*NEW:* I'm currently rolling out *Improv 101,* a step-by-step improvisation course for guitarists of _all ability levels_ (there are _no_ prerequisites other than being able to physically play single-note lines on your guitar). You can get early access on Patreon patreon.com/fretscience or learn more at fretscience.com/2024/10/25/fret-science-improv-101/ Fret Science is a new and robust method for understanding the fretboard (learning all of your scales, arpeggios, and chords) with _dramatically_ less memorization. And then using that knowledge to improvise and play freely in _any_ style of music. The core method for learning scales and chords is available _for free_ here on TH-cam. If you're new to the channel, I invite you to check out the "Big Picture" video and recommended video viewing order here: th-cam.com/play/PLMuHlX9RiFi1L1RdC0CzYa1qxZllD5Ujz.html&si=cOp25GnXrL28rbLQ If you want to go deeper or interact with me directly, come join me on Patreon patreon.com/fretscience where I'm sharing exclusive new lessons, breaking down classic solos, and rolling out a new improvisation method that will help guitarists of _all ability levels_ learn to improvise confidently over chord changes in any style. You can also connect with me at fretscience.com or support my work with a donation at buymeacoffee.com/fretscience 🎸🧪🤘
Instead of mindlessly memorizing fretboard scales this makes so much more sense to me! I finally feel like this is worth my time memorizing the fretboard since it's based on a simple logic I can apply anywhere. It also helps a lot mastering a 7-string guitar. With that being said: Yeah science and SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!
I am a Guitarist and secondary school (12-18 year olds) music teacher of 25 years. This by far the best video I have ever seen giving a practical approach to putting scale and harmonic theory onto the fret board. Absolutely love it... Thank you for your great work.
As someone coming from a piano background and trying to make sense of the fretboard I cannot thank you enough. This video has taught me more in 15 minutes than any other source has in the 6 months I've been attempting to learn. I really appreciate this video's focus on bridging the gap between theory and shapes as all other videos seemed to focus on the latter without really explaining why these shapes work!
This is the best explanation I have ever seen. There are so many so called teachers on TH-cam that can’t explain this, I get it now, so many lightbulb moments here. You just put my puzzled brain back into pieces. Thank you so much.
For me it took many years to reach this point. Nobody showed it to me, I had to discover it. This video is one of the best to understand triads, scales, pentatonic, modes and most important: How are all these linked and connected. To understand this and to work on it constantly gives freedom and joy to my playing. And it never ends because behind every door there is another. at least. Thank you very much!
Top class stuff this guy is unreal imagine all the video editing he has to do for these detailed diagrams it’s not simple great job thanks my man cheers from Ireland 🇮🇪!!! Brian
These lessons have been a Godsend. My playing has improved tremendously and my understanding of the fretboard has been growing exponentially. Thank you for helping me out of a decade long rut. 💯🎸
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.
The video is amazing you know the "Rectangle Triad Pentatonic" is something new after two decades of learning guitar this is the first time someone teaches this 2 a humble server...
This is the second or third time I've watched this video, and probably the fifth time I've read through the cheatsheet, and I'm finally, finally, finally "getting" it. Starting with the Am pentatonic, I put my index finger on A (6th string, 5th fret) and followed first the rectangle, then the stack all the way to the 1st string - and it works!!! Amazing. Did the same with my ring finger on the same A and followed the first stack (up), then the stack all the way to the 1st string. Thank you for sharing this mental framework with us - it's life-changing.
I am 71 years old and your videos break things down in a way that I just love! They have helped me tremendously! I feel like you keep giving me "cheat sheets" for a learning exam! Thank you for your hard work, well done!
Amen brother. I'm right there with you. Just imagine at our age we can actually get up on stage with people rolling their eyes at us and we kick some major butt. It will happen. Knowledge, correct practice, technique and soul is power, no matter out age.
The best applied music theory videos I have ever seen, bar none! The only "complaint" anyone could ever have, is that you manage to pack so much information into 15 minutes, others would probably make 4 videos out of it. Important to make sure you have internalized every aspect before you move on to the next, or valuable information might just get washed away. Thank you so much for your efforts, you're awesome!
It’s my secret plan to sell more PDFs 🤣…in all seriousness, I think the great thing about TH-cam is that you can easily go back and rewatch the parts you missed. I’m a signal processing engineer by training, so maximizing signal-to-noise ratio is my m.o…thanks for your kind words! 🎸🧪🤘
Totally agree. I would also love to see some suggestions on exercises you can practice to internalize all this. But the videos themselves are great, this is eye-opening.
I agree , love the high level instruction but as a beginner to theory i can only handle 5 mins at a time before comprehension is seriously diminished . Breaking these down but keeping them in a logical order would be great and get way more views ! Just a thought .
These videos have been great for me, want to seriously thank you for your effort, time and passion to do this. Connecting the dots would be the biggest understatement of the century of what you have brought to my playing with these concepts.
What a great illuminating video. No meandering talk, no anecdotes, no telling people how much they suck at guitar. You deserve a million subscribers. Great channel. Subbed.
different voicings of same triad 5:14 moving major triads shapes down each string 6:05 3 basic major triad shapes 7:14 adjusting 3rds and 5ths of major triads to make different triads 7:48
Ming-bogglingly good stuff! What I love about this lesson is the layer concept, building up from roots to chord tones to pentatonics to modes. So helpful to see how all of these come together in a stack. I'm doing a deep dive on chord tones right now and already know my pentatonic shapes (and how to build them almost instantly with the rectangle and stack). After watching this video, I have a leg up now that I know how to see the chord tones within the pentatonics. Brilliant! Leaning each of the layers you show in the video may take a bit of time, but so worth it for the freedom I'm already starting to feel moving around the fretboard. Such a musical confidence boost and my playing has taken a very satisfying leap forward. Thank you for laying out this valuable information! I deeply appreciate the care and thoughtfulness you've put into each of your videos.
Unbelievable! For most of us who started our guitar playing journeys as beginners in the late 80s and early 90s this information would have been a godsend. Sadly I spent much of my time either noodling, watching REH videos and taking lessons from teachers who really didn't have the fretboard science knowledge themselves. Oh, how I envy young people of today who are about to start their journey into learning the guitar. Thanks you.
The number of times this guy has absolutely melted my mind with supernova like moments of realization is astonishing. Every video it’s like the Big Bang in my cranium.
Finally, a video title that rings true for me! :46 Boom! great overlay/comparison for someone highly sensitive to patterns but couldn't quite tie it all together. Thanks!
Just realized how fitting your brand name is. You've proven there's a logic / science to music and how it relates to a fretboard!! Well done professor!
The name is a bit of a double-edged sword. I definitely believe that logic makes learning the fretboard much easier, but then you’ve got to transcend it to make good music!
My head hurts, but I think I'm starting to get it. Shapes and sounds that I used to randomly hunt for are actually parts of predictable and reliable system. Thank you sir!
It may help to watch a couple of the other videos that support this one, specifically the pentatonic scale lesson and the “hidden in plain sight” approach to modes. This playlist is the recommended viewing order, but definitely feel free to skip around: th-cam.com/play/PLMuHlX9RiFi1L1RdC0CzYa1qxZllD5Ujz.html&si=DY3OQ99jeJeRw-NS 🎸🧪🤘
What a great video as it fully explains the entire guitar theory that everyone who loves playing guitar is hungry for. GB you the provider and presenter.
This really is the best, most logical way to describe and map the guitar fretboard for creating music with chords and melodies. Seeing your videos is like having my mental process explained after-the-fact . . . Now I'm going to bug you to finish the job by adding the "interval ear training part" that explains the value of your "rectangle" and "stack" visuals. When I finally became free on the fretboard, it was because I realized that, wherever a finger was resting on a "root note", I could crank out a minor pentatonic by hitting the note two frets below (a minor 7th) or three frets above (a minor third) and continuing in the pentatonic shape I already knew from hard experience. And similarly, I could play a major pentatonic by hitting the note two frets *above* the root (a major 2nd) or three frets *below* (a major 6th) and continuing in a familiar pentatonic pattern. Yes, I had to know what the right pentatonic pattern would be in order to do that. Your video is showing them to anyone who hasn't already learned them. Better yet, your "rectangle" sounds like the opening riff of "Layla" (5 - b7 - 1 - b3 - 1 - b7 - 1) and your "stack" makes the sound of Jimmy Page's fast middle riff from "Dazed and Confused" (4 - 5 - b7 - 1 - b3 - 4 - b3 - 1). Then my ear and fingers can add in all the color notes I care to do. Long comment to say a short kudo and a plea for guitar tone examples . . . cheers!
I left that as an exercise for the viewer 🤣 In all seriousness, I will likely do a video about how to learn how intervals sound in different contexts…it is an area that can’t really be taught directly-you have to do a fair amount of work to train yourself to associate interval names with the tonal “colors” you hear. As you can see, I have some work to do before I can explain it clearly.
Massive thank you Keith - purchased the 'cheat sheet'. The cheat sheet fully complements the video and is strongly recommended to anyone practising these concepts - massive thank you
Another great video helping connect ideas together. Major kudos on the improvisation hierarchy, what a way to think about it. Also, my software engineering brain is liking the structure of this series a lot. Thank you, Fret Science!
