Stop running up and down the same box. Start playing the whole neck.
A free cheat sheet. The handful of scale patterns that cover the whole neck, in any key.
You go to play a little lead, and within a few seconds you’re right back in the same box at the fifth fret. The same five notes, the same shape you’ve leaned on for years. It works, but it always sounds the same. That’s not a missing soloing gene. Nobody ever showed you that the neck is really just a few shapes that repeat, anchored to the root, slid anywhere you want.
Hey, I'm Jonathan. I've taught guitar online since 2009. More than 10,000 students.
What’s on the cheat sheet.
- Why you keep landing back in the same box, and the one shape that finally gets you out of it.
- The handful of patterns that cover the entire neck. You don’t need the other forty.
- How a major scale and its relative minor are secretly the same shape, hiding in plain sight.
- Which scales to learn first, and which you can skip for now without missing a thing.
Free