Image mods and other tasks are ongoing. New content will be added as soon as everything is updated.

Thanks for your patience while we improve the site!

The Guitar Matrix™ Team.

When I was learning classical guitar as a young lad my teacher would occasionally smile at me devilishly and say “today we’re going to learn some THEORY! I guess I was supposed to be dumbstruck with awe at the prospect of being ushered into the lofty realm of Musical Wisdom, unfortunately the effect was rather more anesthetizing. THEORY felt like something that was distantly related to guitar playing at best. The presentation focused mainly on wrote memorization of painfully boring historical minutiae and arcane musical terms. In a word, brutal.

Some time later I had the privilege to attend GIT in Hollywood. The school had recently opened and it took a truly unique approach to guitar learning . Beyond the fact that the teachers and players I met there were (are) truly amazing, they built a musical framework that connected all of the musical dots for me. For the first time in my musical life I “got it”. Music theory wasn’t hard at all and I discovered that it was an integral part of playing, not some bizarre after-thought concocted by short people with big glasses in musty office somewhere.

If you’d like to learn more about guitar theoary the Easy Way. Stick around. We’ve got some things in the works that will really be helpful as you work to sort it all out.

The Guitar Matrix™ Team.

The image resizing is coming along slowly but surely. The major and minor triad images are now light-boxed and ready for prime time.

We’d love to hear your comments about the new layout.

The Guitar Matrix™ Team.

Scale Geometry 2 covers the 5 uber shapes of the pentatonic scale.

What are pentatonic scales you ask? Well without them you could pretty much delete the blues, rock and jazz sections of your local record store (they do still have record stores… don’t they?).

Learn these and you can motor through all of the pentatonic modes in every key. Yes. Really!

Check out Scale Geometry 2/ Pentatonic Shape 1 for the goods. Pattern one is live and the rest are on the way.

Happy picking!

The Guitar Matrix™ team.

I had to laugh today when I stumbled on a website claiming that you could play like a pro in an hour – for a price of course.

Man, I wish they had that when I was putting in 8 to 10 hour days in music school. Who knew it was that easy? Maybe the same outfit has a One Hour Diet plan? Or maybe One Hour Brain Surgery lessons? What about One Hour Cantonese? OK, I think I’ve beat that one to death.

If you want to learn guitar in an hour then the Guitar Matrix™ is definitely NOT for you! On the other hand if you’re ready to take your playing to the next level and your willing to put in a reasonable amount of solid effort I know you’ll find some really serious and valuable information here, guaranteed!

The price is right too. For the foreseeable future we will be ad and donation supported. We’ll have some goodies for download in the near future as well, stay tuned…

We look forward to hearing from you and using your feedback to make the Guitar Matrix™ a better place to hang out and learn guitar. If there’s something you’re dying to see on the site let us know!

Happy picking

The Guitar Matrix™ team

The latest addition to the site is a Fretboard Geometry section called Octave Geometry.

This section outlines an easily mastered visualization/ memorization technique that you can use to locate a given note anywhere on the fretboard quickly and easily. It’s an important lesson becuase it serves as a basis for the upcoming diatonic scale pattern lessons.

As usual, please feel free to comment on content, wishes, typos etc.

Happy picking!

The Guitar Matrix™ team

The first module of Fretboard Geometry is alive and well!

FG Module One deals with the absolute basics. This is the stuff that must be mastered before delving deeper into the timeless magic of Fretboard Geometry.

Each section has vivid fretboard, keyboard and standard notation diagrams that can help you really plug in to where the strings vibrate in the musical universe.

I’ve even noted the frequency range for the audio tweak heads among you (you know who you are…) and supplied references to orchestral instruments in a similar range.

There are also self-test questions courtesy of Reality Check and some exercises in The Wood Shed.

Note: Shouldn’t be too long before the Reality check quizes are up. It is a long weekend after all. And it’s not as if we have lives or anything…

Happy picking!

The Guitar Matrix™ team

We’re almost ready to launch the Reality Check engine for the site! Reality Check is a Flash based multiple choice quiz that gives you a chance to test your understanding of a module unit. Each module will finish with a summary, a Reality Check and a set of suggested exercises to apply the material. We hope to have it live by the end of the week for the first module units.

Happy picking!

The Guitar Matrix™ team