• Structured path to excellence

    We take you by the hand to lead you through what, how and why. No BS. Just expert guitar instruction to confidently advance your craft.

  • Comprehensive curriculum

    Arranged in a spiral learning pattern, the course covers ear training, music theory, and application. Mastery has never been more accessible!

  • Loads of inspiration

    Learn at your own pace through 144 video lessons, 12 lessons per step in 12 steps. *Note: currently completed to Step 5. Lessons going up weekly.

 

It's about far more than just learning scale and chord patterns. It's about connecting your ear to the fretboard so you know instinctively how every note sounds AS you play it. No more hunting for notes and no more nasty surprises while improvising!

This self-paced, structured learning environment housed within a supportive guitar community takes you by the hand through each step of the process. This revolutionary approach is a must for the musician who wants to dominate the instrument. 

Highlights of the FRETBOARD MAPPING SYSTEM:

  • Reassessment of the true goal of fretboard mastery and how it can be achieved.
  • Scales reimagined and integrated with the ear.
  • Ear training and music theory applied at EVERY step along the way.
  • All musical structure shapes, plus how they integrate with one another.
  • How to work with chord changes.
  • Harmonic context in virtually all situations.
  • And much, much more.


*Note: This is a HUGE course with a lot of videos that include lots of diagrams. It is slated to include a total of 12 videos lessons per Step, with a total of 12 steps (so 144). As our guiding principle is uncompromising quality, we are taking time to insure everything is covered in the best possible way. So the course is incomplete at this time... at launch, currently up to Step 5. The idea is to stay ahead of your progress. Material will be going up steadily in coming months.

*Note: It may be helpful to also use Troy's book/audio course Fretboard Mastery while going through this online course. However, this is not entirely necessary. While it's true that the general material and goal is similar, this online course is an entirely new approach and fully self contained. In addition, you'll find its step by step nature more naturally in line with real world application

Troy Stetina

Troy Stetina is a guitarist, music educator and author specializing in all styles of rock, metal, and shred guitar. He has created more than 50 book/audio and video methods that have sold over 1 million copes and guided a generation of guitarists toward mastery. He's taught beginners to rock stars, conducted masterclasses around the world, and recorded and performed extensively. He is an avid reader of science, history, cosmology, philosophy, psychology, comparative religion and spirituality. He was also an ordained minister who enjoys traveling, hiking, movies with plots, good TED talks, and a dark, night sky. He resides in New Mexico with his wife Alexis.

Course curriculum

    1. How Did We Get Here and Where Are We Headed?!?

      FREE PREVIEW

    2. How to Get the Most Out of this Course

      FREE PREVIEW

    1. What Is a Scale?

    2. Matching Your Vocal Range

    3. Open Position E Major Scale

    4. Major Scale Structure on a Single String

    5. Adding Harmony

    6. Melodic Decoration

    7. Harmony as Dyads

    8. "Morning Star" (Backing Track 1)

    9. Minor Pentatonic Ear Training

    10. Minor Pentatonic Structure (Single String)

    11. Minor Pentatonic Positional Tones & Transposing Octaves

    12. Blues Groove: Improv/Sing (Backing Track 2)

    1. Overview, What Is a Chord? The Chord/Scale Connection

    2. Adding a 2nd Harmony to Create Triads

    3. Triads as Stacked 3rds? Or as Scale Tones?

    4. All Roads Lead to Rome

    5. Shape 1 Triads (Major/Minor/Diminished)

    6. Connecting Your Ear to SHAPE 1 Triads

    7. Improv Voice Leading Plus Identifying Triads by “Color”

    8. Shape 2 Triads (Major/Minor/Diminished)

    9. Shape 3 Triads (Major/Minor/Diminished)

    10. How Well Do You Know SHAPES 1, 2 & 3?

    11. Shape “B” Variations

    12. Shape “C” Variations

    1. What Is CAGED? (And Who Is ED-CAG?)

    2. Chord Voicing and Inversion

    3. Power Chord Voicing in ED-CAG

    4. Chord & Arpeggio Integration

    5. Shifting Tonal Center & New Chord Shapes

    6. Other Keys, Scale Decoration & Shifting Forms

    7. Moving Up & Down the Neck with Triads

    8. Two-Chord Progression (E-D) with Backing Tracks

    9. Adding String Groups 1-2-3 and 3-4-5 (E-D)

    10. Finding 6th Intervals within the Triads

    11. Three-Chord Progression (E-A-B)

    12. Three-Chord Progression (E-A-D)

    1. The Dark Side of ED-CAG

    2. Em Triads by String Group

    3. Diatonic E Minor with Harmony

    4. Two-Chord Progression (Em-D)

    5. Three-Chord Progression (Em-C-D)

    6. Superimposing: Triad / Pentatonic / Diatonic

    7. Am Triads & Arpeggios

    8. Three-Chord Progression (Am-G-F)

    9. Four-Chord Progression (E-A-B-C#m)

    10. Modes of the Major Scale (PART 1)

    11. Harmonic Context: Relative Major/Minor

    12. Seeing the Modes in Progressions

    13. One Key; Moving Gravitation Points

About this course

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  • 51 lessons
  • 7.5 hours of video content

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Reviews of the Fretboard Mapping System

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Kevin Authur

As an ongoing private student of Troy, I was so excited to see the release of his Fretboard Mapping System. I have had to learn through hard knocks and private coaching that ear training was the missing key in my extensive background. In short, ...

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As an ongoing private student of Troy, I was so excited to see the release of his Fretboard Mapping System. I have had to learn through hard knocks and private coaching that ear training was the missing key in my extensive background. In short, my mechanical skills had far outgrown my "natural" ear ability. While your ear does develop as you play more and more music, Troy has taken this "unconscious, haphazard" approach for everyone...broken it down and laid it out in a thorough, logical and dedicated manner. I'm following the system and APPLYING everything into my daily practice regimen. The results have already exceeded my expectations. My ear is responding in ways that almost seem magical! I'm zoning in on the right melodic notes far more easily. I'm demonstrating a growing command over the fretboard. My ability to improvise over a given chord progression has significantly improved. If you want to really achieve fretboard fluency and are willing to put daily attention into Troy's methods, there's no doubt that his Fretboard Mapping System will deliver...and then some! I sincerely hope you will not waste as much time as I have in pursuing techniques, scales, licks, studying solos...only to see marginal improvements over a very long duration of effort. Learn from my mistakes and go straight to one of the biggest keys...ear training...and let the master player, master teacher, Sifu of Shred put you firmly on the path of real no-nonsense improvement!

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