Course Content
week 1
Major scales. How to build a major scale on one string starting from ANY note. How to use the C major scale to find EVERY natural note on your guitar. How to find the key signature for every key.
week 2
Identifying notes and their function(s) within a scale. Naming and recognizing the intervals between notes. Using scale patterns to transpose a simple melody into any key.
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C major Scale
00:56
week 3
Using the major scale pattern to build position scales starting on any string, in any position. Naming and recognizing intervals within position scales. Transposing simple melodies using position scales.
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Danny Boy
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week 4
Inverted intervals. Harmonizing the major scale. Discuss course assignments
week 5
Chords; Exploring the 4 basic triads, the intervals within each triad and their respective positions in the major scale.
week 6
Harmonizing simple melodies with triads.
week 7
Minor scales and their altered forms on one string and in positions. Transposing simple melodies in minor keys.
week 8
Harmonizing minor scales using 3rds, 6ths and triads.
week 9
Review all material, present course assignments.
week 10
Introduction to modes.
Fretboard Harmony | Fall 2024 | W6:30
About Lesson

Learn “Danny Boy”. Start with the first eight bar (the first “A-section”). We will start working on it together during the fourth lesson. If you have not have time to start the piece before the fourth lesson, that is no problem. We will start from the beginning of the tune during the lesson and slowly build towards it becoming a whole piece.

Exercise Files
Danny Boy Triads for Fretboard Harmony.pdf
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