Teach a mandolin fretboard mapping method by comparing it to piano, covering tuning, frets, chromatic movement, and interval relationships to unlock the neck.
Concept
Intervals
26 hand-picked videos, articles and diagrams for guitar and mandolin, each with a short summary so you can choose where to start.
Demonstrate movable triad shapes and inversions in G to quickly find strong chord tones across the neck and make musical, usable parts.
Discuss how major and minor pentatonic shapes map identically on guitar, linking modes, intervals, and fretboard visualization, with tips for moving beyond CAGED boxes.
Demonstrate and unpack 36 mandolin scale exercises across open and closed positions with subdivisions to build speed, cleanliness, strength, and fretboard familiarity.
Explains and demonstrates the circle of fifths with quick memorization tips and practical uses for key signatures, chords, and modulation.
Teach how to improvise freely on guitar by deriving the minor pentatonic from the major scale, focusing on intervals, ear training, and practical fretboard visualization.
Demonstrates mandolin double-stop exercises to develop fingerings, intonation, and harmonic awareness across pairs of strings.
Teach a mandolin hammer-on exercise in D major using sixths to develop legato articulation and expressive melodic playing, with sequencing and practice tips.
Shows beginners how to use two-string dyads and power-chord shapes to imply chords, covering basic intervals and simple accompaniment ideas.
Share interval-focused guitar chord charts and theory cheat sheets, plus links to chord-finder tools, for printable practice and fretboard study.
Provide a free searchable scale database with guitar/piano fingerings, notes, intervals, diatonic chords, and audio examples to aid learning.
Present a grid-based note layout to visualize whole steps, fifths, and major/minor scale shapes with enharmonic spellings and alternate semitone-shifted grids.
Share free online music theory flashcards for solfege, intervals, key signatures, and note reading, with scoring, error review, and teacher certificates.
Explores practicing scales through the circle of fifths across modes and asks for additional effective exercises and strategies for learning scales and intervals.
Shares a 36-page guitar-focused music theory reference pack, including diagrams like an expanded Circle of Fifths, for players to print and study.
Seeks community recommendations on essential music-theory and reading topics a sidelined guitarist should study with their teacher.
Share a progressive path from intervals to drop-2 chord voicings and the circle of fifths, with exercises and learning strategies based on memory/comprehensible input.
Present a video defending the minor ninth interval beyond dominant chords, with timecoded classical, jazz, and pop examples illustrating its expressive harmonic use.
Teach beginners major arpeggio theory, interval stacking, and practical fretboard shapes to start chord‑tone soloing on lead guitar.
Shows a visual representation of intervals on the fretboard for educational purposes.
Discuss Holdsworth’s idea that Dorian is the most fundamental scale due to interval symmetry, with links to visualizations and further resources for guitarists.
Demonstrates how to use double-stops within CAGED chord shapes to highlight intervals and create harmonies across adjacent strings.
Explain the A minor pentatonic via intervals and its relationship to C major/major pentatonic to improve fretboard visualization.
Seeks feedback on a fretboard method for playing major scales and modes anywhere, plus guidance on interval shapes, position shifts, and potential pitfalls.
Explain how the physics of sound underpins consonance and dissonance, showing how intervals, scales, and chords arise and why context changes perceived tension.
Demonstrates a guitar fretboard exercise that combines octave shapes with the major scale to improve navigation, note targeting, and visualization.
