*NEW:* I'm currently rolling out *Improv 101,* a step-by-step improvisation course for guitarists of _all ability levels_ (there are _no_ prerequisites other than being able to physically play single-note lines on your guitar). You can get early access on Patreon patreon.com/fretscience or learn more at fretscience.com/2024/10/25/fret-science-improv-101/ Fret Science is a new and robust method for understanding the fretboard (learning all of your scales, arpeggios, and chords) with _dramatically_ less memorization. And then using that knowledge to improvise and play freely in _any_ style of music. The core method for learning scales and chords is available _for free_ here on UA-cam. If you're new to the channel, I invite you to check out the "Big Picture" video and recommended video viewing order here: ua-cam.com/play/PLMuHlX9RiFi1L1RdC0CzYa1qxZllD5Ujz.html&si=cOp25GnXrL28rbLQ If you want to go deeper or interact with me directly, come join me on Patreon patreon.com/fretscience where I'm sharing exclusive new lessons, breaking down classic solos, and rolling out a new improvisation method that will help guitarists of _all ability levels_ learn to improvise confidently over chord changes in any style. You can also connect with me at fretscience.com or support my work with a donation at buymeacoffee.com/fretscience 🎸🧪🤘
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.
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
I was jaded with all the tutorial videos with clickbait titles, everything is easiest, fastest, bestest ... But this one is truly the best, liked and subscribed
Can't thank the UA-cam 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!
I am an IT guy and I knew there was a logical way to understand frets disposition. You are the first one who revealed it an explained it so beautifully. Thank you so much. Looking forward new videos.
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 UA-cam. 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!!!
Using the Circle of 4ths to memorize the fretboard is the most amazing, elegant, and simple trick that I can't believe I'm only now hearing for the first time. It made clear in 10 seconds what 10 years of playing somehow failed to. Well done man, and please keep up the good work!
80+ years old and I get these insights now, after too many years with understanding the theory but not how to put it into practice. Better late then.... THANKS
@@fretscience Thanks Keith for the warm welcome! I just had a look at your site, and what you right at the beginning of "about" fits perfectly to my own situation. I played rhythm in several bands and still do so, and then started with fingerstyle some years ago with the idea to play melody lines just the way I do with a flute or harmonica. I manage now with simple chord progressions, but when it gets to more sophistic patterns it's not that easy any more. Your conclusions will definitely help me to shorten up the improvement process!
@ruedihuber8798 That’s great to hear! If my other videos resonate with you and you’re interested in diving deeper into melodic improvisation, I’m about to soft-launch a step-by-step improvisation course for playing melodically over blues/rock chord changes over on my Patreon: patreon.com/fretscience
While looking for the "AHA" moment I'v learned a lot. This is one of those moments for me. Putting down the scale patterns and shifting the neck UNDER it opened my eyes to whole new idea. This will help to visualize the whole fretboard. It won't make my fingers move any quicker or instantly improve my creativity but it will sure give me something totally new to work with. Thanks for the great idea! I'll bet my solos will get better quickly.....
Yes, this! Being able to get past the memorization phase is one of the keys that unlocks creativity…technique is another, but there are lots of _other_ UA-cam channels that focus on that 🤣
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!!!
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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! 👍
Honestly mind blown 🤯. I just realized I need to find more content in this visual manner. Such a clear explanation of something that felt too mysterious for a non music person
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.
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!
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 your approach to learning the fretboard is a huge help to me. I have played drums for 30 years so I knew nothing about the fretboard, and felt like I was wasting time sorting through all the fluff of most other videos. Thank you!
The final chapter of this video is perhaps the most useful tip I’ve seen in 15 years of playing guitar. Should be mandatory education for the primary school kids who think blues is boring/basic (that was me!)… it turns that simplicity into a tool for mastery of the fretboard. Bravo on this explanation
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! 😊
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 UA-cam to do its thing.
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.
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 🎸🧪🤘
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
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).
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.
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!! 😍😍
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.
@@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'
@@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?
After one year of learning and trying to memorise different scales, this was really eye opening video. Thanks a lot! Now I begin to understand the movements also in horizontal direction.
