One feature that’s been requested is the ability to show more note information on a fretboard – wouldn’t it be great if you could show more than just ONE of note name, interval or fingering?! Well, soon you CAN! Not ONE but TWO! (“Mwa haha! I love to count!” 8) We call this new upcoming […]

Fretboard Diagram With Note Names Here’s a simple example diagram showing you the names of all notes up to the 12 fret. If you don’t know these yet then yes, memorizing it all this can be quite boring but it is really really important. You could use Joe Satriani’s Note Finding Exercise (scroll through to the bottom […]

The Dorian Study Example showed you some fretboards that can be created with Neck Diagrams, focusing on introducing the Dorian mode and making music with it. Here we’ll take it further so you can master the Dorian mode in all 5 positions… Get slick, nail the change One thing to focus on is the chord change. If […]

As an example, let’s say you want to study the Dorian scale. This is the second mode of the major scale – it happens to be the “sweetest” sounding of the minor modes as it contains a major 6th. Dorian? Modes? Schmodes! If you’re not familiar with modes a common way of explaining them is […]