Guitar practice doesn’t have to be boring. In fact, you make the fastest progress when you are enjoying your practice time.
But memorizing guitar scale “boxes” is extremely boring. A box pattern is ok as a shortcut to get you started. But in the long run, boxes are not effective for fretboard navigation, for three reasons:
- It’s difficult to move around the fretboard, so you tend to stay stuck in the same box.
- Usually, you cannot do anything creative with those boxes.
- How many are you going to memorize? There are so many scale types and so many positions to learn if you want to improvise freely.
Surely there must be a better way 🤔…Thankfully there is 💪😎🎸.
Today I’ll show you a fun and effective way to jump around the fretboard and play the A Minor Scale (also known as the A Aeolian Mode) in many different positions. We will use the String Fragment System™ which is much easier and faster than memorizing boxes.
By the end of this video you will be playing better than before, so I encourage you to invest a few minutes to see how this works:
