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: kzread.info/dash/bejne/pqR3k5Nuqs2xmdo.html 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 🎸🧪🤘

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

24 күн бұрын

Thanks, Boris…much appreciated! 🎸🧪🤘

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

@fretscience

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@michaelgumleyguitar

Жыл бұрын

and the diagrams help so much too

@sdubrau

Жыл бұрын

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

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

Can't thank the KZread 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

Жыл бұрын

Awesome, I'm glad it helped!

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 KZread. 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

Жыл бұрын

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

Nothing greater than a great teacher. You are a great teacher. Thank you for sharing.

@fretscience

Жыл бұрын

Much appreciated, John!

The shifting concept accross the different forms of the penta is a real revelation !

@fretscience

Жыл бұрын

So 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.

@fretscience

Жыл бұрын

I worked in an IT department for 3 months once…I’m glad this was useful for you!

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.....

@fretscience

Жыл бұрын

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_ KZread channels that focus on that 🤣

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.

Best explanation of Pentatonics and the whole fretboard on KZread. Everything makes so much more sense now

@fretscience

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Frank!

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

@fretscience

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

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!

@fretscience

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Michael! I’m glad it was helpful 🎸🧪🤘

@MiguelEsguerra

7 ай бұрын

We're on the same boat, man. Hahaha! Thank you so much @fretscience, it changes everything. Gosh, took me 17 yrs.

@fretscience

7 ай бұрын

Took me 30 years, so don’t feel bad 🤣🎸🧪🤘

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

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Jose…glad to have you here!

The triads explanation blew my mind!

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

10 ай бұрын

❤️❤️❤️

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

Жыл бұрын

Many thanks!

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

@fretscience

Жыл бұрын

You are too kind…thanks!

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

Жыл бұрын

Glad I could help! 🎸🧪🤘

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

Жыл бұрын

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.

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

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

Жыл бұрын

That’s awesome to hear…thanks, Thomas!

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

Жыл бұрын

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

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

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

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

5 ай бұрын

Thanks for your kind words! 🎸🧪🤘

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

Жыл бұрын

Welcome aboard, Phil…glad you’re here!

@GaveMeGrace1

Жыл бұрын

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.

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

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Michael!

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

Жыл бұрын

I appreciate the kind words!

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!

@fretscience

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Viktor!

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.

@fretscience

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

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

@fretscience

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Clayton!

Love this video. Thank you for making this information available and so easy to understand and digest. I really appreciate your content.

@fretscience

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much…I’m glad it was helpful!

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

@fretscience

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! 🎸🧪🤘

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

@fretscience

3 ай бұрын

Definitely check out my other videos…lots of animations like this, and I think they’ve gotten better over time 🎸🧪🤘

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 :)

@fretscience

Жыл бұрын

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 🤣🎸🧪🤘

@iggykarpov

5 ай бұрын

​@@fretscienceCould have fooled me. ❤

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.

Great material - thanks for the clear presentation!

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

@fretscience

Жыл бұрын

And it’s just one of many ways to approach improvising over the blues!

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

@fretscience

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Dan!

@danbromberg

Жыл бұрын

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

@fretscience

Жыл бұрын

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 KZread to do its thing.

@fretscience

Жыл бұрын

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

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.

@fretscience

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Kevin!

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

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Michael…much appreciated!

@huder67

Жыл бұрын

dido!

@iggykarpov

5 ай бұрын

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

Where were you when I was 14 years old?

@iggykarpov

5 ай бұрын

How old are you now, 15?😂

@TeddScheckler

4 ай бұрын

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

@wighatsuperreggie

4 ай бұрын

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

@DaddyKratosOfTheShire

3 ай бұрын

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

@fretscience

3 ай бұрын

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

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

@fretscience

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

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

@fretscience

11 ай бұрын

Glad it helped! 🎸🧪🤘

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.

@fretscience

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Trey! 🎸🧪🤘

What an excellent tutorial! Great video, great analysis and great voiceover. Even I can learn a thing or two from your lesson. Thanks.

@fretscience

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Chris…glad it was helpful!

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

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

What a great explanation thanks a million will be there for more to come. Kudos

@fretscience

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

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

@sustainablelife1st

Жыл бұрын

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

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

@fretscience

4 ай бұрын

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

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

@fretscience

11 ай бұрын

I'm glad it helped! 🎸🧪🤘

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

4 ай бұрын

That’s great to hear! 🎸🧪🤘

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

Жыл бұрын

More to come soon…thanks!

This channel is very good. Bravo!

OMG - Pentatonic shapes....Mind Blown!

Elegant explanation - thank you!

@fretscience

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Martin!

The animations are very helpful!

@fretscience

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Thank you very much for this fantastic insight! It has helped me a lot understanding the fretboard. Subscribed to your channel and website. Congratulations!

@fretscience

Жыл бұрын

Much appreciated, thanks, Jose!

Extremely well presented! Looking forward to more videos thanks!

@fretscience

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Charles!

@charlesli5521

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

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.

@fretscience

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Bucky! So glad it helped!

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

Жыл бұрын

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.

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

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

@fretscience

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Im very thankful for stumbling into your channel!

@fretscience

8 ай бұрын

Glad you’re here! 🎸🧪🤘

The graphics are amazing. Thanks.

@fretscience

Жыл бұрын

Glad you like them!

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

Жыл бұрын

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

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! 🤙

@fretscience

10 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it…welcome to the channel! 🎸🧪🤘

Invaluable information here.

This is golden! Thanks a million!

@fretscience

6 ай бұрын

Glad you found it useful! 🎸🧪🤘

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

@fretscience

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, glad you liked it!

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

@fretscience

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Jesse!

You're a master of clear explanation!! ✌️💜🙋🏻‍♂️🎸

@fretscience

Жыл бұрын

Much appreciated! 🎸🧪🤘

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

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

@fretscience

Жыл бұрын

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

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

7 ай бұрын

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

5 ай бұрын

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

Very helpful. Thank you!

Great video. Looking forward to the next one.

@fretscience

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Excellent unlocking of the fretboard.

@fretscience

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Mario!

Greetings from Brazil. Best explanation ever

@fretscience

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Simply THE BEST video on YT

@fretscience

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

thanks for this lesson.

@fretscience

Жыл бұрын

You’re most welcome!

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

@fretscience

Ай бұрын

Much appreciated! 🎸🧪🤘

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

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! If you're interested in my take on how to apply this to the major scale modes, that's in this other video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZH2sy7dyZq23Z9o.html (I'll likely cover 3NPS in a separate video)

Great explanation!

@fretscience

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

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

@fretscience

Жыл бұрын

I’m glad that resonated with you, thanks!

@goshu7009

Жыл бұрын

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

@iggykarpov

5 ай бұрын

​@@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

5 ай бұрын

@@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

5 ай бұрын

@@goshu7009 Sorry, I probably misunderstood. 🤝

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

@fretscience

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Denis! 🎸🧪🤘

Very good teaching.

@fretscience

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! 🎸🧪🤘

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

@fretscience

Жыл бұрын

No problem 👍

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

Жыл бұрын

If there are specific parts that are confusing, let me know. I would definitely consider making another video to explain whatever’s missing

@MrAmisto

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@nr3157

Жыл бұрын

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.

@nr3157

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@fretscience

Жыл бұрын

@@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!

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

@fretscience

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

That was amazing, thank you! ❤

@fretscience

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Gonna watch this a few times but it's golden. Wow

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

@fretscience

Жыл бұрын

Glad you found it!

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

Жыл бұрын

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.

This is amazing. Thank you so much for your work!

@fretscience

28 күн бұрын

Glad you liked it! 🎸🧪🤘

Loving FS - awesome teacher

@fretscience

3 ай бұрын

Much appreciated, thanks! 🎸🧪🤘

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

@fretscience

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Ben!

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

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!