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Fretboard Freedom: The Essentials

These are the essentials, the things you can't afford not to know if you want the fretboard freedom every serious guitar player aspires to. No matter your playing experience, making sure you learn these essentials is critical to your progress in the long run. You will be introduced to concepts that will give you jet fuel to supercharge your progress for years to come. Let me help you jumpstart your journey towards true fretboard freedom.

I hope this course will begin some of your greatest aha-moments - things that you can take with you through the rest of your guitar journey.

Lessons

  • Lesson Description

    • PART 1: Overtone Series and Tuning
  • 1
    Introduction to the Overtone Series and Tuning Module
    Welcome to the Fretboard Freedom: The Essentials course!

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  • 2
    Does Your Ear Play Tricks On You?
    It's not hard to hear when 2 strings are in tune with each other, like the 5th and 6th, 4th and 5th, etc. But when you get to the 3rd and 2nd strings it gets a little tricky.

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  • 3
    Introduction to the Overtone Series
    It's important to understand how the overtone series relates to the notes on your guitar. Especially if you want to later master using harmonics while playing music. But it's just as important when it comes to understanding the differences between the notes of the overtone series and the actual fretted notes on the guitar.

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  • 4
    Is the Overtone Series "Out of Tune?"
    In this lesson you'll see the first "out of tune" harmonic in the overtone series. It's really helpful to know the differences because going forward you can be sure to avoid the trap of tuning "to" some of the overtone series notes.

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  • 5
    Why You Can't Tune to a Chord!
    How to keep the overtone series notes from fooling you! Turns out, the old method of tuning your guitar isn't so "old hat" after all!

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    • PART 2: Mapping Every Natural Note Across the Fretboard
  • 1
    Only Two Things That Determine Pitch
    Think clearly about what changes pitch on any guitar string and apply that going forward. Sometimes it's the simplest stuff that triggers a light bulb moment!

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  • 2
    Only Two Things You Need to Know!
    See how knowing two simple things can expand your ability to picture the notes across the entire fretboard. This lesson boils it down for you.

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  • 3
    A Quick Look at the Octave
    Why is it called an "Octave"? You'll know after this quick lesson!

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  • 4
    Map the Natural Notes Across the Entire Fretboard
    Finally! We've built on a couple of easy to understand principals and now we're ready to quickly map the entire fretboard!

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  • 5
    Learn the Notes Even Faster!
    As you begin to memorize the natural notes on the 6th & 5th strings, this video will give you a couple of tips that makes the process much faster!

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    • PART 3: The Amazing Fretboard Layout
  • 1
    Let's Build a One String Guitar
    In this lesson I introduce you to the inventor of the guitar who started with only one string. As you can imagine he was pretty busy running up and down that one string. . Just kidding, that's not exactly how it happened but we'll pretend it did. .

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  • 1
    Find the Same Note on an Adjacent String
    The simple formula for being able to absolutely jump to the same not on another string. In the next lesson I'll show you how this can be leveraged to spice up your playing!

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  • 2
    Position Playing Primer
    Learn what it means to play in a given position. We'll also add the next three strings and show why they are all tuned to the fifth fret of the preceding string.

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  • 3
    The Second String Mystery!
    So far we've tuned each new string to the 5th fret but now, when adding the next string, we tune it to the fourth fret of the previous string. What the?? What was our inventor thinking?

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  • 5
    The Incredible Talking Guitar?
    The same note played on different strings creates a different tone unique to that string. It's almost like playing the same note on different strings makes the guitar sound like it's forming different syllables.

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