Pattern-based lessons for guitar players — learn the fretboard, scales, and the circle of fifths the way Fretkit teaches them. New here? Start with the fretboard.
The W W H W W W H formula in frets, C major in open position and a movable G major pattern you can slide to any key.
Skip the flashcards. Use octave shapes, natural-note anchors, and the circle of fifths to make every position on the neck predictable — with a 10-minute daily routine.
Find every chord in any key at a glance, work out what key a song is in, and transpose in seconds — the circle explained with fretboard shapes, not piano diagrams.
I–IV–V, I–V–vi–IV, ii–V–I and the 12-bar blues, read off the circle and written out in five guitar keys.
The six string notes, the 5th-fret method for tuning by ear, and a step-by-step routine with a tuner.
How to tune to DADGBE by ear or with a tuner, why one-finger power chords change riffing, and which chord shapes change — plus five things to play in your first session.
Exact frets for every A minor pentatonic box, the blue note, why minor and major share the same shapes, and how to stop living in one position.
Match a scale to any key or chord, learn the pentatonic box and the major and minor patterns, and see where each one sits on the fretboard.
The five notes, all five box positions with exact frets, how to link them up the neck, and a 5-minute routine to make the shapes stick.
Go three frets down to find the relative minor of any key, see all twelve pairs, and solo over a C major song with A minor pentatonic.
The five notes, all five box positions with exact frets, the relative-minor rule (E minor is G major), and an E major pentatonic example.
Minor pentatonic, major pentatonic, major and natural minor, with exact frets and a simple order to learn them in.
How the five open chord shapes connect up the fretboard, with exact frets in C and G and a simple way to learn them.
Minor pentatonic plus one blue note: the six notes of the A blues scale, exact Box 1 frets, and how to play it over a 12-bar blues.
The 12 bar blues bar by bar, with the I-IV-V chords in A, E, G and C, open 7th shapes, the quick change and the turnaround.