Thank you, this has helped identify the ‘missing dots’ that was holding back my understanding! I have just downloaded your cheat sheets, I know I’ll glean a lot of useful information from them, this video just proved it! 👍
I am currently practicing minor pentatonic scales and I had already come with the realizing that what really matters is where the root is under your fingers and not the chord type that a box is supposed to fit into. I just found your channel and I think that the way that you look at the fretboard matches very well with the way that I have started to look at it based on my intuition. I subscribed inmediately.
Finally, finally, it was shown to me in a clear, understandable way that was exactly what I was looking for, and it couldn’t be any better, thank you!!!
Well that is just a fantastic video........... I have been getting so confused with CAGED, triads and scales and connecting them, but that is the best explanation ever. Many thanx
I rarely put comments into these guitar related videos but here I am. I really appreciate these kinds of videos ( btw I watched the entire playlist, these types of videos when you search them they are in the bottom part but for me thanks to TH-cam recommendations that I stumbled across your channel, I do now understand what Paul Davids is saying "everything is connected" and this playlist is really an eye opener. You deserve more subscribers and views man. There are literally other content creators out there who taught fragments of these and ended up selling you their lessons. Cheers🥂.
Thanks for your kind words! I believe all of these basics should be available freely, and it’s been a great experience for me to try to pass on the nuggets of wisdom I struggled to gather.
I hope you outgrow these videos much sooner than that, but thank you, Matt! Be sure to sign up for the mailing list to stay on top of Fret Science content that’s not on TH-cam 🎸🧪🤘
I really connect with the way you teach and would strongly suggest that if someone is have trouble leaning with other guitar videos, STOP HERE and invest your time wisely and learn with the fret science videos. They are both excellent and unique.
Great video Keith. Like your other presentations I will have to watch it a few times to absorb the details. You have covered a lot of ground in 15 minutes. Thanks for your hard work. Cheers
Wow, my head is exploiting...so many useful information in just one short video clip. I have to rewatch this often times and memorize all the nuggets but I am pretty sure this will help me to gain more confidence while improvising over the fretboard a lot. Keep the work up, it is great! You deserve millions subscribers!
By far the best, most succinct and information packed video about CAGED I’ve ever seen. I have a lot of work to do. Thank you for opening up the fretboard to all of us here💙🎶🎸👏🏻
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: th-cam.com/video/tpC115zjKiw/w-d-xo.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 🎸🧪🤘
Great video and Thank you for showing another way to learn. It's opened a great way to learn and see the fretboard. Amazing videos and teaching methods. Thank you and looking forward to what's next
Excellent presentation, graphic and explanation! Well done! Toward the end I was thinking I needed a color legend on every screen (you do) and then right there at the end you offered a cheat sheet. Thanks~
Oh my goodness, if I had learned this forty years ago…. This is so organized and de-mystifying. Its so good that I don’t want to share it, ha ha. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!
Man Keith (I assume this is Keith based on my ability to recognize voices...), this video is awesome! My chaotic, creative, artistic, (left-handed) self have been seeking a channel like this for years! Thank you so much for assembling this stuff in a way that makes sense for us oddballs who can't conform. hehe. In all seriousness, you are killing it, bro! Please keep it up!
Thanks so much for this video and others you do ! I'm a lefty so I have to look at these charts backward....not much fun but doable with patience. C maj triad chart : 4:29
Thank you 🙏🏻 I get it, though it may take some time to wrap my mind around it fully. Seems pretty simple, and I may have to unlearn a few things. Old dog, new tricks. Also appreciate the .pdfs, and I'll be watching this video quite a few more times.
Thanks, Scott! If what you learned before is working, there’s no need to unlearn it. The best possible outcome is to have multiple mental models you can access as best fits the context 🎸🧪🤘
The way im seeing music as a noob is..... The major scale is like the alphabet. The guitar is my sheet of paper in which to put all the letters of the alphabet into coherent words, sentences, phrases etc ....learning how to spell words is meaningless if you don't understand the whole alphabet. Learning to play a song is fine if thats all your after, but understanding the magic of music and how literally EVERYTHING is connected requires the knowledge of the major scales. CAGED, modes, pentatonics etc all flow on from it..... The light bulb moments im having from this is breathtaking
These lessons are incredibly powerful! Thank you so much for the amazingly clear explanations. Do you have any exercise videos or an exercise book I can buy?
