Fretboard Harmony: Breaking Out of The 'Box'

Ben Sher·
4.0 (1 review)
·INTERMEDIATE·Technique·1 lesson
Professor Sher presents his concept called Fretboard Harmony: a study of the intervallic relationships on the guitar neck and how thy can enable you to see and move effortlessly around the neck. Through this concept you’ll be able to move beyond horizontal fingering patterns and travel vertically from bottom of the neck to the top.
In this first lesson Professor Sher introduces the basic concept, and then shows how to apply the concept to some fundamental skills including arpeggios, blues and  major scales. He the continues with some melodic examples of how to create lines that travel through different registers.
There’s ideas for
  • blues,
  • jazz-blues and
  • flowing  be-bop lines in the style of Pat Martino.
It’s an eye-opening lesson for whatever level or style you are at! 

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  • Fretboard Harmony with Ben Sher - Full Class + Download1685

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Louis Bravo
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9/14/2019

"Great way to break out of position playing."

Good class on fretboard navigation! Thank you for using a guitar with fret markers. One friendly tip to vastly improve the usefulness of your video lesson (without buying any new equipment): Reposition your camera to get close-up shots of your fretboard. This is especially important when you don’t supply a companion PDF of your lesson. As a paying student, all I need to see is the fretboard, your hands, and hear your voice. You can still do an intro video with wide portrait framing but after that its all about that fretboard. I hope you can do this on your next one. Lastly, please give us at least one VERY slow demo of each exercise. This was especially crucial in the second half of the lesson when you started demoing scales. Playing a scale exercise at full speed in an instructional video is not helpful. The half-speed feature for playback can only go so far and it doesn’t remove motion blur.

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About the instructor

Ben Sher
Mike’s Master Classes is proud to welcome Ben Sher to our roster. Ben is a veteran New York jazz guitarist, one of the most stylistically diverse musicians around. “Fluent in the classic jazz guitar tradition of Wes Montgomery and Pat Martino, Ben also draws from the great Brazilian guitar tradition” and is known for Brazilian Jazz Recordings on BGI Records; TudoBem, Please Take me to Brasil, and Tempestarde”. But Ben also plays in numerous other jazz styles, from gypsy jazz, to jazz fusion. He has recorded and toured in a wide variety of musical situations: from performing with cabaret star Ute Lemper at the Montreuex and Istanbul Jazz festivals, with the avant grade swing Knitting Factory group Ball-in-the -Jack at the Berlin and North Sea Jazz festivals, to being the featured artist at LeClub in Moscow and the Blue Note in Fukuoka Japan, and many other top venues. Ben is currently a Professor at Berklee College of Music and Kutztown University.