Did you come back with your cigarettes?

[@wighatsuperreggie]

@@iggykarpov 56, but I wish I had seen this lesson years ago.

[@DaddyKratosOfTheShire]

This is what I've been looking for.....for like 30 years

[@fretscience]

I was in the same boat when it started clicking for me

[@masterbuilder3166]

Fantastic presentation 👍 Priceless knowledge. You win the internet . Subscribed 💪

[@fretscience]

Thanks, glad you liked it!

[@skintslots]

Brilliant! Such a simple way of explaining it. I have the basic grasp but this video shows exactly how it's applied in it's simplest,and most effective form. I have always known about the scales being a series of 1 to 3 and 1 to 4 patterns but this explains it so well. Thank you.

[@fretscience]

Glad it was helpful!

[@graemethorne4540]

Wow, love this explanation it's a good way of visualising the way the scales work together.

[@louistech112]

I’m so glad that this just popped up on my feed man

[@fretscience]

Glad you found it!

[@claytonbrown7622]

That was an insanely good explanation - and pretty brief too. Kudos and keep rockin'.

[@fretscience]

Thanks, Clayton!

[@rogerpercival5486]

I came up with this on my own and you are the only person I have seen so far teach this way cudos

[@fretscience]

It gets even better (and more useful in a musicality sense) with the next couple of videos, so stick around 😉

[@Charliemmag]

Im very thankful for stumbling into your channel!

[@fretscience]

Glad you’re here! 🎸🧪🤘

[@Black-un5tr]

Thank you for such a good video. It is so much helpful.

[@martinpeters3014]

Elegant explanation - thank you!

[@fretscience]

Thanks, Martin!

[@jessejordan8116]

Ok. So this channel is going to blow up. Phenomenal content. Bravo!!

[@fretscience]

Thanks, Jesse!

[@michaelgumleyguitar]

This was an amazingly helpful and deeply insightful lesson. Thanks so much for taking the time to make this video and help guitar players connect the dots and learn more easily

[@fretscience]

Thanks, Michael!

[@eddiekorkis]

Bro look at your subs grow. It’s six months and wow! Great content.

[@fretscience]

Crazy, isn’t it?…thanks! 🎸🧪🤘

[@aaronbennett1266]

Finally, the circle explained to me using English! Thx brother 🙏🏽👊

[@fretscience]

No problem 👍

[@openveracity]

man, very killer video. excellent presentation. very much appreciated!

[@fretscience]

Thank you!

[@cmep]

This channel is very good. Bravo!

[@djhedflux]

Loving FS - awesome teacher

[@fretscience]

Much appreciated, thanks! 🎸🧪🤘

[@minstrel72]

Love the visuals and the explanations. I have been researching the connections since I started playing a couple of years ago and this is the best presentation I've seen - thank you for putting together.

[@fretscience]

I appreciate the kind words!

[@guitarclassics]

Wonderful presented, a different insight in the very complex note stuff, a little bit more easy presented for the guitarist who tend to think more in shapes than in notes, pitches and keys. Good stuff for my guitar students. Thanks for this wonderful video. That's where the internet is invented for.

[@fretscience]

Glad it was helpful!

[@pvillez]

Excellent approach and clearly explained. A great way to visualise the fretboard. Thank you.

[@fretscience]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@RodionRomanovic11]

I felt an epiphany watching this, it answered so many questions I had, thank you.

[@fretscience]

That's fantastic to hear...I'm glad it helped!

[@GilesMDavis]

🤯 I have had to stop and start watching again with a pencil and paper. This is genius. Love the style and delivery, too.

[@AT-uy7qn]

Excellent as always , lot of thoughts and hard work to do this. Thank you

[@agnivadasgupta]

Great video! One small correction - In 3:30, it should be four (insted of three) step sizes that we can take, to cover all the possible notes. These are one, five, seven (as you mentioned) and also eleven. Eleven is essentially like one, but counter clockwise. Just like seven is essentially like five but counter clockwise. (If you're interested, the reason there are only four possible step sizes is because there are only four numbers smaller than 12 which are coprime to 12, as in, these. numbers do not have any common factor with 12. These numbers are - 1,5,7 and 11. So, for instance if our musical scale had 13 semitones, we could have chosen any of the possible 12 step sizes and reach all the notes, because all the numbers below 13 are coprime to it!)

[@fretscience]

Yes, you're correct, and I appreciate you pointing it out. That error is already listed in the "errata" section of the video description, along with a mislabeled chord -- unfortunately, KZbin does not provide any way that I can find to go back and edit an existing video. Thanks!

