"Rhett is teaching exactly what you need to be a better guitar player!" -Steve B.
Fretboard Fundamentals Ultimate is the course I wish I had when I was learning guitar… a comprehensive practical guitar theory and application course giving you complete control and understanding of the fretboard.
We're going to take you from the basic building blocks of music theory and harmony, how to apply it to the fretboard, all the way to real-world musical examples and how I use all the concepts in the course to play on sessions, record songs—all the things that I wish I would have learned back when I was starting out on guitar.
This course is designed for beginners, intermediates, as well as players that have been playing guitar for years but might have a few holes in their knowledge or are looking to go back and freshen up on a few ideas they may have learned years ago.
It's split up into four sections, starting with the basic building blocks of music theory and harmony. The major scale, triads and pentatonics will all be covered. Most importantly, we focus on how to apply those concepts to the entire fretboard.
So if you've been sort of stuck in the open "cowboy chord" position or with your standard minor pentatonic box shape, Section One is going to immediately break you out of those boxes and get you playing up and down the neck and actually understanding what you're doing.
In Section 2, we go deeper into chord theory, focusing on seventh chords, sus chords, chord extensions, and understanding alternate chord voicings. The focus here is really to get you to understand chord theory and harmony and how it works on the guitar.
By the end of Section Two, you'll be able to play any chord progression you know anywhere on the neck, as well as embellish those chords, change those chords, and come up with new interesting chord voicings that you've never played before, all while actually understand what you're doing.
Then in Section Three, we will be focusing on the major modes, understanding them and understanding how to practically use them. This is the way I wish I would have been taught the modes when I was in music school. I think a lot of guitar players tend to skip over modes because it can be confusing and hard to apply to the fretboard, so we tend to stick to just our minor pentatonic scales and figuring out how to fit that over certain chord progressions.
After this section of the course, you will understand how and when to use the modes. It will instantly open up your guitar playing—you'll be playing better ideas and actually fitting your solos and your lines to the chord progressions that you're playing over.
Section Four focuses on real-world examples of playing. Learning how to solo more melodically, building dynamics in your solos, how to combine rhythm and lead playing inspired by the the greats such as Jimi Hendrix, Curtis Mayfield, and John Mayer.
We will also spend some time working on your tone and how to let your sound become part of what you play.
Included with the course are eight studio backing tracks that you can download and use to play and practice all the concepts you will learn.
Each video lesson comes notated with its own PDF as well as a guitar pro file, so you can actually learn what I'm playing in each lesson and apply it to your own playing at home.
Your complete Roadmap to Gain a Comprehensive Understanding of the Guitar Fretboard.
Studio Backing Tracks
and Learning Resources, including PDFs and Guitar Pro Files.
Practical Step-By-Step Lessons for every level of Guitar Player.
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- Introduction (2:54)
- All Guitar Pro Files
- All PDF Resources
- All Jam Tracks and Chord Charts
- Pat 1 | Music Theory Primer (2:39)
- Part 2 | Major Scale (9:46)
- Part 3 | Major Triads (2:50)
- Part 4 | Minor Triads (3:30)
- Part 5 | CAGED (10:21)
- Part 6 | Major Pentatonics (6:32)
- Part 7 | Minor Pentatonics (8:31)
- Part 8 | Technique and Touch (19:26)
- Part 9 | Rhythm and Strumming (21:35)
- Part 10 | Alternate and Hybrid Picking (10:47)
- Part 11 | Advanced and Diagonal Minor Pentatonics (12:54)
- Part 12 | Advanced Major Pentatonics (6:19)
- Part 13 | Relative Major and Minor Pentatonics (6:53)
- Part 14 | Triad Inversions (9:04)
- Part 15 | Major 7th Chords (5:18)
- Part 16 | Dominant and Minor 7th Chords (5:16)
- Part 17 | Sus Chords (2:40)
- Part 18 | Harmonizing the Major Scale (6:42)
- Part 19 | Common Chord Moves (14:06)
- Part 20 | 9th Chords (6:28)
- Part 21 | 11th Chords (3:52)
- Part 22 | 13th Chords (8:33)
- Part 23 | Alternate Dominant Extensions (6:19)
- Part 24 | Shell Voicings (5:30)
- Part 25 | Spread Triads (2:37)
- Part 26 | Major Modes Explained (21:06)
- Part 27 | Dorian Sound (12:42)
- Part 28 | Mixolydian Sound (9:09)
- Part 29 | Lydian Sound (9:02)
- Part 30 | Aeolian Sound (9:07)
- Part 31 | Playing With Triads (11:39)
- Part 32 | Combining Rhythm and Lead (13:53)
- Part 33 | Playing Melodically and Solo Structure (10:22)
- Part 34 | Playing to Your Tone (10:49)
- Part 35 | Un-Learning Music Theory (8:17)