You made such a great work! Clarified things that for some not very talented people like me were so complicated to remember or even realize for years. Just in 8 minutes! Thank you so much! You are amazing!
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.
Feel free to ask questions here in the comments or shoot me an email at keith@fretscience.com. 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
EXACTLY the kind of guitar content I want to see! PLEASE KEEP ON DOING WHAT YOURE DOING. I found you a few days ago and thought you were a lowkey account that has been around a while, and I only just realized you are new. Excellent content, thank you :)
Thank you for sharing this with us. This is a huge discovery for me. Changed my life. I wonder if people of different learning styles respond differently to the traditional guitar training. I could not however hard I try get creative with the traditional way without sounding bad. Now thats gonna change
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.
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.
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.
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
Great video tutorial! Thank you. This is definitely bookmarked for repeat visits. Lots of excellent information. How about breaking into bite-sized pieces with accompanying exercises to reinforce the knowledge? I’m looking forward to watching your channel grow!
Thanks! And great idea…I am starting to put together an course with a more structured path and exercises, but first I have to learn video production and cut down the time it takes to make these videos 🤣
Well done. I developed this method in 1993 and also called for it The Infinite Guitar. Since then I've taught it to Thousands of students. It Is without a doubt the fastest way of learning not only the Pentatonic scale but works for every scale imaginable one just has to recognise the repeating shapes of a particular scale. Want to know more? Please reach out.
I’m certain that thousands of guitarists have figured this out over time, yet I’m amazed that it’s almost never taught this way. Your students are fortunate. There’s a lot more to this “method” that I could fit in a short video…much more to come!
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.
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.
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
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.
Watched this vid. Liked and subbed. I actually say down with my guitfiddle and applied this. Absolutely outstanding how it just popped. I understand what thirds and fourths and so on are, but I have never memorized any of the scales. Always just patterns. But for some reason this technique your teaching makes it easy to start recognizing individual notes and know where they are, and how they fit. WOW I don't feel like a lazy player anymore. Thank you very much.
Nicely done. If I were just learning this now this would be a great introduction. It took me years to find resources that explained how the guitar really works. This presentation is very helpful.
I am so dim! Happily learning about moving the 3 note per string patterns acros the string sets. Never applied the same thought to the pentatonic.... This is a revaluation for me....🎁🎄🎊 Thank you! 🤣🤣🤣
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.
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
Thanks! If you're interested in my take on how to apply this to the major scale modes, that's in this other video: ua-cam.com/video/2IxiU96JQ7w/v-deo.html (I'll likely cover 3NPS in a separate video)
Damn most of this went clear over my head but it's written in simple enough language that I can definitely see myself coming back to this video regularly when I start learning more theory, thank you!
@@fretscience you lost me about half way, when you started on the circle of 5ths, and I been a musician many years, but I am all by ear. Tab and circle of 5ths don't make any sense to me. Very slow progress using those methods. I am more intuitive to the notes and muscle memory style of learning. Like the guitar is part of me. Not something I am looking at trying to understand.
@@fretscience I think that to learn music theory, one has to be able to visualize whole steps and half steps (tones/semitones) and so learning this on a piano or keyboard can make it much easier to visualize things like why there are only half steps between E and F, and between B and C.
@@nr3157 In my experience, it's always helpful to have multiple ways of looking at things. Seeing the problem from a different angle is often what it takes to make things "click", and that's exactly why I'm making these videos -- not to say this the *the* way, but rather to say, here's *a different way* to think about it. Cheers!
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.
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!
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!)
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, UA-cam does not provide any way that I can find to go back and edit an existing video. Thanks!
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.
Is this Rick Beato? It sounds like his voice. If it is then this cool! If it isn't it's still cool because this is great info packaged in a much easier format to understand than the other videos out there that I have watched. Either way great Chanel. Thanks !
@@fretscience Your visuals are very clear and well thought out. However, what I like best is all the different ways of seeing/thinking about it you provide. I find things that click for me might not for others but this way I'm bound to find one that works for me.
I guess there are only a few down the UA-cam 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.
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.
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!
