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I loved this lesson. I'm a life-long musician, Berklee graduate, and guitar teacher for a decade and I found this lesson very insightful and efficient. It makes a lot of sense from a teaching aspect. It's the right amount of information on a topic that you can easily go WAY too deep into. (Thus confusing the student.) Hats off brother! Well done!
I have watched a few people teach guitar on youtube which was all good but I'm writing to complement your teaching and to say it is the most complete I have found, great teaching ! Butter fingers
+tyte liben machen In Tadjikistan, his country, it's a great compliment because having "fingers like butter" means you are a man of great power of seduction with the ladies.
To be honest I started practicing regularly about a year ago. Lately i've been searching everywhere for someway to truly get a grasp over the theory instead of bits and pieces of theory without the overall picture or the ability to apply it in practice. Not sure how much i've payed to different online courses but what I've learned here tonight surpases all the previous combined. Thank you sir
Steve, I have been "playing" since about 1964 and have been absolutely stuck, unable to make full use of my fretboard. I put my guitar away for several years and picked it back up about 6 years ago, still stuck. Since then, I have learned many of the shapes, both minor and major, but didn't know what to do with them. Until now. You are THE FIRST person to put it together for me. Until I saw this video, it never occurred to me that one shape or "position" is linked to any of the others like sequential links on a chain. I was drowning playing all the shapes at the same physical location on the fretboard, say fret 5, rather than moving from 5 to 7 for the second position. Obviously, I was unable to find any way to make use of the shapes. Now that I have seen this video, I can see where notes from the first position of the minor pentatonic are incorporated into the second position - just further up the fretboard. I always suspected - knew, actually - that there must be a "key" to unlocking the fretboard, something I was not seeing and missing altogether. I'm stunned that no one else on the web has ever pointed this out since it is obviously so fundamental. You have opened my eyes and for that I thank you. I'll be subscribing and taking this journey with you. I've got a lot of catching up to do. Thanks again.
Steve, after just this lesson my playing has improved drastically! I did the scales exercise in the video and now my improvisation skills are far beyond what they were before. you opened my eyes and hands. thank you.
Here is my story, I've being playing peoples songs on the guitar since 70's , however, never learned one bit of music notation on guitar fretboard. I am 57 hard carpenter with no much time 4 my love passion to practice my Gibson that I purchased in 1989. Listen to this kids, life is not getting any better 4 nobody, so if your dream is to be a guitar player, start paying attention on this guy lessons, he is top line professor, even I that never study none of that stuff and with my poor English can understand a lot. If I am in here, is because I already learned some good stuff from his others videos and began my day one yesterday on this lesson, that I will try my best to go till the end. I just want to said here to Steve, Thank You for these lessons and many blessings, I will contact you soon, Cheers! Great Job , you are the best.....and....your lessons Rock .
7 лет назад
Definitely the best teacher I've ever seen. And I'm not even a native english speaker and it's been easier to understand his lessons than the ones in my language (portuguese).
Hi Steve and thanks a lot. I think you might have given me the spark that I need to start playing and practicing again. Your tutorials are more helpful than anything I have seen in years and as you can see I am a cat so playing guitar can be pretty frustrating especially when I get sidetracked by anything that moves.
Wow, this helped out majorly. I took lessons 15 years ago, and while I still have pretty high capability to "copy" riffs, I lost the "theory" over the years....this REALLY kicked me back in gear! thanks!
Steve, thank you SO MUCH for these videos and your time. I used to be a good guitar player, but after a muscle disease I lost my muscle memoria, strength. This series of 12 lessons are great for me and I;m almost back again! Thank you-thank you and lots of thank yous. You're a great guy friend. Regards from Buenos Aires, Argentina
This is fantastic! Steve pointed out the exact problems I've been having, with being stuck on certain positions, and having to count up to find notes. Time to start practicing these scales and meandering!
On day 10, I know all the shapes now intuitively and all the notes on the E. I'm seeing new patterns every day. I have realized how much one scale can do , even if it's Pentatonic. 30 Mins to 1 hour of jamming every day surely does the ticks. thanks Steve
Wow. Done and done. The revelation came with the meandering. At first, it feels really difficult and then you start to connect the scales and it really locks it in.
I've been playing guitar for 20 years and I taught myself by ear learning how to play other peoples music. I'm pretty good at it ,but now that I'm older I've been wishing that I would've learned theory, scales and all my cords and done it the proper way so I understood why I was doing what I was doing . And so I can write with a purpose instead of jamming until it sounds good lol. i've been trying to find a way to break all my bad habits and start over as a beginner and haven't really found a positive way to do that, until I found your videos they've been incredibly helpful with teaching me what I should've learned to begin with and helping me get out of my old bad habits i actually have an understanding of what to do when where and most importantly why. I look at my guitar completely differently now.if I would've done all the stuff 20 years ago like I should have there's no telling where I would be thank you for your videos and your knowledge and for getting me unstuck, it's terrible to have been playing as long as I have been and be as good musically and to have no true understanding of any of it, never being able to do anything with purpose and it makes you feel like you are a bad guitar player, even if you are not. I've tried to learn this stuff before but it never made any sense. Your lessons and exercises are very clear to me and made it super easy. I feel like I went from beginner to pro in a week.