Not quite yet, but there’s a book and a more step-by-step exercise-driven video course in the works. You can get on the mailing list at fretscience.com to stay up to date. Thanks for your kind words! 🎸🧪🤘
Wow Matey here is full on, but direct to the point. I'm going to unpack all of this slowly, but luckily I do understand most of this, but never had it explained like this before, an amazing resource for all guitar players, Top Job👏👍
A great video, as always! Many thanks!!! I also have a question, the 3rd and 5th positions shouldn't be the other way around at min 7:29? diagrams are ok while narrative is misleading
I double-checked the part you mentioned, and I believe it’s correct. When I’m using the word “above”, I mean higher in pitch, not physically higher above the floor when you hold the guitar. So the B string is “above” the G string the way I’m describing it
*NEW:* I'm currently rolling out *Improv 101,* a step-by-step improvisation course for guitarists of _all ability levels_ (there are _no_ prerequisites other than being able to physically play single-note lines on your guitar). You can get early access on Patreon patreon.com/fretscience or learn more at fretscience.com/2024/10/25/fret-science-improv-101/
Fret Science is a new and robust method for understanding the fretboard (learning all of your scales, arpeggios, and chords) with _dramatically_ less memorization. And then using that knowledge to improvise and play freely in _any_ style of music.
The core method for learning scales and chords is available _for free_ here on TH-cam. If you're new to the channel, I invite you to check out the "Big Picture" video and recommended video viewing order here: th-cam.com/play/PLMuHlX9RiFi1L1RdC0CzYa1qxZllD5Ujz.html&si=cOp25GnXrL28rbLQ
If you want to go deeper or interact with me directly, come join me on Patreon patreon.com/fretscience where I'm sharing exclusive new lessons, breaking down classic solos, and rolling out a new improvisation method that will help guitarists of _all ability levels_ learn to improvise confidently over chord changes in any style.
You can also connect with me at fretscience.com or support my work with a donation at buymeacoffee.com/fretscience
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Instead of mindlessly memorizing fretboard scales this makes so much more sense to me! I finally feel like this is worth my time memorizing the fretboard since it's based on a simple logic I can apply anywhere. It also helps a lot mastering a 7-string guitar.
With that being said: Yeah science and SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!
Thanks so much for your kind words and support…science FTW! 🎸🧪🤘
I am a Guitarist and secondary school (12-18 year olds) music teacher of 25 years. This by far the best video I have ever seen giving a practical approach to putting scale and harmonic theory onto the fret board. Absolutely love it... Thank you for your great work.
Thanks for your kind words! 🎸🧪🤘
As someone coming from a piano background and trying to make sense of the fretboard I cannot thank you enough. This video has taught me more in 15 minutes than any other source has in the 6 months I've been attempting to learn. I really appreciate this video's focus on bridging the gap between theory and shapes as all other videos seemed to focus on the latter without really explaining why these shapes work!
That’s fantastic to hear! 🎸🧪🤘
This is the best explanation I have ever seen. There are so many so called teachers on TH-cam that can’t explain this, I get it now, so many lightbulb moments here. You just put my puzzled brain back into pieces. Thank you so much.
Thanks for your kind words, Don! 🎸🧪🤘
For me it took many years to reach this point. Nobody showed it to me, I had to discover it. This video is one of the best to understand triads, scales, pentatonic, modes and most important: How are all these linked and connected. To understand this and to work on it constantly gives freedom and joy to my playing. And it never ends because behind every door there is another. at least.
Thank you very much!
Cheers! 🎸🧪🤘
Top class stuff this guy is unreal imagine all the video editing he has to do for these detailed diagrams it’s not simple great job thanks my man cheers from Ireland 🇮🇪!!! Brian
Thanks, Brian…much appreciated! 🎸🧪🤘
These lessons have been a Godsend. My playing has improved tremendously and my understanding of the fretboard has been growing exponentially. Thank you for helping me out of a decade long rut. 💯🎸
That is awesome to hear…thank you! 🎸🧪🤘
This is seriously one of the best lessons I've ever seen on this subject!
Thanks so much, Andrew! 🎸🧪🤘
@@fretscience You're most welcome. Cheers!
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.
This is one of the best guitar videos on TH-cam.
Thanks! 🎸🧪🤘
The video is amazing you know the "Rectangle Triad Pentatonic" is something new after two decades of learning guitar this is the first time someone teaches this 2 a humble server...
This is the second or third time I've watched this video, and probably the fifth time I've read through the cheatsheet, and I'm finally, finally, finally "getting" it.
Starting with the Am pentatonic, I put my index finger on A (6th string, 5th fret) and followed first the rectangle, then the stack all the way to the 1st string - and it works!!! Amazing. Did the same with my ring finger on the same A and followed the first stack (up), then the stack all the way to the 1st string.
Thank you for sharing this mental framework with us - it's life-changing.
Awesome…glad you stuck with it! 🎸🧪🤘
Possibly the best CAGED lesson on YT. Amazing.
Thanks! 🎸🧪🤘
This is gold! For me, this is the best fretboard lesson I have seen on TH-cam by far! 👍👍👍
Thanks so much! 🎸🧪🤘
Yippee!!! Thank you. I am going to be spending some time on this one. I really appreciate all you are doing for the guitar players community.
