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Our focus is to give people the tools and a community to become successful at playing the guitar, no matter what their experience.
If you’re guitarist and wanna learn your triads try this challenge.
Most guitarists learn theory backwards… and wonder why it never clicks 🎸
You “know” theory, but can’t actually hear it in the songs you love? That’s not your fault.
We were taught theory like a math test: memorize formulas, pass the quiz, forget it. But nobody trained our ears the way our eyes were trained as kids.
You can instantly spot a guitar, a car, even tell the difference between brands—because you’ve seen thousands of examples with context and repetition.
But has anyone ever drilled you with 100 examples of a I-vi progression until you recognized it instantly? Didn’t think so.
That’s why theory feels disconnected. It’s not tied to your hearing.
When you train your ears with the same repetition and context you gave your eyes growing up, everything changes.
Suddenly theory isn’t abstract—it’s alive. You’re hearing, understanding, and finally becoming the guitarist who gets it.
The potential’s already in you. You just need to unlock it the right way.
06/18/2023
https://freteleven.com/blog/b/pentatonic2
A new blog post is out continuing Andrew Gingerich's series on mastering the .
There is something for every player, whether pentatonic scales are new to you or you've been playing them for years.
Mastering Pentatonic Scales - Part 2 In the second installment of the "Mastering Pentatonic Scales" series, this blog post offers a deep dive into the integration of individual pentatonic patterns across the entire fretboard. It emphasizes the importance of deeply ingrained muscle memory, visualization, and connecting patterns akin to....
01/20/2023
Learning guitar is such an exciting journey! When working on new concepts, try connecting them to what you already know. For instance, learning the Amin bar chord is a great starting point, but when you see it as a smaller part of the Natural minor scale, it opens up a whole new world of musical possibilities! As you become more familiar with the Root, flat 3rd and 5th of the minor chord, adding the flat 7th to the min7 chord will feel like a breeze. Instead of feeling overwhelmed by learning multiple chords and scales, try to focus on understanding one and all its elements. Remember, the key to connecting your ear to the shapes on the guitar is to familiarize yourself with the scale degrees. Keep pushing yourself, you got this! And don't forget to share your progress with other guitar players, you never know who needs to hear this.
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