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Unlocking the Fretboard - Part 1, The key vertical exercises

Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style

Tutorial: Unlocking the Fretboard

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Lesson Excerpt: So how do we get from A to B? How do we go from strict ”box” thinking, to literary thinking “outside the box”? Well as the great Miles Davis said “First learn the rules, the break them”. What does this mean then? Well, first we need to learn the boxes you’ve seen in the introduction by heart, and what the notes of them are, just as a writer can’t begin writing his Nobel prize novel if he has not f...
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