A road trip from Massachusetts to the Woodshed Guitar Experience in Crossville, by way of Cleveland, Nashville, and the Martin factory. What I saw, who I met, and what I brought back for Fret Science.

The conventional wisdom is that there are no shortcuts to becoming a good musician. On guitar, that is patently false. In this video, I share three…

I've been working on the idea for this video for a few months. It started as a reaction to one of Rick Beato's livestreamed "the ultimate guitar fretboard…

Improvising solos over chord changes can be intimidating—but it doesn't have to be! If you can find one note by name, anywhere on the fretboard, you can…

This technique was an epiphany. Once I figured out that you could shift pentatonic scale shapes up or down in response to chord changes, my melodic soloing…

A high level overview and detailed syllabus for the Fret Science: Improv 101 course

As a way of releasing content much more frequently, and as a way to make motivate myself to make more progress on the future Fret Science book, I'm…

Cowboy chords, often criticized by experienced guitarists, can unlock hundreds of chord variations across the fretboard by mastering just five of them. These chords are essential for AC/DC’s rhythm guitar sound, effective capo usage, and quick learning of triads across the fretboard. Check out the video for more details.

The Fret Science method connects music theory concepts like CAGED, 3NPS, pentatonic scales, triads, and major scale modes to master the fretboard. This approach provides a big picture view, enabling improvisation by visualizing the notes as a palette of sounds. Watch the video for a concise explanation.

Jack Ruch is one of my favorite guitar YouTubers because of his beautifully lyrical phrasing and excellent teaching style. He recently released a tribute to…

Why do so many guitar players resist learning the notes on the fretboard? This is my most complex set of animations so far, built in service of the simplest…

Instantly create harmonized solo guitar lines with parallel 3rds and 6ths

New video! Intervals give you the keys to unlocking the fretboard. Learn a simple method for identifying the interval between any two notes on the fretboard, and see how to use that knowledge to better understand (and modify) any chord voicing.

The three-notes-per-string system is by far one of the best ways to navigate the fretboard both vertically and horizontally. It's easy to learn, and with this method, there's 85% less memorization.

What are the major scale modes? How do they relate to the pentatonic scale? What on earth is "brightness ordering"? All this and more are explained herein!

If you already know the pentatonic scale anywhere on the fretboard, you can instantly access the major scale modes by understanding how the modes relate to the pentatonic scale and to each other. This is a significantly expanded and improved version of an approach described in a previous video.

This ~16 minute video deconstructs the CAGED system using easy-to-understand animated building blocks (over 150 animations!), starting with triads, adding on pentatonic scales, and finishing with the major scale modes. This is everything you need to unlock the fretboard and get started improvising.

The thumbnail is a teeny bit hyperbolic, but it's not clickbait! The rectangle and the stack are the easiest way to make the most of the pentatonic scale.

Learn the simple five-string pattern that completely unlocks the modes across the entire fretboard.

How does the quirky tuning of the G and B strings affect scales and chords? Learn to traverse "the warp" and use the circle of fifths to navigate the fretboard with 80% less memorization. See how it applies to triads, the pentatonic scale, and soloing in the blues.

Our first YouTube video! If you already know the pentatonic scale anywhere on the fretboard, you can instantly access the modes by understanding how the modes relate to the pentatonic scale and to each other.

Guitarists can learn some valuable lessons from the field of cognitive science. Understanding of the limitations of working memory in the human brain is one of them.

Make beautiful fingerpicked harmonies just like The Beatles did.

This mental model will have you playing beautiful harmonized licks instantly.

If you know the right way of thinking about the penatonic scale, learning the blues scale couldn't be easier.

A new way to visualize and navigate pentatonic scales across the entire fretboard, with 85% less memorization than the CAGED system.

Many guitarists learn and memorize diatonic scales, pentatonic scales, and triad arpeggios as three separate concepts, but they are intimately related, and it’s beneficial to learn each as an overlay on the next.

"The Rectangle" is a handy place to access all seven diatonic modes in a four-fret span on just two strings.

The link between pentatonic scales and the diatonic modes has been staring you in the face all along. And it’s both the key to quickly pivoting from one scale to another and an easy way to add color to your pentatonic soloing.

If you know 3nps, now you also know your "in-position" scales.