Thanks, Brian…much appreciated! 🎸🧪🤘
I am 71 years old and your videos break things down in a way that I just love! They have helped me tremendously! I feel like you keep giving me "cheat sheets" for a learning exam! Thank you for your hard work, well done!
Thanks, Rob…I’m glad they’re helping you on your journey! 🎸🧪🤘
Amen brother. I'm right there with you. Just imagine at our age we can actually get up on stage with people rolling their eyes at us and we kick some major butt. It will happen. Knowledge, correct practice, technique and soul is power, no matter out age.
The best applied music theory videos I have ever seen, bar none! The only "complaint" anyone could ever have, is that you manage to pack so much information into 15 minutes, others would probably make 4 videos out of it. Important to make sure you have internalized every aspect before you move on to the next, or valuable information might just get washed away. Thank you so much for your efforts, you're awesome!
It’s my secret plan to sell more PDFs 🤣…in all seriousness, I think the great thing about TH-cam is that you can easily go back and rewatch the parts you missed. I’m a signal processing engineer by training, so maximizing signal-to-noise ratio is my m.o…thanks for your kind words! 🎸🧪🤘
Totally agree. I would also love to see some suggestions on exercises you can practice to internalize all this. But the videos themselves are great, this is eye-opening.
@@WLVBS Thanks! I need to figure out an effective way to present exercises…definitely something to think about
I agree , love the high level instruction but as a beginner to theory i can only handle 5 mins at a time before comprehension is seriously diminished . Breaking these down but keeping them in a logical order would be great and get way more views ! Just a thought .
These videos have been great for me, want to seriously thank you for your effort, time and passion to do this. Connecting the dots would be the biggest understatement of the century of what you have brought to my playing with these concepts.
Thanks so much, Tyrone! 🎸🧪🤘
Refreshing! Finally a unified way of navigating the fretboard. It really makes you learn your scale degrees. Bravo!
Thanks, Jeffrey! 🎸🧪🤘
What a great illuminating video. No meandering talk, no anecdotes, no telling people how much they suck at guitar. You deserve a million subscribers. Great channel. Subbed.
Thanks, Andrew…be sure to tell a million friends! 🤣 🎸🧪🤘
different voicings of same triad 5:14
moving major triads shapes down each string 6:05
3 basic major triad shapes 7:14
adjusting 3rds and 5ths of major triads to make different triads 7:48
Ming-bogglingly good stuff!
What I love about this lesson is the layer concept, building up from roots to chord tones to pentatonics to modes. So helpful to see how all of these come together in a stack.
I'm doing a deep dive on chord tones right now and already know my pentatonic shapes (and how to build them almost instantly with the rectangle and stack). After watching this video, I have a leg up now that I know how to see the chord tones within the pentatonics. Brilliant!
Leaning each of the layers you show in the video may take a bit of time, but so worth it for the freedom I'm already starting to feel moving around the fretboard. Such a musical confidence boost and my playing has taken a very satisfying leap forward.
Thank you for laying out this valuable information! I deeply appreciate the care and thoughtfulness you've put into each of your videos.
Thanks so much, Brett! 🎸🧪🤘
Unbelievable! For most of us who started our guitar playing journeys as beginners in the late 80s and early 90s this information would have been a godsend. Sadly I spent much of my time either noodling, watching REH videos and taking lessons from teachers who really didn't have the fretboard science knowledge themselves. Oh, how I envy young people of today who are about to start their journey into learning the guitar. Thanks you.
Thanks, Simon! 🎸🧪🤘
The number of times this guy has absolutely melted my mind with supernova like moments of realization is astonishing. Every video it’s like the Big Bang in my cranium.
It truly makes my day when I hear that…thanks! 🎸🧪🤘
Finally, a video title that rings true for me! :46 Boom! great overlay/comparison for someone highly sensitive to patterns but couldn't quite tie it all together. Thanks!
Glad it helped! 🎸🧪🤘
Godsent thank you so mucho I’ve never seen a better caged video ever on the internet !!
So glad you found it helpful! 🧪🎸🤘
Thanks! Extremely helpful, encouraging, and enlightening🙏🏿👊🏿💯
Much appreciated, thanks! 🎸🧪🤘
Just realized how fitting your brand name is. You've proven there's a logic / science to music and how it relates to a fretboard!!
Well done professor!
The name is a bit of a double-edged sword. I definitely believe that logic makes learning the fretboard much easier, but then you’ve got to transcend it to make good music!
@@fretscience The art of science..
My head hurts, but I think I'm starting to get it. Shapes and sounds that I used to randomly hunt for are actually parts of predictable and reliable system. Thank you sir!
