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Elbradamontes t1_ir0lnvg wrote

This is cool but seriously guys do yourself a favor and learn one octave. Just one. Major or minor, pentatonic or diatonic it doesn't matter. Start with what you use most. Country: Major Diatonic. Everything else: Minor Pentatonic.

Memorize ONE OCTAVE using scale degrees. Then practice moving that around the guitar. Notice what the "Line-O-Confusion" does to the scale. That's the G-B string tuning.

Once you have the first octave you can tackle the second.

As for fretboard knowledge? Pick one fret per week to quiz yourself on. Just keep cycling through he frets. If that doesn't make you want to stab your eyes you can add reviewing all the root notes in the song you're practicing currently. Reviewing is the word. Not finding. Finding is useless outside the fact that it allows you to begin reviewing.

Source: Guitar teacher for 20 years. I've witnessed the difference between the one octave approach and the "fretboard map" approach first hand with hundreds, maybe thousands, of students.

I'm currently editing a Top Gun Theme lesson to illustrate this point. The theme is easy. The point of the lesson is to understand scales and the fretboard better. If anyone is curious that should be up on my channel in about a week. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTMlZtDH0kP1ozHv9DJnPsg

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Lidjungle t1_ir159nb wrote

Then do the diatonic series in one position.

I teach Jazz, and you'd be surprised just how many guitarists freak out when you ask them to play F and C in the same position. You can't keep jumping all over the fretboard to play a 1-5 progression. :)

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Elbradamontes t1_ir2zztb wrote

Ha. You’ve triggered me! This is what I’m currently practicing.

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ZdrytchX t1_ir99491 wrote

> Top Gun Theme

as in the anthem or the danger zone one? or the new film intro medley?

> Notice what the "Line-O-Confusion" does to the scale. That's the G-B string tuning.

can't confuse it if you're playing a guitar that has no upper end B/E string lol

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