FROM THE STUDIO OF OUR FOUNDER, TRENT JONES

Dear Fellow Guitarist, 

• Are you tired of noodling every time you pick up the guitar?

• Does it feel like you can’t develop your ideas when trying to be creative? 

• Do you find yourself writing the same riffs/improvising the same solos every time? 

• Is it hard to determine what you should be practicing? Or how to practice it? 

Yea, I felt that way too for a long time… 

In fact it wasn’t until 15+ years into my guitar journey, when I went to university to study it, that I started to be able to express myself freely on the instrument. 

What was the turning point? 

I finally knew my way around the guitar neck. 

I finally had the “words” necessary to craft musical sentences and paragraphs, and articulate exactly what I wanted to say.

It is easily the most important breakthrough I ever made on the guitar. 

Before that, I had played the guitar basically every day. I had developed sound technique, learned every rock and metal song under the sun, and was even playing with other musicians. 

But I struggled to be creative. I had all the technique chops in the world, and nothing to do with them. I was stuck. 

• Stuck playing the same five or six minor pentatonic box licks. 

• Stuck stealing licks from my favorite songs without knowing the “why” behind them, or how to use them. 

• Stuck only feeling comfortable in familiar keys like Am, Dm, or Em, and only able to play in standard tuning. 

I was able to identify not knowing the fretboard as a serious problem. It felt like I was leaving so much meat on the bone by not being able to use the whole neck. But my attempts to learn the fretboard on my own were all futile. 

I watched countless YouTube videos on CAGED, tried memorizing all the note names, learned the intervallic system, and although some of it made sense on paper, I couldn't even begin to apply it. 

After the last 7+ years of teaching, and hundreds of students later, I have realized that the place described above is an overwhelmingly common plateau that guitarists, especially rock and metal guitarists, have trouble escaping. 

This system is a step-by-step roadmap for players of any skill/experience level to learn the fretboard. It’s three different tiers: Standard, Deluxe, and Ultimate all have unique features customized to fit your goals.

This system is rooted in one philosophy: simplicity.