It may help to watch a couple of the other videos that support this one, specifically the pentatonic scale lesson and the “hidden in plain sight” approach to modes. This playlist is the recommended viewing order, but definitely feel free to skip around: th-cam.com/play/PLMuHlX9RiFi1L1RdC0CzYa1qxZllD5Ujz.html&si=DY3OQ99jeJeRw-NS 🎸🧪🤘
What a great video as it fully explains the entire guitar theory that everyone who loves playing guitar is hungry for. GB you the provider and presenter.
Thanks for your kind words! 🎸🧪🤘
Thanks, this visualization is very helpful. I've been playing for a while but have been relying on tabs, I'm trying to change that.
My pleasure…glad I can help you in some way on your journey! 🎸🧪🤘
This really is the best, most logical way to describe and map the guitar fretboard for creating music with chords and melodies. Seeing your videos is like having my mental process explained after-the-fact . . .
Now I'm going to bug you to finish the job by adding the "interval ear training part" that explains the value of your "rectangle" and "stack" visuals. When I finally became free on the fretboard, it was because I realized that, wherever a finger was resting on a "root note", I could crank out a minor pentatonic by hitting the note two frets below (a minor 7th) or three frets above (a minor third) and continuing in the pentatonic shape I already knew from hard experience. And similarly, I could play a major pentatonic by hitting the note two frets *above* the root (a major 2nd) or three frets *below* (a major 6th) and continuing in a familiar pentatonic pattern. Yes, I had to know what the right pentatonic pattern would be in order to do that. Your video is showing them to anyone who hasn't already learned them.
Better yet, your "rectangle" sounds like the opening riff of "Layla" (5 - b7 - 1 - b3 - 1 - b7 - 1) and your "stack" makes the sound of Jimmy Page's fast middle riff from "Dazed and Confused" (4 - 5 - b7 - 1 - b3 - 4 - b3 - 1). Then my ear and fingers can add in all the color notes I care to do.
Long comment to say a short kudo and a plea for guitar tone examples . . . cheers!
I left that as an exercise for the viewer 🤣 In all seriousness, I will likely do a video about how to learn how intervals sound in different contexts…it is an area that can’t really be taught directly-you have to do a fair amount of work to train yourself to associate interval names with the tonal “colors” you hear. As you can see, I have some work to do before I can explain it clearly.
By far the best CAGED/Triad video out there. Game changer ❤
Thank you for your awesomeness 😀🙏
Glad it was helpful! 🎸🧪🤘
Massive thank you Keith - purchased the 'cheat sheet'. The cheat sheet fully complements the video and is strongly recommended to anyone practising these concepts - massive thank you
Thanks, Nadeem! 🎸🧪🤘
I am 68 and still learning a lot from your lessons.Thanks .
That’s great to hear! 🎸🧪🤘
so far the best guitar youtube channel
Thank you! 🎸🧪🤘
Absolutely ❤
Wow! This is by far the best fretboard lesson I have seen on TH-cam. You unlocked my brain on the fretboard. Thanks a million ❤
That’s awesome to hear…glad it helped! 🎸🧪🤘
Another great video helping connect ideas together. Major kudos on the improvisation hierarchy, what a way to think about it.
Also, my software engineering brain is liking the structure of this series a lot. Thank you, Fret Science!
Thanks, Daniel! 🎸🧪🤘
Probably the most useful guitar theory video I've seen, never subscribed faster in my life
Glad you’re here, cheers! 🎸🧪🤘
Thank you, this has helped identify the ‘missing dots’ that was holding back my understanding!
I have just downloaded your cheat sheets, I know I’ll glean a lot of useful information from them, this video just proved it! 👍
Awesome, I’m glad it helped things come together! 🎸🧪🤘
I am currently practicing minor pentatonic scales and I had already come with the realizing that what really matters is where the root is under your fingers and not the chord type that a box is supposed to fit into. I just found your channel and I think that the way that you look at the fretboard matches very well with the way that I have started to look at it based on my intuition. I subscribed inmediately.
Glad to have you here, José! 🎸🧪🤘
Finally, finally, it was shown to me in a clear, understandable way that was exactly what I was looking for, and it couldn’t be any better, thank you!!!
Great to hear! 🎸🧪🤘
Well that is just a fantastic video........... I have been getting so confused with CAGED, triads and scales and connecting them, but that is the best explanation ever. Many thanx
Glad it was helpful! 🎸🧪🤘
I rarely put comments into these guitar related videos but here I am. I really appreciate these kinds of videos ( btw I watched the entire playlist, these types of videos when you search them they are in the bottom part but for me thanks to TH-cam recommendations that I stumbled across your channel, I do now understand what Paul Davids is saying "everything is connected" and this playlist is really an eye opener. You deserve more subscribers and views man. There are literally other content creators out there who taught fragments of these and ended up selling you their lessons. Cheers🥂.
