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Fretboard Theory (Course 1)

Name: Fretboard Theory (Course 1)
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Duration2h 13m

Modules18

LevelBeginner

LanguageGerman

This course is taught in German, which is different from your display language (English). Videos, audio and on-screen instructions are in German.

Lesson Plan (2h 13m)

- 01. Course Introduction
  Free lesson
  1:42
- 02. The notes on the E and A strings
  13:19
- 03. Dividing the Fretboard into Five Positions
  8:03
- 04. Position Exercises
  13:32
- 01. Thirds (the building blocks)
  13:06
- 02. Exercises on thirds
  3:58
- 03. Fifths (the 'sound' of rock)
  6:02
- 04. Power chords
  7:47
- 01. The Major Triad
  8:20
- 02. The Minor Triad
  6:07
- 03. Diminished & Augmented Triads
  5:53
- 04. Exercises on triads
  6:00
- 05. The circle of fifths
  6:49
- 06. The circle of fourths
  7:19
- 07. Diatonic Triads
  5:17
- 08. Triads and inversions
  14:11
- 09. Exercises on triads and inversions
  5:25
- 10. Outro
  0:40

About this course

This course brings structure to the fretboard and creates a logical way in.

The starting point is intervals and how they lie on the fretboard. With the interval notation used for the chord diagrams, every shape can easily be transposed into any key. Guitar-specific topics like drop 2 and drop 3 voicings are packaged into plenty of practical exercises. The course is aimed at anyone who, after years of pentatonics, open chords and barre chords, is looking for new sonic images - and also at players who read notation and tab and want to discover fresh perspectives.

Included are lessons on major and minor arpeggios, thirds, fifths, triads and various tonalities and their application on the fretboard. By the end you'll have a deep understanding of fundamental music theory and know how to apply it to your music as a guitarist.

Frank Doll is a graduate of the Music College Regensburg and the Munich Guitar Institute (MGI) and the author of 'Griffbrett-Theorie', published by Schott Music.

Who it's for

Guitarists stuck in pentatonics and open chords
Tab players who want to truly understand the fretboard
Self-taught players wanting to close gaps in the basics of theory

What you'll learn

Confidently find every note across all five positions
Build major, minor and diminished triads anywhere
Apply intervals and inversions in your own playing

What you'll need

A tuned acoustic or electric guitar
Basic knowledge of open chords and fretting technique
A few minutes most days, practiced regularly

Meet the Guru

Frank Doll

Frank Doll, born in 1972, studied at the Music College Regensburg before reading musicology, German and linguistics at the University of Regensburg. Drawn back to the guitar, he went on to train at the Munich Guitar Institute (MGI). He has worked as an instrumental teacher since 1998, alongside countless performances at home and abroad across rock, pop, musical theatre and light music. He currently teaches in the music stream at the Edith-Stein-Realschule in Parsberg and has run the Musikwerkstatt Frauenberg since 2006. On MusicGurus his German-language Griffbrett Theorie courses map the guitar fretboard systematically - intervals, chord shapes, modal positions and applied theory - for players who want to understand the neck, not just memorise shapes.

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Published with

Schott Music

Founded by Bernhard Schott in Mainz in 1770, Schott Music is one of Europe's oldest and largest music publishers, with a catalogue of more than 30,000 titles. Over its 250-year history Schott has issued first editions of Mozart, Beethoven and Wagner, championed 20th-century voices from Hindemith and Schoenberg to Ligeti and Henze, and today publishes sheet music, books and educational materials from offices in Mainz, London, New York, Tokyo and beyond.

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