How To EASILY Learn The Entire Fretboard
Added 2024-01-01 20:37:42 +0000 UTCSo for December you guys unanimously voted in favor of a lesson on learning the fretboard, so here you have it!
In this video I break down my super secret shortcut (well, no so secret now I guess) for quickly getting to grips with navigating the fretboard in ANY key by using the magic of relative chords/scales. The best part is that my method's built on pretty fundamental knowledge you likely already know!
Good luck and don't forget to share your progress with everyone in the Discord server!
0:00 Intro
0:51 Step 1
2:50 Step 2
3:34 Step 3
6:18 Step 4
8:39 Step 5
10:58 Step 6
12:18 Step 7
0:00 Playthrough
Comments
Good question! You can indeed combine them because remember a pentatonic scale is literally just a cut down version of the natural minor scale!
Bradley Hall
2024-12-13 13:18:22 +0000 UTCThanks Brad, great lesson! Only question I had was can you combine a minor pentatonic with a full relative major scale and vice versa or is it better to stick to both minor/major relatives being pentatonics or full 3 note per stringers? Thanks man!
Danny
2024-12-12 22:47:16 +0000 UTCI was searching too and then I saw this comment,thanks
Joel Orlando Morello
2024-10-06 16:30:10 +0000 UTCJust watched this video, the scales and chords still sound confusing to me, but I'm starting to get a feeling about shifting through the fretboard. I'm gonna move on further! Thanks Brad.
Shay Zhang
2024-09-17 16:10:55 +0000 UTCholy smokes dude never thought of it that way damn i'm stunned
[TR] TrapTron5000
2024-09-01 12:22:36 +0000 UTCI haven't actually filmed that one yet! But what I plan to cover in it is mostly covered in this lesson -> https://tinyurl.com/4cm982ta Cheers man!
Bradley Hall
2024-06-18 10:34:55 +0000 UTCHiya, thanks for the lesson. At the end you mention a follow up lesson on arpeggios but I can't seem to find it. Any help?
Jaysmth
2024-06-14 04:16:28 +0000 UTCNope, in that case I just think of the I Major with a #4! I always think relative to the root, it makes the most sense.
Bradley Hall
2024-05-23 23:52:34 +0000 UTCOne of the things that caught my attention the most was this penta major shape. The major penta that all books usually teach is the one that omits the seventh and fourth. However, this format is so spectacular that a penta evokes the ninth and sixth of its relative and the third, the fifth and seventh. Really sensational. If you do the minor penta over the relative major chord and it evokes the sixth and ninth and if you do this major penta over a relative major chord it evokes its sixth and ninth...simply spectacular...
Gleydson Nascimento
2024-05-23 01:21:19 +0000 UTCIn Greek mode classes, when the chord that characterizes a new mode comes, for example a II major degree, then to make it sound Lydian, do you combine the Dorian and Lydian scales? and the same reasoning for thinking Mixolydian do you combine the Phrygian and Mixolydian scale? Is that how you think?
Gleydson Nascimento
2024-05-22 23:43:08 +0000 UTCEu acho que não me expressei bem. O que quis dizer é: como vocé pensa essa mudança de escala? Você mantém a visualização do jônio e muda apenas a nota característica do lídio? Por que minha forma de visualização é se eu levo o I do jônio para onde está o V grau da escala eu transformo em lídio e mantenho a digitação do jônio tendo como referência o I grau indo para o V grau. Não sei se é a forma mais eficaz e queria saber como vc pensa. Qual sua forma de vizualizar. Por que da forma que eu penso eu mantenho a mesma digitação só mudando o I para pontos diferente. Exemplo: se quero mixolidio eu mudo o I grau para o quarto grau. Ou seja: o I passa a ser o quarto grau e tenho a mesma digitação para o mixolidio. Isso me possibilita não decorar uma infinidade de escalas. Mas, resumindo, como você pensa a mudança da escala? PS: translate this comments português to english.