[@a11pu1poj]

heyyy thats dope man. I do a similar thing to learn the modes of the major scale. didnt think to apply that thinking to the pentatonic and triads. subbed! cheers

[@fretscience]

Thanks! If you're interested in my take on how to apply this to the major scale modes, that's in this other video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aHrbmohva6-Ebdk (I'll likely cover 3NPS in a separate video)

[@thorstenwilhelm2241]

I guess there are only a few down the KZbin road, who can explain the complexity of guitar music theory that easy. You are one of them and your explanations are amazing. Thank you for this and hopefully for more.

[@fretscience]

Much appreciated…thanks, Thorsten!

[@FlaschDJ]

I just stumbled upon this video and subscribed after listening to 5 seconds (I wanted to verify that I didn’t hate the presenter’s voice. I didn’t). So why did I subscribe? 1) I could really relate to the channel name: Fret Science. Studying fretboard “math” interests me. 2) Graphics. This presenter found or invented TOOLS that are fantastic for VISUALLY explaining his concepts. Now let’s see if my instincts were correct.

[@fretscience]

Phew…(I hate listening to recordings of my voice)…thanks for subscribing! 🎸🧪🤘

[@peterbotsford8878]

What a clever fellow. Thank you!

[@fretscience]

Glad you liked it!

[@peterbotsford8878]

@@fretscience i knew there was something like your system but couldnt quite put the pieces together...

[@pierre4785]

Great video. A small correction to 3.01, it's not F major triad but E major triad. Your pedagogy is excellent and allows you to visualize very quickly the understanding of the guitar fretboard. sincerely.

[@fretscience]

Thanks for your kind words, Pierre…that error is noted in the video description, but please do send along any additional ones you find…I’m sure there are more 🎸🧪🤘

[@pierre4785]

Sorry, after rewatching the video I saw the correction. thanks for pointing that out to me. next time I will be more careful. cordially👍🎸🎸 Bonjour de France

[@fretscience]

@@pierre4785 no worries whatsoever! I can’t fix the video itself, but I added a pop-up note with the correction 🎸🧪🤘

[@glynnkorrel693]

Im trying to be helpful here because Yes the Circle of 4ths and 5th can be (potentially) confusing for a Beginner that (as you say) “a fourth moving up” (technically DOES NOT) “get you the (EXACT) same note as moving a fifth lower”. So… that is very confusing. I really think that you should be more explicit at 4:09 by saying: “at fourth moving up (HIGHER IN PITCH) gets you to the same note a as fifth moving down (LOWER IN PITCH but an OCTAVE LOWER).

[@bobavellar3224]

Wow! Best info on this I’ve ever seen! I need to study it more but this was one of those aha moments that gets you to another level. Great explanation and perfect video! Thanks so much!

[@fretscience]

More to come soon…thanks!

[@MultiCugel]

Not seen this anywhere else, subscribed thanks

[@fretscience]

Glad to have you here! My goal is to only make videos for topics where I have a different (and hopefully better) approach to offer than the old standbys. I hope you find that’s true of my other videos

[@MultiCugel]

@@fretscience Oh yes, I'm going to look at more. Thanks.

[@betula-pendula]

Great explanation!

[@fretscience]

Thanks!

[@mrb.8446]

Can't thank the KZbin algorithm enough for washing this into my feed. Can't thank you guys enough for providing one of the biggest eye-openers in the last few years to me. Very well explained and visualised. All of a sudden I can map my way on the fretboard without knowing anything about boxes or positions. This literally brings it all together and is all you need. Big thumbs up!

[@fretscience]

Awesome, I'm glad it helped!

[@StrekRout]

How I wish I had watched this video a year ago… I had to come to these conclusions myself, after countless hours of training. Great video, everyone should watch it

[@fretscience]

Thanks, Mateus!

[@sixstringsandthetruth3891]

The timing of this video couldnt have been better! I just made that pentatonic shifting pattern discovery last week.....by basically mapping it out on paper. I've spent the last week trying to "get it".....with some dead ends and little eureka moments here and there........this video lays it out perfectly! Fantastic explanation! Subbed.

[@fretscience]

Much appreciated!

[@denisgarcia6708]

Best music lesson ever, never seen it like that before. Already subsribed. Mil gracias!

[@fretscience]

Thanks, Denis! 🎸🧪🤘

[@rossgaspar9488]

More videos please!

[@fretscience]

Working on it…😅

[@hybridjohn1]

omg, amazing explanation and visuals. Lol, I went to music school in the 90's...I wish the teaching was this way then. More vids please 🙂

[@fretscience]

Thanks! More coming soon...