Thanks for your kind words! I believe all of these basics should be available freely, and it’s been a great experience for me to try to pass on the nuggets of wisdom I struggled to gather.
Please never delete this channel, I will be here learning for the next 50 years. 🙏
I hope you outgrow these videos much sooner than that, but thank you, Matt! Be sure to sign up for the mailing list to stay on top of Fret Science content that’s not on TH-cam 🎸🧪🤘
I really connect with the way you teach and would strongly suggest that if someone is have trouble leaning with other guitar videos, STOP HERE and invest your time wisely and learn with the fret science videos. They are both excellent and unique.
Thank you! 🎸🧪🤘
This is the best guitar educational video I’ve seen in a long time! Thanks you, bless you for this! 😮💯
Thanks so much, John! 🎸🧪🤘
Great video Keith. Like your other presentations I will have to watch it a few times to absorb the details. You have covered a lot of ground in 15 minutes. Thanks for your hard work. Cheers
Thanks, Tim! 🎸🧪🤘
These videos are absolute gold.
Thanks! 🎸🧪🤘
@@fretscience just bought everything
Much appreciated! 🎸🧪🤘
You’re like the 3blue1brown of guitar. You make complex topics easy!
High praise, thank you! 🎸🧪🤘
nicely phrased lol
Wow, my head is exploiting...so many useful information in just one short video clip. I have to rewatch this often times and memorize all the nuggets but I am pretty sure this will help me to gain more confidence while improvising over the fretboard a lot. Keep the work up, it is great! You deserve millions subscribers!
Thanks, Max…glad it’s giving you good stuff to work on! 🎸🧪🤘
By far the best, most succinct and information packed video about CAGED I’ve ever seen. I have a lot of work to do. Thank you for opening up the fretboard to all of us here💙🎶🎸👏🏻
Thanks for your kind words, Gary! 🎸🧪🤘
Thanks!
Thanks, Tim! 🎸🧪🤘
Thank you for the illustrative animations. It's the best I've seen.
My pleasure! 🎸🧪🤘
If you're new to the channel, I'd like to offer a warm welcome!
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Thanks!
Much appreciated! 🎸🧪🤘
Great video and Thank you for showing another way to learn. It's opened a great way to learn and see the fretboard. Amazing videos and teaching methods. Thank you and looking forward to what's next
Much appreciated, Anthony! 🎸🧪🤘
Top notch lesson, I've already learnt a lot from your channel, your explanations are refreshing :) keep up the good work!
Thanks, Tristan! 🎸🧪🤘
A freaking big high five and a big thanks
Thanks, Hossame! 🎸🧪🤘
Excellent presentation, graphic and explanation! Well done! Toward the end I was thinking I needed a color legend on every screen (you do) and then right there at the end you offered a cheat sheet. Thanks~
Thanks! 🎸🧪🤘
🔥Best mnemonics and infographics on the topic I've ever seen! Thank you! 🙏
Once again, thank you for these wonderful lessons. Love the animations. Enjoyed your interview on topmusic guitar podcast!
Awesome, thanks! 🎸🧪🤘
Hi man. I certainly hope you can keep doing educating videos.
I do like your approach and your teaching method.
Keep up the good work!
Much appreciated! 🎸🧪🤘
I subscribed before I even liked, at 1:13 in. This is what I've been hoping for.
Glad to have you here, David! 🎸🧪🤘
Спасибо большое! Вы учитель, посланный нам с небес)
You’re welcome! (and thanks for the kind words) 🎸🧪🤘
Such a cool video. I'm definitely a visual thinker, and this blew my mind. Awesomeness
Thanks, Shaun! 🎸🧪🤘
Really enjoying these videos, particularly the time taken creating the great diagrams. Thanks very much!
Thanks so much, Ben! 🎸🧪🤘
This may be the one of the greatest contributions to all of guitar music theory of all time
Keith Allen invented the CAGED system 50 years ago. It gets a bad rap, but if you really understand how it works, it’s very powerful. 🎸🧪🤘
Wonderful teaching method. Brilliantly presented.
Thanks, Tom...much appreciated! 🎸🧪🤘
My new-year resolution is to absorb all of this. Thank you.
AT LONG LAST I AM NOW ENLIGHTENED, THIS ONE VIDEO HAS JUST MADE MY BRAIN GO CLICK, BETTER THAN HAVING A GURU 4 YEARS & YEARS. THAMKS
I’ve been meditating for years and still haven’t even glimpsed enlightenment, but thanks! 🎸🧪🤘
Well, I'll need to watch that one a couple of dozen more times! :) Great information.
This is what I was looking for, thank you so much
Glad it helped! 🎸🧪🤘
Oh my goodness, if I had learned this forty years ago…. This is so organized and de-mystifying. Its so good that I don’t want to share it, ha ha. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!
