I remember 7 or 8 years ago this being one of the most important exercises that let me start to see and hear connections between changes, in real time. In fact when in clicks into place, efficiently moving chord tones through a progression makes even scary charts approachable at sight - and no large patterns or muscle memory required! It’s hard work but pays off massively and long term, lets you easily analyse vocab and build freedom with your playing. Let me know if you have any questions or ideas for future videos!

Hi David! I cannot NOT enjoy a lesson of fretboard knowledge specially if its intervalic approach. Been playing for 15 years and I'm still learning so much. I been learning interval visualization here and there for a while now since I first watch a video of Tom couple years ago. Certainly I need more work so it becomes "muscle memory" rather than active thinking but it's really a great approach at knowing the fretboard. One thing that I don't hear much about and I think it needs more emphasis with this approach is the fact that you NEED your root notes, so you need to learn the fretboard notes as first step. Anyway, this lessons was really helpful and its exactly the step I am working on right know when it comes to changes. I would love a part 2 where you take this idea a bit further and talk about phrasing and what you do after identifying the chord tones, how to create phrases between the chords targeting these notes. I am a bit lost there because this intervalic approach really helps me find the chord tones, but when it comes to create phrases or licks or make a melody for a chord, I feel like I need it to combine it with some common scale shapes or else I'd be thinking on too many things and intervals while playing. So yeah, not sure yet how to move forward. I follow you on Instagram and I always enjoy your licks and wonder how you come with such ideas, are you thinkning on intervals, shapes, scales, CAGED, 3np, etc? that would be a nice part 2 for this. Cheers man!

I remember playing over 'Joy Spring' at a jam. I'd never herd it before, but there were 2 horn players and a keyboard, 'regulars' reading charts, with me as guest, so with the head and 3 solos ahead of me, I'd heard it 4 times. I'd recognised the form and played ok, so I thought I have that sorted. A couple of weeks later when it was called, I wasn't phased, but messed up the descending part, ditto weeks later so I decided to have a closer look. I tracked down as many recorded versions as I could, and although on the descending bit, the changes were being 'made', none of it was very interesting, so my tip if you do get a good line (or lines) working with that descending Joy Spring bit, transcribe it (or them)! YMMV.

Terrific lesson!!

Very helpful, thanks.

This is excellent. Thanks.

I purchased your course a couple of weeks ago and enjoy it a lot! It is still a work out, there is just no way around it, but I do fing the 2 point very helpful !! Can I still get the 50% discount :) ?

Do you still think in intervals in real time when playing through the changes? (Eg "im targeting the 3rd, this becomes the b7, I'll then hit the 5th of the next chord etc" or do you now just hear melodic ideas in your head when soloing and they come out naturally? If the latter, then when did this transition happen for you? Maybe it's not as simple as moving from one process to the other and the two things are intertwined? Hope that makes sense. Cheers!

Great lesson. I also found vocalizing what I'm playing very crucial, be it intervalic function or note name (yes we guitarists have it painful to learn note names) - it is one of principles of efficient learning, repeating what you just learnt. As for the lesson, I was playing with my guitar on 1st example You chose Eb which is 3 of Cm7. Then Eb from 5 became flat 7 of F7 chord. Then we have Bbmaj7 and Eb which is 4 does not fit there, so we shift down 1 step to D which becomes M3. Then we have Ebmaj7 and D is 7 there. For Ao7 D is not part of the chord so we shift right 1 fret to Eb again which is flat5. For D7b9 Eb is there being flat9, but you dropped to 1 which id D. And lastly for G chord D was 5. Then you repeated with 5 instead of 3. What was the aim of this lesson? To play on 1 string through chord changes or to get better on visualizing notes as intervalic functions with regards to chord being played? At 10:31 you are playing Eb which is part of chord D7b9, but you dropped to D - was there a particular reason, why you wanted to stick to 1 3 5 7?

I was wondering if you guys are ever going to release solo as VST plugin or a desktop application perhaps? it would be really convenient to have the app in my DAW while I'm practicing with some software FX on. I guess another benefit would be that I could have a metronome running in the back while I practice over some of the material in the app itself.

Hi David, As someone whose been trying to play guitar for many years and tried countless systems without much real progress, is it possible to try the new course for a few days to see if it's a good fit? And if it's not a good fit to receive a refund? Thanks for considering this.

By the time they release the Android-only update

Hi, what gauge are you using? The sound sounds really full. Cheers, hopefully an Android update will come in a future.

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