Understand more. Memorize less.
Fret Science is dedicated to reducing the amount of memorization and repetitive practice needed to become fluent on the guitar. My videos are aimed at intermediate guitarists looking for a better understanding of the fretboard, but they're accessible to motivated beginners, and they will give even seasoned pros an occasional "aha" moment.
I teach the building blocks of music -- intervals, triads, arpeggios, and scales -- in ways that can be understood in minutes and easily recalled from memory, so that you'll never need to look at a scale or chord diagram again. Better yet, these new mental models will give you astonishing insight into your favorite guitarists' riffs and solos and supercharge your creativity on the instrument.
Fret Science videos are packed with information (zero fluff), and they always include a twist that's different -- and hopefully better -- than the standard way these topics are taught.
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Thank you, Keith. After 40-something years of playing guitar and bass, some of this is starting to make more sense. I appreciate you doing what you do.
I’m glad to hear it’s helpful! 🎸🧪🤘
Great video
Thanks! 🎸🧪🤘
Wow! This is amazing!🤯 Thank you so much for this knowledge!🙏 This just unlocked some many aspects of music to me!🤩 This is well-done!👏 A masterpiece of valuable information all in one video! Beautiful!🤍
Glad it was helpful! 🎸🧪🤘
Finger picking also helps with changing the sound.Or hybrid picking.
Yes, that definitely changes the tone, although not the chord quality, which is what I’m focused on this video. To your point, how you articulate the thirds can make a big difference to how muddy they sound.
New subscriber here, love the way you think and teach about guitar, can you tell me what tools you use to make these freboard visualization graphics? I would like to start making those so I can print them out and make notebooks for myself. thanks
Glad you’re finding them helpful! I wrote a custom Python library to generate most of the diagrams, but that’s not in state where it would be usable by others. The animations are done in Keynote with heavy and sometimes nuanced use of “magic move”.
@@fretscience haha, that's exactly what I'm looking at doing, with python. any clues on which python libraries might be helpful? I mean, for dependencies
@roberthanson3789 I’m using matplotlib and PIL. Nothing fancy…just ~1000 lines of code that has had requirements changes every few weeks for the past two years, so it ain’t pretty. It’s making my content-creation faster, but I can’t afford the time to refactor it at this point, and I’m confident that no one else could figure out how to use it in its current state 🤣
Great vid, im all over that patreon!
Awesome, just getting started over there, but I have lots planned for the future! 🎸🧪🤘
Wow, its Saturday afternoon in sunny old East London in the UK and am watching another incredible lesson over here. This is starting to be a habit that I'm swiftly becoming accustomed too. Fretboard Science is making my life so easy as far as understanding the guitar. I was just thinking about: how do you play Sus, Maj and Min 7th etc., lower down the neck in open positions when this FS video remarkable featured prominently in my stream. I had to smile, the internet, KZread and algorithms, how the heck did we all cope before. Cheers Mate! from the other side of the pond.
Cheers! 🎸🧪🤘
Thanks!
Much appreciated! 🎸🧪🤘
He said he was going to move faster this you can always learn this somewhere else but if you want to learn it you might as well just jump in
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Thanks...really enjoyed this and very informative!
Great to hear! 🎸🧪🤘
These videos are awesome, I am a beginner and this was a perfect way for me to learn how to navigate the fretboard
Great to hear…welcome aboard! 🎸🧪🤘
This is amazing. Thank you so much for your work!
Glad you liked it! 🎸🧪🤘
Thankyou , the table says it all succinctly, I will remember it Cheers 🇦🇺scott
Cheers! 🎸🧪🤘
Subscribed! Love your explanation here, going to dig deeper. Cheers!
Welcome aboard! 🎸🧪🤘
If we have purchased the bundle is this PDF included or do we need to purchase separately or is there a discount.
New PDFs are free for Patreon subscribers or can be purchased separately. The bundle covers the first 12 videos (which is the core of the method). If you sign up for my newsletter, you’ll get a discount code for individual PDF purchases
@@fretscience how do I get more information about your zoom classes. Do you record those?
Also just weny on your site. Couldn't find information about patreon.
The link for Patreon is in the video description. It just launched and the website hasn’t been updated yet. I’m not sure what you’re referring to when you ask about Zoom…I’m not currently offering any live classes
@@fretscience sorry my mistake. When you said lessons I assume there was some sort of live or zoom component. I see that you have some lesson plans that are included to patreoning subscribers. Do you have a sample of those that you're willing to share?
best video ever!!!! I have seen more than 50 videos in last month about memorizing the fretboard, but this is the best!
Much appreciated, thanks! 🎸🧪🤘
This is by far the most useful content I’ve ever found for guitar instruction. Visual high level concepts that challenge the player to solve for the sound vs memorizing dot locations. My guitar acumen has increased dramatically & I’m having more fun than ever! Thanks Keith!!
Much appreciated, Eric…cheers! 🎸🧪🤘
Man, that is a hell lf a video. Thanks mate.
