You're Probably Visualizing The Fretboard WRONG!

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Video topics: fretboard visualization, note location, guitar lesson, music theory, guitar theory, bernth

[ejorbe]

I started guitar back in 1998, yes a long long time ago (in a galaxy far away), but did not go very far and stopped for the next 19 years. I played on and off for a short while but did not understand what notes I was playing. It wasn’t until 3 years ago that I locked up guitar….and was in the same place. I could somewhat play songs that I learned but was frustrated that I didn’t feel like I knew how to learn, even at times with a teacher. What you said in this video was slightly different and it clicked. I actually cried watching your video because it finally made sense. I learned of your channel when Ola Englund talked about your channel on Sunday with Ola. I checked you out and I think one or two videos in I subscribed. I watched several practice and technique videos, but didn’t know really who to learn the fretboard. Bernth, all I can say is thank you very much and hopefully if we ever run into each other either in Austria, or here around NYC I could at least buy you a coffee! Ok going to pick up my guitar and finally learn it!

[herculesrockefeller]

I think learning theory is valuable - People want to shred like Bernth without knowing what Bernth knows.
How could that possibly work?
Thank you Bernth!

[opusgaudens]

I think this is the lesson that helped me out the most since 15 Years.
Thanks for being an awesome teacher.

[slimcastillo]

Back in college I was playing heavy metal guitar for quite a while, not knowing what the co relation of chords and scales are. Until I decided to learn to play the keyboards and OMG! My life changed immediately, Since then I understood how theory works on guitar! I understood how the CAGED system, and the cycle of fifths works! And apply everything on guitar! It's sill amazes me how Bernth can teach theory under 10 minutes!

[blairr.]

This video is wildly good instructionally for how fast it goes through information, but you can rewind and listen. I feel like these practices are extremely valuable for any instrumentalist. These are the practices and recognition of your instrument that allow you to create, express, and improvise. Its a great video for any learning guitarist so huge props! I hope more people check out your stuff so we can have more shredders in the future.🤘

[Jamsville]

Bernth, your videos are so good. I’m happy to see that you teach the fretboard in what I think is also the best way. Seeing the patterns one string at a time, starting with natural notes is the way to go 👍🏼

[MichaelSorrentino]

Crazy timing. I’m in a music theory online class and I just started connecting the dots on how triads and intervals worked and then you put this video out. Super helpful

[davesdream]

Because I suck at guitar, lately I am focusing on theory. I've been mastering the CAGED system, Mayor scale, minor pentatonic starting on any string any fret, I understand what modes are... but this video opened more windows and allowed me to connect more dots to understand the fretboard. Practicing TRICK#4 the whole weekend and trying the scales on different finger positions!!! BERNTH, you Rock!

[seanmetal]

Thanks for the great content Bernth. I'm taking lessons now but I still refer back to your channel all the time for tips and tricks, and they definitely pay off!

[pluviophilius]

As far as modes are concerned, I recently saw the best way to teach them somewhere on the net.
You have to visualize 3 finger positions: W - (think 1-3-5 on a same string) // U (2-3-5) // V (2-4-5).

No matter the mode, it will always go 3x W + 2x U + 2x V (remember to move one fret forwards when going from the G string to the B string).

Examples:
Ionian W-W-U-U-V-V
Dorian V-W-W-W-U-U
Phrygian U-V-V-W-W-W
Lydian W-U-U-V-V-W
Mixolydian W-W-W-U-U-V
Aeolian V-V-W-W-W-U
Locrian U-U-V-V-W-W

Don't know if that makes sense to you, but when you start visualizing it this way, switching between modes and shapes becomes so much easier.

[lev]

This is pretty nice and helpful indeed for folks, and though I have been a music theory nerd before I even got my guitar, the part with the part about using different arpeggio shapes to string them together was a bit new to me, thanks! (I don't think about shapes though, I just think about where the scale degrees are and intervals)

[johnmcminn]

the real magic is actually the 7th degree of the Major
chord scale 7b5 aka half diminished .
you get the symmetrical diminished patterns which cycle over all the scales in this way you can find blue notes .
if Half whole diminished goes over the 7th degree of the scale . then Diminished Half Whole goes over the Cmajor first degree of the scale.
when you play the whole step Half step symmetrical scale over C major you get 11 notes . you can make both Pentatonic major and pentatonic minor blues from this approach .

[VSpitfire]

I love your theory videos. It makes learning & playing so much easier and the guitar doesn’t feel foreign anymore.

[Luke_Lumberjack_Music]

I love when you talk and teach about guitar-related and general music topics like music theory, recording or song writing / soloing.

Mastering an instrument is so much more than just mindlessly practicing scales and exercises for hours. If you want to dive in deep these are valuable things to engage with to a certain degree. For some more, for others less. To each their own.

I want to thank you for your efforts to convey knowledge on these topics in such an easy approachable way for those of us, who aren't necessarily that much into the theory aspect of their instrument.

[thecentralscrutinizerr]

I was finally able to afford buying a pack of guitar strings and a guitar cable. Now all I need is a guitar and an amp.

[nathanbolen]

Thank you for your channel, i have been playing for almost 20 years but i have learned more in the last six months than i have in a while and can look at the fretboard in whole new way

[ful]

you're an absolute mad lad! best explanation of modes I've ever heard

[andreadigiovanni]

Mate, I've seen tons of videos, but you're something special. Your explanation and your exercizes are magic, you are able to sticking me to the screen and to my guitar after. Awesome.

[startingtofall]

You’re approach to teaching is great. Thank you.

[maskedcreator]

Seriously Bernth, as soon as I can afford it I feel like I owe you a donation at the very least. I was one of those guys for a long time, cause and older cover band guitarist that I looked up to as a kid said that self taught musicians had better feel than classically trained players. Me trusting that held me back for so many years. I've been playing since 2001, and I should have been able to articulate what I was trying to do musically a long time ago, but since I didn't I was basically guessing a lot, and not sounding very good a lot of the time. Now that you made intervals, and the fretboard mastery, make sense to me I am comfortable saying that I am an above average guitar player finally! I can't ever thank you enough! This time last year I almost gave up..I thought I was the problem, and that I just would never get it. Then I discovered your channel, and one of your interval videos made every lesson I've had previously make perfect sense, and music in general has become so much more accessible.