Gleydson Nascimento
2024-05-22 14:35:26 +0000 UTCI'm not entirely sure I understand your question due to translation, but you should stop thinking about the Modes in terms of "starting at a different point in the scale", it's a very confusing and impractical way to think about the Modes. In your example from Ionian to Lydian, if you're in the key of C Major but you insert a D Major chord into the progression then you switch from C Ionian to C Lydian over the D Major chord. The tonal centre stays the same! The tonal centre only switches if you modulate. Hope that makes sense!
Bradley Hall
2024-05-22 14:13:45 +0000 UTCTraduzir textos com a câmera In the modes class, you exemplified when the chord comes from outside the key. How is the visualization with the arrival of the strange chord? as you think. does it just change the starting point of the tonal center? Ionian to Lydian example: the Ionian V becomes the I to become the Lydian scale. Or do you think otherwise?
Gleydson Nascimento
2024-05-22 04:46:55 +0000 UTCI think it would be better if you use a guitar with fret marks. It makes it easier for beginners to follow what you do.
Ju
2024-04-02 13:22:45 +0000 UTCHey Bradley, great lesson. Would you recommend this lesson before learning the modes?
Erick V
2024-03-24 04:31:44 +0000 UTCThanks Giridhar! I do indeed have a big ear training lesson planning soon!
Bradley Hall
2024-01-30 12:10:34 +0000 UTCThe idea is that this is a very quick way to easily expand your fretboard knowledge based on information most people already know! Of course learning every E minor box shape is more thorough but it's more something to learn over the long-term. Cheers Shad!
Bradley Hall
2024-01-30 12:09:51 +0000 UTCI'm missing something here. Why not just use the E minor box shapes that already fit?
Shad Harvey
2024-01-29 23:20:14 +0000 UTCAmazing lesson. I've been learning guitar for 4 years and I still didn't know the fretboard up until now. Your lesson is very helpful. Thank you. Please consider making a video on ear training. Some of my friends are able to learn songs by ear and in some cases strum the chords just by listening. I want to develop this skill.
Giridhar Govindarajan
2024-01-06 09:16:02 +0000 UTCHappy new years Bradley \m/ ive been playing guitar (self-taught) for 10 years and i still dont know the entire neck of the guitar (100%). Your lessons have been really helpefull.
Diogo Gomes
2024-01-02 15:19:27 +0000 UTCCheers Fanis! If you have your Discord integrated with Patreon then you should join in automatically. If you've already done that then relog/restart Discord and it should sort itself out.
Bradley Hall
2024-01-02 12:17:01 +0000 UTCThanks Jaime, HNY! Well done for already learning all the notes, that's a great achievement. Interval training is super important too, yes. I'll definitely be doing a lesson on that in the coming weeks!
Bradley Hall
2024-01-02 12:16:21 +0000 UTCCheers Armando, HNY!
Bradley Hall
2024-01-02 12:15:41 +0000 UTCHNY Dominik! Hope this lesson helps you on your voyage into music theory haha
Bradley Hall
2024-01-02 12:15:32 +0000 UTCHappy New Year! It's very useful knowing your entire fretboard,keep up the good work. Can someone send me the discord server pls?
Fanis Chamalidis
2024-01-02 11:12:16 +0000 UTCHappy new Year. In my case I have learned the fret by the intervals of the minor scale. As I like heavy metal, for me is the most useful, and it contains all the notes. Once you have learned the intervals of the minor scale, the rest is just aplying modifications, for example if I want to use the armonic scale I only change the 7th minor for the 7th mayor, so I don’t need to learn notes, just intervals
Jaime Ransanz Carcedo
2024-01-01 23:46:42 +0000 UTCnon trivial amount of knowledge to get in the head. Sou5, though, worth learning. Happy new year
Armando Miraglia
2024-01-01 22:51:18 +0000 UTCHappy New Year! What a coincidence that I just began to dig deeper into music theory. First thing I thought would make sense to master is learning all notes on the fretboard!
Dominik Pfaff
2024-01-01 21:29:13 +0000 UTCCheers Anthony, you too!!
Bradley Hall
2024-01-01 20:44:59 +0000 UTCHappy New Year, Bradley!
Anthony Reid
2024-01-01 20:38:22 +0000 UTC
