Exploring the Fretboard No.100: How to create your own exercises for fretboard exploration on classical guitar from my book Exploring the Fretboard: 100 Exercises for Intermediate Guitar. PDF sheet music with notation, left hand fingering, and video lessons. This book offers students a set amount of ordered material and a variety of ways to investigate the fretboard. It has been designed as an exploratory primer before further and more comprehensive study.
Topics and Times
- 0:00 Intro and Discussion
- 1:08 – Say the note names out loud
- 4:46 – Try fragments in different positions or octaves
- 7:30 – Make up similar exercises
- 8:12 – Re-finger a musical passage
- 8:25 – Study some basics of jazz
- 9:45 – Transpose to different keys
- 11:40 – Conclusion
Here is the YouTube link if you want to watch it there.
Sold!! I’m 63 years old and I wish I had this book when I started guitar lessons at age 15. Of course, I didn’t have the hindsight back then. ; )