New: Fretly is live: the interactive fretboard this site was always building towards
Notes from a full-time guitar teacher

Understand the fretboard, so the music can come through.

In the years before the conservatory, I knew no one who could show me how to really become good on the guitar. This is the help I wish I'd had then: clear, in-depth writing on foundations, theory and improvisation, free to read.

An electric guitar resting on a stool below a window, its case on the sill behind © JKey Photography
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01 Foundations Notes, intervals and the geometry of the neck, the things every other skill is built on. 2 articles 02 Theory you can play Scales and chords explained so you can use them, not just name them. 3 articles 03 Improvisation Turn knowledge of the fretboard into music: phrasing, targeting, and sound. 2 articles
The interactive companion

The interactive version lives in Fretly

Fretboard Knowledge gives you the ideas. Fretly puts them on an interactive fretboard: every scale, chord and voicing, in any key and tuning.

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