Glad it was helpful! 🎸🧪🤘
Thanks for the lesson a new way to look at the shapes will give it a go.
Excellent…let me know how it goes! 🎸🧪🤘
Wow very well explained Thanks!
Thanks, Daniel! 🎸🧪🤘
This is a very valuable lesson. Thank you very much
Glad you liked it! 🎸🧪🤘
This is so dense but so useful. Thanks
I prefer “packed with information” 🤣 I do have a tendency to include *a lot* into every video!
Fret Science for President!
Lol, thanks! 🎸🧪🤘
Holy hell!!!!!!! I've only been playing for 2 months and the CAGED system seemed daunting until this. Thank you sooooo much
I’m so glad the video helped it “click” for you, Michael! 🎸🧪🤘
Man Keith (I assume this is Keith based on my ability to recognize voices...), this video is awesome! My chaotic, creative, artistic, (left-handed) self have been seeking a channel like this for years! Thank you so much for assembling this stuff in a way that makes sense for us oddballs who can't conform. hehe. In all seriousness, you are killing it, bro! Please keep it up!
Thanks for the kind words, Vaughn! (this is, indeed, Keith) 🎸🧪🤘
This is so well done. Thanks for all your effort on this. I’m getting your pdf to study.
Thanks, Kevin! 🎸🧪🤘
Thanks so much for this video and others you do !
I'm a lefty so I have to look at these charts backward....not much fun but doable with patience.
C maj triad chart : 4:29
Glad you found it helpful! 🎸🧪🤘
Thank you 🙏🏻
I get it, though it may take some time to wrap my mind around it fully.
Seems pretty simple, and I may have to unlearn a few things. Old dog, new tricks.
Also appreciate the .pdfs, and I'll be watching this video quite a few more times.
Thanks, Scott! If what you learned before is working, there’s no need to unlearn it. The best possible outcome is to have multiple mental models you can access as best fits the context 🎸🧪🤘
Absolutely awesome lesson! Thanks so much! 🙏🎸
Much appreciated, thanks! 🎸🧪🤘
I watched this video on acid and memeorized this . Just wanna say thank you for unlocking a connection for me
How will we ever know if it was the video or the acid??? Cheers! 🎸🧪🤘
Excellent beyond excellent 🐻🎸🎵🎶
Thanks, George! 🎸🧪🤘
Really helpful comprehensive lesson excellent!!
Thanks, glad it helped! 🎸🧪🤘
Great video! I will come back many times! Thank you! 😊
Glad you’re here! 🎸🧪🤘
thank you for this great lesson.
You're very welcome! 🎸🧪🤘
The way im seeing music as a noob is..... The major scale is like the alphabet. The guitar is my sheet of paper in which to put all the letters of the alphabet into coherent words, sentences, phrases etc ....learning how to spell words is meaningless if you don't understand the whole alphabet. Learning to play a song is fine if thats all your after, but understanding the magic of music and how literally EVERYTHING is connected requires the knowledge of the major scales. CAGED, modes, pentatonics etc all flow on from it..... The light bulb moments im having from this is breathtaking
I’m glad you’re getting some value out of these videos!
Wow thank you sm for this as a piano player learning guitar helps a ton
That’s great to hear! 🎸🧪🤘
These lessons are incredibly powerful! Thank you so much for the amazingly clear explanations.
Do you have any exercise videos or an exercise book I can buy?
Not quite yet, but there’s a book and a more step-by-step exercise-driven video course in the works. You can get on the mailing list at fretscience.com to stay up to date. Thanks for your kind words! 🎸🧪🤘
@@fretscience I will! And I look forward for those. Thank you so much for your incredible work. I will buy all your cheat-sheets.
Much appreciated, thanks! 🎸🧪🤘
Fantastic lesson, that's all I can really say. 👍
Thanks! 🎸🧪🤘
Wow! Thank you 🙏
Glad it helped! 🎸🧪🤘
Thanks...I saw the light!!!! 💥💥💥
Awesome, glad it helped! 🎸🧪🤘
Wow Matey here is full on, but direct to the point. I'm going to unpack all of this slowly, but luckily I do understand most of this, but never had it explained like this before, an amazing resource for all guitar players, Top Job👏👍
Thanks, Carlos…that’s exactly the reaction I was going for! 🤣🎸🧪🤘
This is the best video and I revisit it often
Glad it has been helpful! 🎸🧪🤘
A great video, as always! Many thanks!!!
I also have a question, the 3rd and 5th positions shouldn't be the other way around at min 7:29? diagrams are ok while narrative is misleading
I double-checked the part you mentioned, and I believe it’s correct. When I’m using the word “above”, I mean higher in pitch, not physically higher above the floor when you hold the guitar. So the B string is “above” the G string the way I’m describing it
@@fretscience make sense, thank you!