This simple technique has helped me so much to learn the entire fretboard of the guitar and become intimately familiar with chords, scales and riffs all up and down the neck of the guitar.
This 3 minute a day practice method is deceptively simple yet powerful. By breaking it down into uber simple lessons, one can dramatically improve playing style and technique on the guitar. Also simultaneously learn keyboard chords.
- Pick a Triad, any 3 note chord. A major chord, minor chord, diminished, augmented. Or try a way cool sounding Sus4 or Sus2 chord.
- Pick 3 strings on the guitar. In this case, I picked G, B, and high E
- Practice for 3 minutes.
Find places up and down the neck of the guitar where you can play the triad on the 3 chosen strings. It’s perfectly fine to look at a chord dictionary or app. There are plenty of websites out there that will show chord diagrams. I like using Ultimate-Guitar.com. Typically you will find 3 different fingerings for each chord up to the 12th fret. Then the whole pattern repeats, if you go beyond the 12th fret.