*NEW:* I'm currently rolling out *Improv 101,* a step-by-step improvisation course for guitarists of _all ability levels_ (there are _no_ prerequisites other than being able to physically play single-note lines on your guitar). You can get early access on Patreon patreon.com/fretscience or learn more at fretscience.com/2024/10/25/fret-science-improv-101/
Fret Science is a new and robust method for understanding the fretboard (learning all of your scales, arpeggios, and chords) with _dramatically_ less memorization. And then using that knowledge to improvise and play freely in _any_ style of music.
The core method for learning scales and chords is available _for free_ here on UA-cam. If you're new to the channel, I invite you to check out the "Big Picture" video and recommended video viewing order here: ua-cam.com/play/PLMuHlX9RiFi1L1RdC0CzYa1qxZllD5Ujz.html&si=cOp25GnXrL28rbLQ
If you want to go deeper or interact with me directly, come join me on Patreon patreon.com/fretscience where I'm sharing exclusive new lessons, breaking down classic solos, and rolling out a new improvisation method that will help guitarists of _all ability levels_ learn to improvise confidently over chord changes in any style.
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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.
Thanks, Boris…much appreciated! 🎸🧪🤘
Best explanation I have ever seen about how to use patterns and scales, everything started clicking!
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
Completely agree. And I’ve been playing for so many years and never understood this
and the diagrams help so much too
Same here. Not that I didn't know but just didn't see how you can actually use it efficiently.
I was jaded with all the tutorial videos with clickbait titles, everything is easiest, fastest, bestest ... But this one is truly the best, liked and subscribed
Thanks! 🎸🧪🤘
The shifting concept accross the different forms of the penta is a real revelation !
So glad it helped!
This was more useful than 99% of all UA-cam videos about the fretboard
Can't thank the UA-cam 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!
Awesome, I'm glad it helped!
I am an IT guy and I knew there was a logical way to understand frets disposition. You are the first one who revealed it an explained it so beautifully. Thank you so much. Looking forward new videos.
I worked in an IT department for 3 months once…I’m glad this was useful for you!
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 UA-cam. 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!!!
Thanks, Todd…your hyperbole is massively appreciated! 🎸🧪🤘
Using the Circle of 4ths to memorize the fretboard is the most amazing, elegant, and simple trick that I can't believe I'm only now hearing for the first time. It made clear in 10 seconds what 10 years of playing somehow failed to. Well done man, and please keep up the good work!
Thanks, Michael! I’m glad it was helpful 🎸🧪🤘
We're on the same boat, man. Hahaha! Thank you so much @fretscience, it changes everything. Gosh, took me 17 yrs.
Took me 30 years, so don’t feel bad 🤣🎸🧪🤘
Nothing greater than a great teacher. You are a great teacher. Thank you for sharing.
Much appreciated, John!
80+ years old and I get these insights now, after too many years with understanding the theory but not how to put it into practice. Better late then.... THANKS
It’s a never ending journey…glad you’re here! 🎸🧪🤘
@@fretscience Thanks Keith for the warm welcome! I just had a look at your site, and what you right at the beginning of "about" fits perfectly to my own situation. I played rhythm in several bands and still do so, and then started with fingerstyle some years ago with the idea to play melody lines just the way I do with a flute or harmonica. I manage now with simple chord progressions, but when it gets to more sophistic patterns it's not that easy any more. Your conclusions will definitely help me to shorten up the improvement process!
@ruedihuber8798 That’s great to hear! If my other videos resonate with you and you’re interested in diving deeper into melodic improvisation, I’m about to soft-launch a step-by-step improvisation course for playing melodically over blues/rock chord changes over on my Patreon: patreon.com/fretscience
For some reason, I still can’t wrap my head around this.
While looking for the "AHA" moment I'v learned a lot. This is one of those moments for me. Putting down the scale patterns and shifting the neck UNDER it opened my eyes to whole new idea. This will help to visualize the whole fretboard. It won't make my fingers move any quicker or instantly improve my creativity but it will sure give me something totally new to work with. Thanks for the great idea! I'll bet my solos will get better quickly.....
