Finger exercises to build strength, coordination, and clean fretting from the first session.
Major Blues Foundations
Learn all five major-blues positions, resolve the flat 3 into the major 3rd, and use movable power, major-barre, and minor-barre chords in blues-ready major-key forms.
Each stage centers one musical target. Its activities stay grouped together so the course reads as a path through the fretboard, not a list of disconnected drills.
MechanicsScalesChordsProgressionsJams
- Stages
- 5
- Lessons
- 24
- Targets
- 82
Stage path
Major Blues stays tonic-centered while each stage introduces the next of its five standard positions and applies it over diatonic major-key harmony with power and barre chords.
Establish Major Blues Position 1, hear the flat 3 resolve into the major 3rd, and connect the tonic to movable I shapes.
4Tracks4Lessons7Targets
Map Position 1 with ascending, descending, and blue-note turns.
Connect a Position 1 scale tone to practical sixth-string chord shapes.
Jam practice turns scale, arpeggio, and chord work into soloing ideas over a groove.
Add Position 2 around vi, introduce the minor barre, and contrast relative-minor color with the tonic-major blues sound.
5Tracks5Lessons13Targets
Finger exercises to build strength, coordination, and clean fretting from the first session.
Start in Position 2, then connect earlier boxes with steps and blue-note turns.
Connect a Position 2 scale tone to practical sixth-string chord shapes.
Progression practice builds rhythmic chord changes and common song movement through real chord sequences.
Jam practice turns scale, arpeggio, and chord work into soloing ideas over a groove.
Add Position 3 around V, reinforce major-barre control, and use dominant motion to turn blues phrases back toward I.
5Tracks5Lessons17Targets
Finger exercises to build strength, coordination, and clean fretting from the first session.
Start in Position 3, then connect earlier boxes with steps and blue-note turns.
Connect a Position 3 scale tone to practical sixth-string chord shapes.
Progression practice builds rhythmic chord changes and common song movement through real chord sequences.
Jam practice turns scale, arpeggio, and chord work into soloing ideas over a groove.
Add Position 4 and the nearby IV chord, then combine I, IV, and V in short turns and a complete twelve-bar major-blues form.
5Tracks5Lessons21Targets
Finger exercises to build strength, coordination, and clean fretting from the first session.
Start in Position 4, then connect earlier boxes with steps and blue-note turns.
Place the IV root inside Position 4's window as backing harmony.
Progression practice builds rhythmic chord changes and common song movement through real chord sequences.
Jam practice turns scale, arpeggio, and chord work into soloing ideas over a groove.
Add Position 5 around ii, complete the five-box map, and connect blues phrasing to familiar ii–V–I and four-chord turnarounds.
5Tracks5Lessons24Targets
Finger exercises to build strength, coordination, and clean fretting from the first session.
Start in Position 5, then connect earlier boxes with steps and blue-note turns.
Connect a Position 5 scale tone to practical sixth-string chord shapes.
Progression practice builds rhythmic chord changes and common song movement through real chord sequences.
Jam practice turns scale, arpeggio, and chord work into soloing ideas over a groove.