Glad you liked it…cheers! 🎸🧪🤘
Wow As an ear player, intuitive only, I have memorized the fretboard….but only as sounds, not named, which makes it difficult to use your understanding except in visual form, but a warm up I do is to play the 4 forms you’ve showed of the 1st position D, I didn’t realize straight across 2nd fret was a D major 7! And diminished & sus chords are nearby just by string omission. But I can still use this info by searching for these simplified chord shapes in a chord book, the open strings you showed just gave me a 5th form of the D, so your direct & simple explanation of moving the 3rd or omitting a string to get different voice is very useful. I’m old, Bar chords literally hurt, so I need to find ways to play chords without barring a fret!😵💫 I started as a bass player, because of my knack for understanding single note lines, but with no band, I went back to guitar, music as notation and a spoken language is not how my brain works, and intervals as chords has not come easy, although as chord tones my brain gets it, in the context of solos so my practice routine (& my love of improv) is to jam with the masters on Pandora, but it’s pretty much all Jazz, because I #1 wanted to learn the complexity intuitively, but also the parts before the solo sections & the endings jazz is not heavily compressed like Rock, so the modes and notes and key are all easier to hear. Same sets over and over for years, so as I’m improvising….my brain can still hear those I jam to, although it’s not so much consciousness and I’m absorbing their technic, as well as theory all their licks, horns, keys, & guitar licks! my other goal was to play laterally, to escape the scale boxes, I also having knack for finding the octave notes on the fly both above and below my location on the neck. Example: Jean Luc Ponty taught me forths, on the violin it’s only tuned to 4ths, that opened my mind to the length of the fretboard, the latteral patterns and how the scale boxes connect. My journey started at a guitar clinic given by Joe Pass, but only when I retired did I get diligent about playing daily.
I’m glad you found something useful in the video…cheers! 🎸🧪🤘
The way you use graphics to detail the various interval relationships is the best I have ever seen.
Thank you! 🎸🧪🤘
Nerds are cool Thanks for the videos
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I feel like I just stumbled into some guitar secret society meeting and that the overlords are going to come after you for giving the secrets away. Your material is amazing and really makes playing so much more simple.
I have to admit that when I discovered a few of the methods in my videos, I wondered if there was a conspiracy among teachers to keep students coming back for more lessons 🤣🎸🧪🤘
I have to say that the production value of all of your videos is incredibly high. Im a beginner at soloing, but thanks to your it starts to sound really good more often. Cheers from Austria!
That’s awesome to hear…cheers! 🎸🧪🤘
Another engineer chiming in: great stuff.
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very nice
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Excellent video. Very organized and easy to follow. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it! 🎸🧪🤘
What happened to your previously awesome audio?
Long story…short version is that I monitored it on a different system and didn’t do a good job eq’ing it.
I love the way you have broken this subject down. This is the first video that has made sense to me, holy crap; thank you.
That’s great to hear…welcome aboard! 🎸🧪🤘
Thank you! Subbed. Looking forwarding to this series and learning from you! Very clearly explained!
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Thanks for this very valuable lesson. I'm glad I've stumbled upon this, thanks for the YT recommendation. I'm fairly new to guitar, learned just last year about this "cowboy chords" and just brought my Fender Stratocaster USA as an upgrade to my Walmart guitar.🤭 Apart from this, what lesson on your channel would you recommend for me to learn the basics of basic soloing over chords like this? I have no idea what triads and modes are, or what are the I, II, IV numbers. But this video made clear a few of those.😄...... Thank you very much, mate.👌SUBSCRIBED!🔥
Glad you’re here! This playlist has my recommended viewing order: kzread.info/head/PLMuHlX9RiFi1L1RdC0CzYa1qxZllD5Ujz&si=DX6UkmpwgTffFnIb My next video(s) will be explicitly about soloing over chords.
@@fretscience Thanks a lot my friend. I really learned a lot from this chords lesson👌 I'm gonna watch your playlist....and I'm looking forward to the "soloing over chords" lesson. That couples with this will really make you a well-rounded guitarist. Cheers!😀
Really good information and video. Easy to understand and listen to as well. Thank you for posting.
Much appreciated, thanks! 🎸🧪🤘
I have to say I’ve long known all this stuff, but your video is the clearest such tutorial I’ve seen here on You Tube, and is recommended to all beginners.
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I have been playing guitar for almost 1 1/2 yrs now and I've also been learning CS along the way and your videos make everything so crystal clear. You are my favorite guitar resource and i sit and study all of your content. Thank you so so much for these amazing videos <3 !
I saw the cat shirt and had to get one instantly, happy to support anyways :)
Much appreciated, thanks! 🎸🧪🤘
this is so good but please get a better mic
Looks like I did a lousy job eq’ing this one 🧐
Best guitar content on KZread! Thank you so much!
Much appreciated, thanks! 🎸🧪🤘
immediate thumbs up even before watching the vid
Cheers! 🎸🧪🤘
Keith, I don't even comment on YT videos, but I will because you are THE MOST BRILLIANT TEACHER putting content out there. I'm also a CS background person who's been playing for 17 years and I shudder to think what would have been possible if I had this back when I started. Thank you so much for taking the time to do this, you are incredibly gifted and there is literally no more practical or compact representation of this information. You have innovated on the fundamental science of teaching guitar!
