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The Pentatonic Scale
The first scale every guitarist should learn — five notes, simple repeating shapes, and the foundation for everything else on the fretboard.
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Pentatonic in Two Shapes
Learn the whole pentatonic scale from just two small, repeating shapes — then add two notes to reach the full major scale.
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Connect Chords to Scales
Stop treating chords and scales as separate things. Learn to see the chord shapes hidden inside every scale pattern.
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CAGED Shapes
Turn the five chord shapes you already know into a map of the entire fretboard, and link chords to scales as you play.
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The Circle of Fifths
How the circle reveals the chords in a key, the role each one plays, and the progressions that turn up in song after song.
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Guitar Modes
Modes without the mystery: see each one as your pentatonic scale plus two notes, and hear what gives it its character.
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