I took a masterclass with Billy Strings' teacher. Here's his killer scale exercise.

🎸 FREE eBook — "Break Out of the Box": escape the one pentatonic shape you keep landing in and start seeing the whole neck as one connected system. Yours free 👉 https://fretscience.com/start?utm_sou... In August, I drove to Andy Wood's Woodshed Guitar Experience in Crossville, Tennessee, and sat in on a fretboard geometry master class taught by Robb Cappelletto, who has been Billy Strings' teacher for the last few years. Robb showed us a scale exercise that covers the whole neck with six shapes. It's simple to describe, a little challenging to play, and I'd happily assign it to my own students. The first half of this video teaches it the way Robb laid it out. The second half looks at what it leaves out and shows a more general way to build the same shapes from a few building blocks, in any key and in the modes. 📄 Mentioned in this video: ▶ Guitar Scales Made Easy, my first twelve videos as a free mini-course:    • Guitar scales made easy (Recommended Viewi...   ▶ Watch all twelve ad-free, with a printable PDF cheat sheet for each: https://fretscience.com/bundles/pdf-b... ▶ Complete Scale Fluency, the full step-by-step course: https://fretscience.com/courses/csf?u... ▶ PDF version of this lesson (Patreon Silver and up): https://fretscience.com/lessons/robb-... 🙏 Thanks to Robb Cappelletto for the exercise that started all this. The exercise is his, and this take on it is mine. Robb teaches at York University and mentors through the Sonora Guitar Intensive: https://robbcappelletto.com ⏱ CHAPTERS 00:00 - Introduction and demonstration 01:23 - Robb Cappelletto's six-position scale exercise 05:07 - Memorizing scale patterns isn't the answer 07:22 - A better approach than memorization 07:54 - Step 1: Understand the warp 08:26 - Step 2: In-position building blocks 09:59 - Step 3: 3NPS building blocks 10:49 - Step 4: Putting it all together 14:34 - Extending this to the modes 16:20 - How to learn this systematically ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT FRET SCIENCE Fret Science is a brain-friendly method for understanding the fretboard — scales, arpeggios, and chords — with dramatically less memorization, so you can improvise freely over chord changes in any style. The core method is free, right here on YouTube. ▶ Go deeper: both full courses (Improv 101 and Complete Scale Fluency), every interactive practice tool, and a growing lesson library are included with a Patreon membership — and the first week of Gold is free:   / fretscience   ▶ Prefer to own a course outright: https://fretscience.com/courses ▶ Free practice tools: https://fretscience.com/tools ▶ Newsletter, blog & contact: https://fretscience.com 📺 NEW HERE? Watch the free method, in order: Full playlist:    • Guitar scales made easy (Recommended Viewi...   1. The Big Picture — how it all connects:    • A new, faster way to unlock the fretboard ...   2. Reduce memorization with "the warp":    • HOW TO VISUALIZE CHORDS & SCALES: A simple...   3. Master the pentatonic (rectangle & stack):    • Two Simple Shapes UNLOCK the Pentatonic Sc...   4. Learn the notes:    • Memorize the fretboard: 3 reasons why, 3 m...   5. Intervals — guitar's secret decoder ring:    • Intervals: guitar's secret decoder ring   6. Understand the modes:    • Demystifying the modes on guitar: it doesn...   7. The best way to play the modes:    • This hack makes learning the modes on guit...   8. Another easy way to play the modes:    • Stop Memorizing Modes, Learn the Pattern I...   9. The CAGED system and triads:    • Demystifying Triads and CAGED: Unlock the ...   10. The 3-notes-per-string system:    • Unlock the fretboard with three notes per ...   11. Instant harmony (double-stops):    • Easy Double-Stop Harmonies: From The Beatl...   🎛 Gear I recommend (affiliate): https://sweetwater.sjv.io/nXmY4V 📷 Billy Strings photo in the thumbnail: "BillyStringsWWG.jpg" by Mr.schultz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... #guitar #billystrings #guitarscales #fretboard #guitarlesson