Much appreciated, thanks! 🎸🧪🤘
Thank you for making the guitar make sense for us CompSci dorks! More videos on chord theory (maybe harmonic functions?) would definitely be welcome.
Glad it was helpful! 🎸🧪🤘
Absolutely excellent job. Best explanation I’ve seen ever.
You’re too kind, but I’ll take it 🤣🎸🧪🤘
Thanks for a detailed Caged chord visual lesson and its voicing variation played all over the fretboard.
Cheers! 🎸🧪🤘
I have a really simple question about something that's been holding me back. Whenever I see a fingerboard diagram it seems wrong to me. For example, at 3:00 a diagram is shown. I like the fact that the nut is to my left when viewing it, but why is the Low E string at the bottom? If I turn the guitar to face me (with the nut to the left) it looks that way, but when holding the guitar to play it the Low E string is at the top because I am behind it. When practicing in front of a mirror the nut is also to the left and the Low E string is at the top in the reflection. If the diagrams matched this it would be a whole lot easier for me because I wouldn't have to translate in my mind what the positions are. Am I the only one who thinks this way? Because of how hard it is to follow along with what I feel are "wrong" diagrams it has impeded my ability to learn from tutorials such as these. Thanks for any input anyone may have. --Retired IT guy
I understand your frustration, and I wish there was a good universal solution. The orientation I’m using has been the standard in guitar books for decades, I think because it’s like looking down at the fretboard from above while you’re playing (assuming you are right-handed). It’s worth getting used to this orientation if you want to use most guitar resources. On the bright side, one of the good things about the Fret Science approach is that you won’t need diagrams for long…the system is designed so that you learn a handful of small patterns and then apply them to the fretboard without referring to a diagram.
@@fretscience Thanks for the reply. I think your system is the most accessible which is why I chose to post my query here. Maybe it's time for another approach to how the charts are presented. I can no more wrap my head around looking over the fingerboard from the top so that the Low E string is at the bottom any more than I can play video games without inverting the Y axis. I learned joysticks in the eighties when the stick represented your head. Push the stick forward and your head tilted forward (i.e. down). Pull the stick back to go up, as in how one would fly a plane. Maybe it's time for someone to embrace a change. After all left-handed guitars were created for left-handed people and the Reformation was created for people who thought differently. I don't want any credit for helping effect this alternate approach. Maybe it is a subject you wish to pursue. I don't think I'm "on the spectrum" but I think this small change might help more people than just me. I might be interested in purchasing your PDFs, but as things stand I would have to remap them according to what I have explained. I have laid an opportunity upon your table. We shall see if it bears fruit. You could "be the change". Kind regards.
@@fretscience Why would I want to "look... down at the fretboard from above while ... playing" when I can see it right in front of me right-side up when playing? Just pretend that the wood is not there blocking your vision and you're good-to-go. I think this way of visualizing the fingerboard makes sense.
Thanks for the content. Camera looks good. 0 issue with presentation, style, voice, volume, and clarity. However, the sound quality is really boxy. Check your EQ settings, maybe?
Interesting…it sounds okay on the systems I’ve tested it with. Not amazing, but not bad
@@fretscience Knowing I'm figuratively preaching to the choir, consider playing with EQ settings for your voice, putting a cut somewhere in the 350-600Hz region to reduce the boxy/hollow sound without needing to mess with soundproofing. It's more obvious with headphones. Again, great work overall, man. Thanks again.
@TrinityUser thanks…I made the mistake of monitoring the mix on speakers that hid that. Your remedy is spot-on. I just wish there was a way to update it on KZread after the initial upload!
Excellent.
Thank you! Cheers! 🎸🧪🤘
I know it, I play some or major of those , but I feel I need more and more and more .... so nice to hear from expert to slow down and chew what I already know rather then constantly chase new shapes , arpegios and triads. thank you
Keith, you are my hero, forever. I totally bought your pdfs and will keep on coming back to all the ressources
Much appreciated, thanks! 🎸🧪🤘
The open C-shape chord is easy to convert to sus2 by removing the ring finger on the D-string and by omitting the high-E entirely. Sounds great, use it a lot. I'm sure you knew and overlooked.
I’m sure that’s not the only useful voicing I missed! 🤣🎸🧪🤘
And here`s my comment for you, my dear guitar wizard Thank you so much
Cheers! 🎸🧪🤘
A thing I recently realised is, that the E, A & D shape chords are all similar. They just start from different strings. The same goes with G, C, and F shaped chords (F starting from the 4th string). The first group is build upwards on the fret over a powerchord. The second group is build going down the fretboard, starting with the basic triad shape. Thanks a lot for your content🙏! I actually discovered everything in this video on my own in the last months. But I'm pretty sure older videos of yours influenced me, since my approach and thought process was exactly how you explained it here.
The chord groups you mentioned are exactly that…the same chord shifted up a string set and modified by passing across the “warp”. I think the best possible outcome for my videos is that they help guitarists make additional discoveries on their own, so I do hope my previous videos played some part in that for you. Cheers! 🎸🧪🤘
YAY!!! More content from my favorite KZread guitar instructor!