Master The Fretboard in ONE HOUR

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Timestamps for reference (will be adding more as I work through the video).  Figure this might be useful for others too. G Major: 4:00 - First Position 5:48 - Second Position 7:48 - Third Position 8:46 - Fourth Position 12:01 - Transposing Tangent 13:32 - Fifth Position 15:09 - G Major Pentatonic 15:16 - First Position 15:38 - Second Position 16:04 - Third Position 17:49 - Fourth Position 18:18 - Fifth Position 24:10 - G Major Blues Scale 24:41 - First Position 25:45 - Second Position 26:25 - Third Position 27:14 - Fourth Position 27:50 - Fifth Position 29:28 - Moving on to Chords/Arpeggios 29:40 - Diatonic Chords in the Key of G 31:17 - G Major Arpeggio (with comment on barring) 33:20 - A Minor 34:35 - B Minor, C Major, D Major, E Minor, and F# Diminished 35:40 - Major and Minor Arpeggio shapes written out/summarized 39:30 - 7th Chord Arpeggios Intro 41:40 - Maj7 Chord/Arpeggio 42:40 - Dom7 Chord/Arpeggio 45:12 - Min7 Chord/Arpeggio 46:47 - Min7b5 Chord/Arpeggio 49:24 - Soloing Discussion

I've been playing 60 years, and your videos inspire me to keep learning. The Mark Knopfler one was a classic. Thank you Rick from beautiful Finistere (France) ;-)

It’s crazy how things one may already know appears completely something else, if approached in a different way. This is literally enlightening Rick!

Fantastic Rick ! after 43 years of playing and learning the guitar you have tied it all together for me in one video with a simple approach to mastering the fretboard, thank you sir X all the best Ant

As an intermediate (ish) player this has helped me usefully connect a bunch of theory (scales,arpeggios, etc) with their relative placement on the fretboard and practical use. Amazing value from a one hour video. Thank you.

Honestly the best fret board mastery / walk through I’ve seen of this length. Rick has such an amazing way of taking the most complex concepts and merging the theory + position concepts and is more effective in an hour than most are in three hours. This lesson should be table stakes for every player - it would have saved me a tremendous amount of confusion.

Even Rick’s technical difficulties are gold.....freakin gold. Luv the channel.

I’m glad to see an instruction video again, Professor! This info is crucial to aspiring musicians

Rick the major scale to major pentatonic link is so obvious and genius!!! It has unlocked my playing tremdously. Your guitar teacher really knew what he was teaching. Thank you so much!

You cannot imagine Rick how much I appreciate this. You really make it easy! I'm 34 and rediscovered how much I like playing guitar (although I'm not that good). I'm looking forward to get better again, and this really helps:).

Great knowledge as always! Thank you for all of the free content, more than most would give away in their shorter videos. It’s much appreciated

Anytime you put these videos out- I immediately send them to my students and encourage them to buy your Book- you've done so much work for me to help fast track these students all over the world. It is a crash course- it was all 4 years of college for me, and you combined jazz and classical approaches. Invaluable.

Thank you, Rick. Great lesson. There is always so much that one can learn from your videos. I also enjoy revisiting (and discovering) the older videos on your channel.

If you see this Rick, thank you! I took lessons in Binghamton NY around 1986 or so from a TERRIFIC jazz guitarist named Tim Schumacher. He moved to Philadelphia a month or two after I started. Like your first teacher, I learned pretty much everything I needed to know to get me going. I figured all of the stuff you presented tonight on my own, with much exploration and experimentation on my own. I've now been teaching private lessons for almost 14 years. I teach exactly what you teach, almost verbatim. Thank you for affirming that I'm doing "good" by my students. I'm not a college educated guy, just a guy that worked his butt off in the pursuit of excellence. I have more doubts than you can shake the proverbial stick at. This video made a difference for me. A blessing to be sure! Thank you! Lee Campbell

the fact you give these helpful lessons for free is incredible, your videos always make sense of things that in high school band my teacher couldn't quite make so simple and its much appreciated dude.

Amazing hour of lesson! I'm taking it in 10 minute intervals and practising until I get it right.

I have been playing guitar my whole life, I went to M.I. The Denver guitar institute (now gone) The Dallas School of music, I toured for 12 years and I still tour regionally, i have recorded 9 albums 10 singles and 2 videos….I have taught guitar now for over 12 years…..I purchased the entire Beato course because as a musician you can live 3 lifetimes and still be scratching your head trying to take it all in…..Rick is the real deal and so are his courses….it does not matter how long you’ve been playing you must never stop learning about the guitar and music, it’s the only way to separate yourself from all the others that play only by ear….I have opened for Def Leppard, Megadeth, Rob zombie, George Lynch, Prong, Overkill, Symphony X, Metal Church, Loudness (from Japan) HellYeah, Hank 3 and I once played on stage with Dime…..I’m always learning and so should you! Good luck with everyone’s playing

I have the Beato ultimate bundle…4 courses that actually give you the toolbox for playing guitar effectively. I would say its worth every penny folks.Great work.

Rick is so fortunate to get such a good teacher. When i started guitar in 64 good teachers were not easy to come by.