I teach this to my students and I really like your idea of focusing on memorizing the notes using the dots. Great to use as an anchor for learning the other frets. Thanks for sharing this approach.
Steve is by far the best instructor on the internet. He has truly mastered the guitar and teaching technique. I have looked at them all and keep coming back to Steve. Great demeanor and teaching ability.
I just discovered this series of vids, and love how Steve teaches. I wish you had been around 35 years ago. I am learning things in even the most basic of your vids, Thnxs!
Life is full of surprises. I couldn't imagine I will be inspired to learn music theory by man with pink Guitar 8))). This was really clear and logical explanation I heard and watched so far. You are great guitar teacher. Thank you for the lesson.
huge help in memorizing these is that the index-pinky combo for all 5 positions happens on 1+3 and 5+7 of the penta-scales. if you know the 1/3/5/7 for your key and where those notes are on the fretboard, everything else is a whole step :D took me years to see this realization (a-c + e-g in the a-minor example used for the video) kudos on the killer info and lesson!
Id like to thank you Steve for sharing this with us.You're making it connect much easier than I thought it would be.Been struggling with that for years. You're a great teacher man
My meandering stuff. Has gotten tighter faster and sounds better when I took your advise . I now try in my practice , to think ahead . My focus is better on what I am doing. I see an improvement in my meandering. Thank you .
started playing since 11 years ago, one would think im pretty good but these last days has been the first time I actually dedicated 1-2 hours of each day for guitar theory and theese kind of drills. Thanks alot, it will help me and my band do progress faster.
this is what I've been looking for. someone to actually give me a direction to going in with guitar instead of just random online videos. Thank you steve. I will surely be Giving this my all!
First lesson I've seen that starting tying some of those basics together. Perfect for me to advance with. Thank you so much! Been playing folk guitar for 50 years and now I'm starting to "get it"!
been playing guitar for 15 years off and on and for the first time i think i might be able to finally understand the fretboard like i can understand the piano!
this is absolutely amazing and im excited watching and learning this, I have waited 10 years for someone to explain this, this easily to me without thinking i need to go to college, I might finally learn some theory!!!! thank you so much guitar world!
Hi Steve.I drive a truck but I want to learn to play the guitar and I am taking my acoustic with me and every spare moment I have I will be putting your skills into action.Thanks again.
I have tried for so many years to master the fretboard and learn theory, but ended up mostly confused and reverting to playing first position and barre chords. One day in, and I feel optimistic for the first time that this will help me break out and become a better, more knowledgeable guitar player.
IVE WATCHED THESE 12 VIDEOS IVE BEEN PLAYING FOR YEARS BUT NOT WELL AFTER WATCHING THESE LESSONS I FINALLY CAN PUT ALL THESE CORDS AND SHAPES TO MAKE SENCE THANKS YOU ARE WICKED GOOD AND NOW I CAN HEAR MUSIC AND FIND IT BEST LESSONS IVE EVER SEEN ALL 12 OF THEM
To everyone who is struggling with meandering with a metronome. I also had trouble meandering. I found that if you meander to a slow song in the background instead of a metronome, it becomes much easier. Although you might have to find the right position in which the key of the song is in.
You're a really good teacher which is something a lot of people don't have in them in the guitar world; you either find a good guitar player or a good guitar teacher but you are both. Lol I am beginning this course today and I'll check in with you every month to see how I make progress. Thank you.
Finally starting to be able to improvise a little. Before I had no concept of this. Now I can improvise although not amazing, but that's what I've always wanted.
(Justa cliff's-notes version for those that have come back to get main "bullet points") A) Memorize Minor and Major Pentatonic scales in A. Try to learn all five positions, or at least positions 1,2 and 5. B) Memorize and "absolutely" know the notes / frets of 6th string. C) practice meandering.
You make it look so easy, I'm playing like a spastic but you sure inspire me to keep going! Thanks so much for putting the time and sharing these, can't tell you how grateful I am. I'm picking up my guitar after over 10 years of not touching it. Baby steps, here we go:)
Just discovered your Absolute Fretboard Mastery Series yesterday, I started using your techniques right away. I am really excited as to what I night sound like in 1 years time,the intermediate musts for practice was a real eye opener as I discovered my weaknesses immediately .Also it has changed my entire concept of how I few the fretboard. Looking forward with higher hopes than before, I will post again in a month or so.
