Improvisation & Fretboard Foundation Skills

Maybe some of the of the folks here getting started playing can use this. Someone said I should post more, but I want to have something to offer. This shows how you can create something from improvising on simple songs you'd probably never do on a straight up guitar. Also good tutorial for building foundation skills on the fretboard. Hope you can use it!

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Comment by Rough Cut Guitars on March 9, 2019 at 9:15am

Oh yeah, and helps using heavy strings - that one starts out at 14.

Comment by Rough Cut Guitars on March 9, 2019 at 9:12am

Thanks as always for the kind comments. Yeah, that's one of a bunch of boxes I snagged in Vegas a few years back. Thought itvwould be fun to do a casino gaming theme. Haven't tried to hard to sell those - kind of got attached :-) But I realized how handy those craps table fret numbers are for lessons! BTW, that's the same git in the title music - I'm really surprised how deep and throaty it is for all maple and a smallish box. But again I top brace all my builds - that parallel cuz of the pup. Gives a lot of body and projection even without sound holes.

Comment by A.D.EKER on March 8, 2019 at 10:45am

im whit UJ ! those numbers on the the fretboard ar catchy!

Comment by Uncle John on March 8, 2019 at 3:44am

I like those fret markers.   That is some pretty music and good instruction.

Comment by Dave Lynas on March 8, 2019 at 12:40am

Great tutorial. I’ll be watching again. Nice riffs!

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