The threenotesperstring system is an essential tool for moving freely around the fretboard. This video explains it clearly and reveals how to learn it with 85% less memorization than the usual method. Navigate both vertically and horizontally with confidence, and always know where you are in the scale you're playing.

The content in this video was inspired in part by Jon Finn's book "Advanced Modern Rock Guitar Improvisation." It has been pointed out that the animations and content of this video are (unintentionally) very similar to those in Michael Pillitiere's Building the Better Guitar Scale method    • All 84 diatonic modes in a single pat...   which you might want to check out!

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► Recommended video viewing order:
Full playlist:    • Guitar scales made easy (Recommended ...  

Individual videos:
1. Use "the warp" to reduce memorization:    • HOW TO VISUALIZE CHORDS & SCALES: A s...  
2. Master the pentatonic scale with the rectangle and stack:    • Two Simple Shapes UNLOCK the Pentaton...  
3. Learn the notes!:    • Memorize the fretboard: 3 reasons why...  
4. Intervals: Guitar's secret decoder ring:    • Intervals: guitar's secret decoder ring  
5. Understand the modes:    • Demystifying the modes on guitar: it ...  
6. The best way to learn/play the modes:    • This hack makes learning the modes on...  
7. Another easy way to play the modes:    • Learn ALL the Modes on Guitar in Just...  
8. The CAGED system and triads:    • Demystifying Triads and CAGED: Unlock...  
9. The 3nps system:    • Unlock the fretboard with three notes...  
10. Instant harmony:    • Easy DoubleStop Harmonies: From The ...  

► Keywords: guitar lesson, music theory, 3nps, three notes per string, pentatonic scales, the modes, Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, Locrian

► Chapters:
01:50 Where 3nps comes from
04:57 Building scales on the fly
07:16 Four shifts to remember
08:12 Horizontal movement
09:38 What to memorize
12:14 Integrating pentatonics
15:39 What to practice

► Thank you to Dave DiCenso (drums), Jeff Gilman (bass), and Jake Shapiro (guitar, cello) for providing the theme music "Sea Horses".