Steve, Very well done. You've got the gift of teaching, I've been playing and teaching guitar for years, and have stalled out basically. I've learned much from you. I'm a classical guitarist and am beginning to appreciate the beauty of the electric. On the lesson: I was with you totally up to about 3:45 when you talk about "connecting" and "positions". Positions to me were: 1st position is 1st fret, 2nd position is 2nd fret, etc. What I'm hearing you say is that 2nd position for the key is the 2nd note in the scale. You shift, but don't mention "shifting", and I rewound the video probably a dozen times or more to watch the left hand finger pattern. I guess what I'm saying is, even though you don't say it, I memorized the minor pentatonic scale as "1-4, 1-3, 1-3, 1-3 1-4, and 1-4, and am very comfortable with that, and can kind of "meander" fairly well within that. What I'm not good at yet is meandering up and down the fretboard. Would it be helpful to learn the "fingerings" in those other positions? I'm not entirely sure what I'm asking, except that I see in "2nd position" the pattern is, "2-4, 1-4,, 1-4, 1-3, (shift 1/2 step higher), 1-3, 1-3. In other words I don't want to start thinking "finger patterns" if that is missing the point you're making, and I'm just too focused on a way I've used to learn my other scales. Hope all of this makes sense.
Hi Steve, I've been playing fairly regularly except for a stint in Vietnam, for 60 years. Can figure out by ear most any song I hear and like, primarily late 60's up to mid 70's rock, yea I know, old guy! Lol. My fingers always know where to go for chords and riffs, but just now learning the entire fretboard with your help. Thanks for all the free instructions, much appreciated. Have a good one, Doug
You Sir are a great teacher! You explain things very clearly in an easy to understand way. I've been playing for 30 years and only ever played 'by ear', even lead work. But I think it's finally time to master the fret board and learn some proper scales and music theory. I'm going to watch this whole series and hopefully learn a lot along the way. This first video alone has been great in teaching me how to expand the pentatonic box shape across the entire fret board. Thanks man! :-)
Thank you for this lesson! I have been meaning to learn the notes on the bass neck, but for some reason I can never sit myself down to do it. There are a few factors causing this, but then I had the same idea that you are teaching and that is to learn the notes where the dots are first. Now I can get a move on! Tanks for the inspiration!!
Sir, you are a great teacher, you are absolutely a blessing for all of us who are crazy for guitar, continue to teach, this series is complete package, thank you so much.
ive have just brought an electric guitar, im a beginner/inter and this is going to help no end as i have never done pent scales and now looking forward to following this course of lessons. great job bud
First of all, I like that shake-it-up hot pink! My own (acoustic/electric) guitar is blinding fire engine red red red! Secondly, thanks for lifting the fog about the mystical fretboard. Also, I appreciate your professionalism and production quality. Neither one grows on trees.
This guy is the god of teaching guitar, i seriously mean it! He is very good at what he does and even though music theory can be hard he makes it look easier! :D
Dude, it does not take a month to memorize the Amin Pentatonic positions...I just did it in 30 minutes, and the only one I knew for sure at the start of this video was the standard one that everyone else knows (5-8, 5-7, 5-7, 5-7, 5-8, 5-8). All you have to do is remember those notes by ear even and just go up the fretboard and always start on the low E string. Super simple but I thank you for this, because I never even thought to do that before.
Dude thank you! I was stuck at the first position and did not know how they related! Even though you were rushing, I learned more here than in other video!
Been looking for some time for a real decent guitar teacher online and this has to be the best ive found. I can finally relate to what he talks about and its actually clear and to the point. Plus i dont feel like im watching a video with steve, its like hes teaching just me which i think will really help. Great video. Subscribed and look forward to seeing more :)
Hey man i really appreciate this. Im a horn player transitioning to guitar and this is a perfect basic fundamental approach to getting around on the axe! Bless up braddah!!
This is fantastic! How does anyone unlike your videos? You explain things very, very well. Exercises are very good too. I've been playing guitar for ages, but never really learned how to solo (I was a drummer first). These lessons are just what I was looking for to build speed and strength and to learn the actual theory behind what I'm doing. Top shelf Steve!
I really appreciate Steve's high expectations of viewers on learning this in a month but don't be discouraged if it takes longer. I learned this in the key of E from a diagram of the guitar fretboard divided into five interlocking "boxes" with box 1 (in frets open-3) starting on open E (6th string) with dots on the rest of the notes of the scale ending on open E (1st string). The finger placement dots on each box diagram going up the neck forms a visual pattern. I learned each box's visual pattern without having to be concerned with naming each note. That came as I practiced the visual patterns and farted around with a keyboard. To play in key of A as Steve shows here, Box 1 (in E key) is shifted up to the fifth fret with boxes 4 and 5 now shifted down below the 5th fret. A best serves to illustrate the meandering concept which I found useful. Some may find the "Box Method" helpful to understanding what Steve is laying down
im playing for like 6 months, im learning realy fast, i can do some guns n roses covers. But im stuck with that scales, and your lesson is awesome, Liked & Subscribe !
I wish I had this fantastic video and lesson series when I started playing years ago! People, this method of learning the fretboard is genius. Trust me.
Great video, really thorough and hits all the key points. I'm a beginner guitarist and this really made me feel more comfortable with the fret board just watching it.
awesome tutorial I've been pretty much practicing everything here already but I still am clueless for the most part as to what each note is etc. so that part of the video is really beneficial keep up the great work Steve you teach very well.
This is so crazy. I once learned the 1. minor shape and didnt move along. I picked the guitar up again 10 years later, finally found this video and find me meandering over the whole neck after 1 day. Thanks a lot.
