👉 You'll find an excellent resource; designed well even for professional players, and diametric approaches.

Our method may certainly seem to be focused on something about "shapes": our books contain dozens of large clear charts. But we’re going to break them all down, and discover orientations in them. The music is the target; and, we might ask: if you consider that a goal can be to become familiar with the notes on the fretboard “like seeing the numbers on the diagrams”; then we’d answer by saying that you can get there with our method.

The primary goal of our method is not simply shapes; and is about those musical orientations all over them. If you’re playing in one given position, then you should be able to improvise and have the needed confidence in the scale tones and/or chord tones; as well as various transitions, and movements. You’ll also be playing in many positions; and in many keys and chords; and again want the orientation.

So we’re not simply going to leave you with the shapes, as if to say “there is the scale, and so it should seem obvious now”. Our method will provide you with the concise toolkit to assemble your own orientations.

The diagrams are simple neck diagrams, like the one to the left. The frets are laid out horizontally, and strings are laid out vertically. On a right-handed diagram, the Low E string is on the left; as if holding the neck up in front of you. The strings are reversed for a left-handed diagram; and the book is available in both left and right-handed * versions (and, most books are also available for bass guitar). The markers represent all the notes available for your fretting fingers.

In addition to the (easy to grasp) "blank" diagrams, our books include complete sets of diagrams that show the scale degrees on the markers (a Trademark); and they are designed to help you to isolate and see intervals, notes; and any shapes or string groups, anywhere on the neck — in addition to learning the scale and chords.

Notice also that our diagrams include a "duplicate scale tone"; on the B and G strings. It's included because our diagrams are designed to show you the complete scale at each position; and they include all of the available notes, including available chord tones. (Actually fingering the scale in position is only one thing; and there is a preferred fingering for each duplicate tone. But for one, the chords are also in the diagrams; and still, the choices do remain free!) The diagrams are not just rote scale fingerings: they are designed to be more complete tools in a toolbox.