Fret Science
The Practice Planner: what to practice today, and how it's going
New video: Billy Strings' teacher's killer scale exercise
Behind the scenes on the Robb Cappelletto video
The Complete Scale Fluency Course Guide is in print
I took a master class with Billy Strings' teacher. Here's his killer scale exercise.
The Timing Game: a score for your sense of time
What's new on the site, October 2026
Complete Scale Fluency is finished
Measuring the Vibrato of Nine Guitar Heroes
Eight Nights, 2,300 Miles, and a Very Loud Guitar Camp in Tennessee
Three robust shortcuts that can save you years
Three robust shortcuts that can save you years
Every scale, everywhere, all at once
How to improvise over chord changes by finding only one note by name
Every scale, everywhere, all at once
How to improvise over chord changes by finding only one note by name
Pentatonic gear shifts
Pentatonic gear shifts
Fret Science: Improv 101
Fret Science: Improv 101
Patreon lessons index
An invitation to join me on Patreon
Cowboy chord superpowers
The Big Picture
An invitation to join me on Patreon
Cowboy chord superpowers
The Big Picture
The Dickey Betts hexatonic scale
The Dickey Betts hexatonic scale
How to memorize the fretboard
Instant harmony: just add thirds
Intervals: guitar's "secret decoder ring"
3nps: an essential tool for all guitarists
The modes explained clearly
The modes are hidden in plain sight -- expanded
The CAGED System (and Triads) Simplified
The rectangle and the stack: the video
Master the modes tonight
Learn the best way to visualize chords and scales and move them across the fretboard
Learn the modes in minutes!
Cognitive science for guitar nerds, part 1: the magical number 7 +/- 2
More yummy harmonies: spread thirds
MmmMMmm: easy delicious harmonies with 3rds and 6ths in all seven diatonic modes
Learn the blues scale across the fretboard in under a minute
The rectangle and the stack: reimagining the pentatonic scale
A hierarchy of notes
Break into the box
Hiding in plain sight
Learn to go from 3nps to “in-position” scales in 1 minute
3nps: One pattern to rule them all
Triad geometry
If you only understand something one way…
The geometry of standard tuning