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This system has been around for a long time, but you don’t see many folks talking about it or explaining the advantages of it. There is a guy by the name of Jonathan Boyd from Guitar Breakthough System. I in no way recommend learning anything from that guy and would warn anyone to stay away from it only because he tries to sell you on this secret checkerboard system that opens up your visualization of the fretboard in a short time period. The catch is he takes forever to get to the point and is selling this information on his website, but the info is freely shown in a free video series by Michael Pillitiere on his YouTube channel. I found out about it about three years ago, but soon after I looked into it briefly, I got side tracked quickly into other things and ended up totally forgetting about it.
That was a mistake on my part, because that information is really incredible if you can understand a few simple rules and learn just three basic shape patterns. It unlocks the major scale all over the fretboard in a very logical way. I’m very impressed with it. I would like to know if anyone else here has run into this yet. I think it is quite awesome.
youtube.com/watch?v=rQf6i8KIwJU
Go slow and practice correct technique, and your abilities will dramatically improve.
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That’s the exact opposite for me, couldn’t be any simpler.
On pattern #1 (1st scale degree), the root note will always be the second (middle) note of the 3rd group of notes.
On pattern #2 (second scale degree), the root note will always be the 1st note of the 3rd group of notes.
On pattern #3 (third scale degree), the root note will be the last note of the second group of notes.
On pattern #4 (4th scale degree), the root note will be the middle note of the second group of notes.
On pattern #5 (5th degree), the root note will be the first note of the second group of notes.
On pattern #6 (6th degree), the root note will be the last note of the first group of notes.
On pattern #7 (7th degree), the root note is always the second note.The intervals are always based off of the root no matter what system you use, have to know where the root is.
I’m finding my fingers doing the dance that Brian always talks about a lot easier to do without error using this because the algorithm has solid logic that is very easy to visualize across strings or horizontally on one string. I wish the pentatonic scale worked the same way, but I don’t see the same logic while thinking in strictly pentatonic only.
If there is a disadvantage, it might be starting from the high strings and descending through patterns are a bit more difficult to get down.
Go slow and practice correct technique, and your abilities will dramatically improve.
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