Yes, this! Being able to get past the memorization phase is one of the keys that unlocks creativity…technique is another, but there are lots of _other_ UA-cam channels that focus on that 🤣
Best explanation of Pentatonics and the whole fretboard on UA-cam. Everything makes so much more sense now
Thanks, Frank!
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!!!
Glad I could help! 🎸🧪🤘
You just unlocked something inside me. These are so cohesive thanks so much my guy.
Awesome…glad it helped! 🎸🧪🤘
This video has simplified so much for me in visualizing the scales as they cross . Absolutely incredible. Thank you, Keith
Awesome to hear! 🎸🧪🤘
Your content is easiest to digest. It take genius to do that. You are phenomenal
Thank you!
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.
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
Thanks, Jose…glad to have you here!
The triads explanation blew my mind!
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.
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.
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.
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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! 👍
Awesome, you’re welcome. The next video will do the same thing for the major scale modes…coming soon 🎸🧪🤘
Honestly mind blown 🤯. I just realized I need to find more content in this visual manner. Such a clear explanation of something that felt too mysterious for a non music person
Definitely check out my other videos…lots of animations like this, and I think they’ve gotten better over time 🎸🧪🤘
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.
Thanks, Michael…much appreciated!
dido!
@huder67 you either missed letter 'l' or need 'tt' in place of the second 'd'. I bet on the latter. 😂
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!
Thanks for your kind words! 🎸🧪🤘
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! 👌👏
That’s awesome to hear…thanks, Thomas!
You have a very pleasant voice for this kind of video, like a professional book reader for audiobooks.
Thanks! 🎸🧪🤘
@fretscience your approach to learning the fretboard is a huge help to me. I have played drums for 30 years so I knew nothing about the fretboard, and felt like I was wasting time sorting through all the fluff of most other videos. Thank you!
Glad you’re finding it helpful! 🎸🧪🤘
Absolutely mind-blowing, a penny dropped watching both your videos. Please keep making content, your teaching style is unrivalled! ❤
You are too kind…thanks!
🔥Best mnemonics and infographics on the topic I've ever seen! Thank you! 🙏
The final chapter of this video is perhaps the most useful tip I’ve seen in 15 years of playing guitar. Should be mandatory education for the primary school kids who think blues is boring/basic (that was me!)… it turns that simplicity into a tool for mastery of the fretboard. Bravo on this explanation
And it’s just one of many ways to approach improvising over the blues!
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! 😊
Many thanks!
Wonderfully presented! Anxiously awaiting Part 2 (and beyond!)
Thanks, Dan!
@@fretscience So far you only have 2 videos available, is your plan to make more?
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 UA-cam to do its thing.
I have a full time job, so it’s been taking me 2-3 weeks per video to go from concept to upload
This is a great video that shows how to look at your fretboard while playing for the chord-of-the-moment.
Most logical explanation I have ever seen. If you just have a little background knowledge this really unlocks things for you. It did for me.
Thanks, Trey! 🎸🧪🤘
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.
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 🎸🧪🤘
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
@@pierre4785 no worries whatsoever! I can’t fix the video itself, but I added a pop-up note with the correction 🎸🧪🤘
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).
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.
That’s great to hear! 🎸🧪🤘
This video has well and truly changed my perception of understanding the guitar - thank you!
That’s great to hear…I love to see it when it “clicks”! 🎸🧪🤘
Here are 30 seconds of exactly the Information I was searching for over the last three days starting at 2:45
Thank you so much !!!!
Glad it helped! 🎸🧪🤘
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!! 😍😍
Welcome aboard, Phil…glad you’re here!
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.
The target note sequence for a I-IV-V progression is an eye opener for me, thx !
I’m glad that resonated with you, thanks!
Yep. Every 10 years old classical musician knows it 😎 and all piano players.
Do - fa - sol - do
Its called Simple Kadenca.
@@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'
@@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?
@@goshu7009 Sorry, I probably misunderstood. 🤝
Wow, love this explanation it's a good way of visualising the way the scales work together.
After one year of learning and trying to memorise different scales, this was really eye opening video. Thanks a lot! Now I begin to understand the movements also in horizontal direction.
Glad it was helpful!
