The E-System and Guitar Syntax are like powerful lens that allows you to see the fretboard in a new way. It gives you the tools to move beyond memorization and explore the fretboard with greater freedom and creativity.
|t starts with Major Scale. But we use numeric values of intervals to see and use it.
To clarify, we are seeing the guitar fretboard like we would look at it when holding and paying the guitar, watching out left hand. So the bass E string we see as the first.
Half step – whole step intervals
You can see on the image, half step is just the next fret, whole step is when we skip a fret.
Major scale
In major scale, we have 2 half step intervals, using numeric values, there are between number 3 and 4, and between number 7 and 1.
This is screencast tutorial teaching to put major scale across all the strings.
Guitar Syntax – the fretboard’s DNA overview
In this video you will basically see the pillars of the system. That is the path leading to freedom over the neck. Most people smash this with the thought, yeah, I am beyond that, its too basic. It is, and it is not. Great ideas are simple. Most people knowing the 5 basic chord does not use them to their full potential. Unlocking the fretboard requires you to go back to basics, and see it with a different lens.