[@KBorham]

This is a powerful presentation, although I had to watch it multiple times, and chop it into bite-size chunks to absorb it all. Wondering why the author chose to present the Circle of Fifths in a non-standard direction? Still, an eye-opening presentation, thank you. EDIT: Now I know why (guitar is tuned in 4ths, mostly)....... Bravo!

[@fretscience]

I chose what I thought was the logical direction (4ths) without realizing it wasn’t the standard. If I could go back and edit it, I probably would 😅

[@paolomaggi8188]

Enlightening explanation !!!!!!!! Thank you very much!!!

[@fretscience]

Glad it was helpful!

[@78tag]

I think your explanation of the circle of fifths is great. I have to ask 4:05 - "A 4th moving up gets you to the same note as a 5th moving down" ????? .. OK, I see what I missed - the up/down (in the scale), clockwise/counterclockwise (direction on the circle). Sorry about that. That idea went by pretty fast. I will be putting some much needed time in on this video. Your explanation really cleared up the reason this chart is called the "circle of 4ths/5ths". Very helpful. EDIT: I realize that some charts are written in the opposite order of your chart. I guess you have to decide for yourself which order to memorize the chords in. It took me more than a minute to realize I have always worked with the opposite chart from yours and didn't notice the difference right away - the theory is the same, you just have to be paying attention......Old Dog New Trick :) I learned piano as a child, took a 50 year break then decided to play the guitar.......I don't think my brain is ever going to relate to the fret board the way it did to the keys. If anything will help me it will be the horizontal concept you have presented here. Thanks much.

[@fretscience]

It looks like you answered your own question…thanks! If you have more questions, don’t hesitate to ask 🤣

[@78tag]

@@fretscience I only mentioned all that in case someone else had the same misunderstandings. I know I get a lot out of reading the comments to subjects like this. thanks

[@fretscience]

It’s much appreciated!

[@Indigo-lucky]

Great and succinct! Please do more. Just subscribed and looking forward to new videos!

[@allamejam]

maybe giving audio support explanation would be a major succes on this videos, cus its a very good-interesting point of view that you share whit us. Thanks !

[@fretscience]

Noted!

[@midi1529]

Ok... i know my maj minor diatonic position and jazz min and harmonic, dim and aug, this was new to me but very interested.

[@fretscience]

My goal with these videos is to help beginner and intermediate players fast-forward through the rote memorization that’s usually required to learn all of that, but I’m thrilled to see that even seasoned players are having the occasional “aha” moment and seeing things in a different way. Thanks for watching!

[@jonatanpineyro]

This is incredible and I loved it, great job! The ONE thing I would say is I've never seen the circle of 4ths/5ths backwards as you put it 4:10 but still amazing.

[@fretscience]

In my defense, the direction is arbitrary, and I would argue it makes more sense for clockwise to be the more common root motion, but yeah, I should have checked whether there was an existing convention 😅🎸🧪🤘

[@jonatanpineyro]

@@fretscience all love, great vids 🤣🤣🤣🤘🤘🤘🎸🎸🎸

[@inlandbott]

another awesome video! also, glad the background music is gone:) sounds so much better

[@fretscience]

Thanks! Agree 100% about the background music. I’m definitely figuring this stuff out as I go 🤣

[@fretscience]

One might call it “improvising”

[@benhanbury]

Great video, I’m excited about this channel. Subscribed!

[@fretscience]

Thanks, Ben!

[@glo516]

It's Brillant , many thanks

[@fretscience]

Our pleasure!

[@hoomanghazizahedi3537]

Wow veryyy nice video Thanks a lot Keep going

[@fretscience]

Thanks, Hooman!

[@malthus101]

This seems quite advanced - what would you expect people to know coming into this lesson? I think I'll master the pentatonic 5 positions before trying this stuff.

[@fretscience]

If you come away from this video understanding how shapes change when they cross the “warp”, you’re in good shape for my other videos. My video on the pentatonic scale is a good next step and it will save you a lot of time over mastering 5 positions independently. For what it’s worth, this channel was originally aimed at intermediate players with a basic theory background, and I’m gradually making it more accessible to beginners.

[@AlexaMorales]

That was amazing, thank you! ❤

[@fretscience]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@shawnbenz]

Solid video

[@fretscience]

Thanks, Shawn!

[@ahmed_elnaggar]

if you give a way to practice it, this lesson would be the best lesson ever!

[@fretscience]

That’s in the works…subscribe on KZbin and to the email list at fretscience.com to be the first to know when new content is available 😉🎸🧪🤘

[@zulfikarfilandra]

mind blown. explanded.

[@fretscience]

I hope that’s in a good way 🤣🧪🎸🎸

[@zulfikarfilandra]

merci beacoup@@fretscience

[@sanoysuelto]

Thank you Maestro!!!

[@fretscience]

You are welcome!

[@JohnAnderson-dw9li]

This is a great visualization- been trying to document this in a friendly way for years! Question though: isn’t the “blues” note the flat 5th? You’re suggesting to bend the flat 3rd to the major 3rd? Hopefully you’ll see this and set me straight…

[@fretscience]

You are correct that in the minor blues scale, the “blue note” is the flat 5th. It turns out that in the minor blues scale, the blue note is actually the flat third. But this video isn’t talking about the blues scale… In the section you’re referring to, I’m talking about the common blues/rock practice of playing minor pentatonic scales over dominant (major) chords. In those situations, when you play the flat third, it sounds much better to bend it a little toward the natural third. For a lesson on the blues scale, check out: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rau6dmOapd2ho7s

[@JohnAnderson-dw9li]

@@fretscience ahhhh got it. Your example is 12 bars blues in A not Aminor. Thanks!

[@iggykarpov]

0:01 THE INFINITE FRETBOARD: The "warp", the Circle of Fifths, and the Pentatonic Scale Reduce the amount of memorization needed to learn new scales, arpeggios and chords by understanding fretboard geometry. 1:38 Some guitarists use E A D G C F tuning - no warp ___________________________________ 2:04 The Warp(G-B strings) ------------------------------------- 2:45 MOVING TRIADS ------------------------------------- 2:48 Second inversion triads - from E-shaped chords 2:52 2:55 2:57 2:59 Root position triads from C-shaped chords 3:03 3:05 3:06 3:08 First inversion triads from G-shaped chords 3:10 3:12 3:14 ___________________________________ ___________________________________ 3:16 THE CIRCLE OF FOURTS/FIFTHS 3:25 3 semitone step sizes to visit all 12 notes - 1(m2), 5(P4), and 7(P5) 4:33 Circle of Fourths found on neighboring strings (except for G-B warp). 4:50 ___________________________________ ___________________________________ 5:05 MOVING PENTATONICS 5:15 Form 1 5:26 Shift to Form 4 - 5:40 shift up 7 frets to return to original key 5:47 5:50 Shift to Form 2 5:51 5:54 Shift to Form 5 5:56 5:58 Shift to Form 3 5:59 6:02 Shift back to Form 1 ___________________________________ 6:52 MOVING BLUES 7:11 Form 1 A minor pentatonic. 7:15 I-chord notes overlaid. The flat thirds(colored blue) need to be bent between 1/4 and 1/2 step 7:29 Shift up a string to IV chord 7:39 Back to I chord 7:43 Shift down a string to V chord (with fretboard rotation fro 6th to 1st string) 7:53 Repeat and focus on the 3rds in blue 8:03 8:06 8:09 8:12

[@datdaokid]

Feel like I’m gonna need to watch this 15 times

[@fretscience]

It might help to watch this big picture overview video first…you don’t need to absorb all of this one all at once: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qqGmYmRrr89-n9ksi=KmcdM4kE1aOXqMcN

[@AntonMadness]

ooooooooooooofffffccooouuuursse circle of 5th, it runs up and down DOH! Mind blown x-D

[@PaolaSelva]

Great video 👍

[@ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095]

I dunno, I never tried to memorise hundreds of individual shapes, except for the maybe dozen basic chords. After that, you need E, Em, A and Am and slide up the fret board. After that, getting into diminished 9th/augmented 5th and so on gets a little more complicated. *Edit:* Still, there's some good musical theory for the guitar in this, so I subbed anyway. {:o:O:}

[@stopstalkingyouspookybastard]

damn man. teaching this stuff any other way should be illegal from now on. hands down best way of teaching fret board that i have ever seen in 20 years of my guitar playing. thank you so much for this on behalf of every guitar player.

[@fretscience]

I’m so glad it was helpful!

[@iggykarpov]

I'm with you! Let's petition the Congress to make it illegal.😂👍

[@andrejmajstorovic1437]

GENIUS

[@fretscience]

I’m still waiting for my honorary Mensa certificate 🤣

[@RichardEmery-ln3xm]

This is awesome

[@fretscience]

🎸🧪🤘

[@xugefu]

Thanks!

[@fretscience]

Much appreciated, thank you! 🎸🧪🤘

[@gaspanda]

Very handy

[@matthiasscheffler548]

Invaluable