You made such a great work! Clarified things that for some not very talented people like me were so complicated to remember or even realize for years. Just in 8 minutes! Thank you so much! You are amazing!
Thanks, Viktor!
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.
Feel free to ask questions here in the comments or shoot me an email at keith@fretscience.com. 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
EXACTLY the kind of guitar content I want to see! PLEASE KEEP ON DOING WHAT YOURE DOING. I found you a few days ago and thought you were a lowkey account that has been around a while, and I only just realized you are new. Excellent content, thank you :)
Thanks, Sean…there’s definitely more on the way. I have a day job and a family, so this is a nights-and-weekends-whenever-I-can sort of operation 🤣🎸🧪🤘
@@fretscienceCould have fooled me. ❤
That was an insanely good explanation - and pretty brief too. Kudos and keep rockin'.
Thanks, Clayton!
Your approach has transformed the way I use the guitar, saving hours and progressing easily. Thank you so much.
Glad it helped! 🎸🧪🤘
Thank you for sharing this with us. This is a huge discovery for me. Changed my life. I wonder if people of different learning styles respond differently to the traditional guitar training. I could not however hard I try get creative with the traditional way without sounding bad. Now thats gonna change
That’s great to hear! 🎸🧪🤘
Such great info. I will buy your material as I appreciate the work you have done here.
Much appreciated! 🎸🧪🤘
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.
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.
Terrific intellectual honesty, but totally expected from you, Keith!👍
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.
Glad it was helpful!
Greetings from Brazil. Best explanation ever
Glad it was helpful!
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
Thanks, Michael!
Great video tutorial! Thank you. This is definitely bookmarked for repeat visits. Lots of excellent information. How about breaking into bite-sized pieces with accompanying exercises to reinforce the knowledge? I’m looking forward to watching your channel grow!
Thanks! And great idea…I am starting to put together an course with a more structured path and exercises, but first I have to learn video production and cut down the time it takes to make these videos 🤣
Well done. I developed this method in 1993 and also called for it The Infinite Guitar. Since then I've taught it to Thousands of students. It Is without a doubt the fastest way of learning not only the Pentatonic scale but works for every scale imaginable one just has to recognise the repeating shapes of a particular scale. Want to know more? Please reach out.
I’m certain that thousands of guitarists have figured this out over time, yet I’m amazed that it’s almost never taught this way. Your students are fortunate. There’s a lot more to this “method” that I could fit in a short video…much more to come!
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.
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.
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
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.
Thanks!
Much appreciated, thank you! 🎸🧪🤘
Watched this vid. Liked and subbed. I actually say down with my guitfiddle and applied this. Absolutely outstanding how it just popped. I understand what thirds and fourths and so on are, but I have never memorized any of the scales. Always just patterns. But for some reason this technique your teaching makes it easy to start recognizing individual notes and know where they are, and how they fit. WOW I don't feel like a lazy player anymore. Thank you very much.
Thanks, Bucky! So glad it helped!
Bloody hell! What great insight! Thank you for figuring this out and sharing it with us! Superb!
I'm glad it helped! 🎸🧪🤘
Ok. So this channel is going to blow up. Phenomenal content. Bravo!!
Thanks, Jesse!
more more more please! this is eye opening to me, a beginner. Thanks!
PS, I went to your website. Great stuff! again, thanks so much.
Nicely done. If I were just learning this now this would be a great introduction. It took me years to find resources that explained how the guitar really works. This presentation is very helpful.
Thanks, Kevin!
Im very thankful for stumbling into your channel!
Glad you’re here! 🎸🧪🤘
I came up with this on my own and you are the only person I have seen so far teach this way cudos
It gets even better (and more useful in a musicality sense) with the next couple of videos, so stick around 😉
Fantastic presentation 👍 Priceless knowledge. You win the internet . Subscribed 💪
Thanks, glad you liked it!
I am so dim! Happily learning about moving the 3 note per string patterns acros the string sets. Never applied the same thought to the pentatonic.... This is a revaluation for me....🎁🎄🎊 Thank you! 🤣🤣🤣
Thanks, Akin! I suspect you’re far from alone in this. Heck, I played for 35 years before figuring it out 🤣
Excellent approach and clearly explained. A great way to visualise the fretboard. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Simply THE BEST video on YT
Thank you!
