As you can tell from my previous blog posts, learning and knowing the fretboard to the best of one's ability is of the utmost importance to me—and something I stress to all my guitar...
As you can tell from my previous blog posts, learning and knowing the fretboard to the best of one's ability is of the utmost importance to me—and something I stress to all my guitar students.
How much do I stress this point?
So much that last week one of my students wanted to know why is it so important to me.
I thought about it for a day or two. That's why I love teaching; it gets me to reevaluate all that I know. The reason it is so important to me is because I feel that the more knowledge you have about your instrument and how to get around on it, the more beauty you can create with it. You will be able to summon any possible combination of notes and phrases to emote the exact feeling you are trying to convey.
It is my job as a teacher to come up with interesting, unique and cool ways to master this task. That being said, here is an interesting, unique and cool major-scale exercise to help you learn and eventually master the fret board. This exercise is based on the six notes of any major scale played in three octaves up and down the neck starting on different notes of the scale in order diatonically.
This exercise is played in the key of F major. It is actually moveable, but for the constraints of space, we will use F major.
The first six notes of the F major scale are F, G, A, Bb, C and D, respectively. We will play these notes in that order in three octaves across and up and down the neck. Once that is done, we will then play the next six notes of the major scale,