Do You Have Fretboard Hopper Syndrome?

Do you have fretboard hopper syndrome?

Let me explain…

Let’s say you wanted to have a blast jamming along to jam tracks. So you pull one up and it’s called, "JAM TRACK IN A MINOR".

You’ve played the pentatonic box before and so you start winging it over the track. You’re randomly playing notes from the scale and trying to solo.

But after a few minutes you realize you’re stuck in one little spot on the neck. It starts to feel stale and dull.

Maybe you can zoom up the octave (12 frets higher) and try that scale to mix it up, but the notes in between are a mystery.

I see this all the time.

Players can’t connect ALL the areas of the fretboard.

They are stuck hopping around from one little box to the next. This is fretboard hopper syndrome. 

But wouldn’t it be great if there were no dusty areas on the neck for you? 

And what if you could get there using just 5 each chords – you probably already know?

With this imagine now you walk into your music room, and grab your guitar off the stand. You power up your speakers and then turn on the same jam track again… 

…but this time…

You start low and make the notes growl and bite. Lick-by-lick you start winding your way up the neck. Pushing and pulling on the strings like Eric Clapton’s solo in “Crossroads”.

You ascend higher and higher and higher… until finally you're wailing on the top notes of the neck.

Hitting those face-melting licks. And leaving your audiences jaws on the floor. Then raise your guitar high in the air like all the rockstars do after their encores live.

With a solidly grounded understanding of the fretboard’s natural roadmap. Playing up and down the neck is a piece of cake.

 If you've struggled with this, get your hands on my free fretboard guide PDF right here now:  

Jon MacLennan