Love this video. Thank you for making this information available and so easy to understand and digest. I really appreciate your content.
Thanks so much…I’m glad it was helpful!
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.
I appreciate the kind words!
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
Thanks! If you're interested in my take on how to apply this to the major scale modes, that's in this other video: ua-cam.com/video/2IxiU96JQ7w/v-deo.html (I'll likely cover 3NPS in a separate video)
Damn most of this went clear over my head but it's written in simple enough language that I can definitely see myself coming back to this video regularly when I start learning more theory, thank you!
If there are specific parts that are confusing, let me know. I would definitely consider making another video to explain whatever’s missing
@@fretscience you lost me about half way, when you started on the circle of 5ths, and I been a musician many years, but I am all by ear. Tab and circle of 5ths don't make any sense to me. Very slow progress using those methods. I am more intuitive to the notes and muscle memory style of learning. Like the guitar is part of me. Not something I am looking at trying to understand.
I think it's much easier to learn music theory if you learn about whole steps and half steps looking at a piano keyboard instead of a guitar.
@@fretscience I think that to learn music theory, one has to be able to visualize whole steps and half steps (tones/semitones) and so learning this on a piano or keyboard can make it much easier to visualize things like why there are only half steps between E and F, and between B and C.
@@nr3157 In my experience, it's always helpful to have multiple ways of looking at things. Seeing the problem from a different angle is often what it takes to make things "click", and that's exactly why I'm making these videos -- not to say this the *the* way, but rather to say, here's *a different way* to think about it. Cheers!
Very well presented. I'm going to take this on board, particularly the blues improv target notes. I've not quite looked at it this way before.
What an excellent tutorial! Great video, great analysis and great voiceover. Even I can learn a thing or two from your lesson. Thanks.
Thanks, Chris…glad it was helpful!
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.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for such a good video. It is so much helpful.
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!
More to come soon…thanks!
This is amazing. Thank you so much for your work!
Glad you liked it! 🎸🧪🤘
Finally, the circle explained to me using English! Thx brother 🙏🏽👊
No problem 👍
I’m so glad that this just popped up on my feed man
Glad you found it!
The animations are very helpful!
Thanks!
The graphics are amazing. Thanks.
Glad you like them!
Excellent as always , lot of thoughts and hard work to do this. Thank you
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!)
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, UA-cam does not provide any way that I can find to go back and edit an existing video. Thanks!
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.
Phew…(I hate listening to recordings of my voice)…thanks for subscribing! 🎸🧪🤘
This channel is very good. Bravo!
Is this Rick Beato? It sounds like his voice. If it is then this cool! If it isn't it's still cool because this is great info packaged in a much easier format to understand than the other videos out there that I have watched. Either way great Chanel. Thanks !
LOL, no, I’m not Rick. 🤣 You’ve never heard of me, I guarantee. My name’s Keith and my bio is at fretscience.com/about
Bro look at your subs grow. It’s six months and wow! Great content.
Crazy, isn’t it?…thanks! 🎸🧪🤘
Best music lesson ever, never seen it like that before. Already subsribed. Mil gracias!
Thanks, Denis! 🎸🧪🤘
Extremely well presented! Looking forward to more videos thanks!
Thanks, Charles!
@@fretscience Your visuals are very clear and well thought out. However, what I like best is all the different ways of seeing/thinking about it you provide. I find things that click for me might not for others but this way I'm bound to find one that works for me.
What a great explanation thanks a million will be there for more to come. Kudos
Glad it was helpful!
Gonna watch this a few times but it's golden. Wow
I guess there are only a few down the UA-cam 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.
Much appreciated…thanks, Thorsten!
Great video! Seeing the Penta shapes traverse the warp was kind of cool, I never visualised them that way before. I subbed just for that man! 🤙
Glad you liked it…welcome to the channel! 🎸🧪🤘
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.
Much appreciated!
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!
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 😅
Very good teaching.
Thank you! 🎸🧪🤘