Curriculum

Solo & Scale Mastery

For players who can play songs but have never improvised

This course is a 12-week roadmap for players who can already play songs but have never tried improvising a solo. Instead of memorizing scales up and down, you'll start by training your ear and fingers to land on the chord's 3rd every time the chord changes — building a real sense of choosing your own notes on the fretboard.

Month 1 connects all five pentatonic boxes across the neck and adds blues phrasing with bending and vibrato. Month 2 brings in diatonic scales and chord-tone mapping to smoothly outline a ii-V-I. Month 3 layers in Dorian and Mixolydian color along with space and phrasing, building up to recording your own original solo.

If your hands are warmed up but you freeze wondering "what do I even play now," this journey ends with you singing freely over a backing track — in your own voice.

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Week 0 · Day 1 — Orientation: Why We 'Land on the 3rd' Week 0 · Day 2 — The Blueprint for Every Warm-Up: Alternate Picking & Finger Independence Week 0 · Day 3 — Refresh the Am Pentatonic Box 1 → First Taste of 3rd Intervals Week 0 · Day 4 — Metronome Discipline + Backing Track & Recording Setup + Learning to Hear Yourself

Locking In the Am Pentatonic Box 1 + Slow 4-Note Sequences Intensive Training: 3rd-Interval (Skip) Patterns Ramping Up Sequence Speed (80–90 BPM) + Keeping Accuracy Landing on the Root / ♭3 Over an Am One-Chord Backing Track

Locking In Pentatonic Box 2 + Sliding the Box 1↔2 Bridge Locking In Pentatonic Box 3 + Sliding the Box 2↔3 Bridge A 3rd-Interval Sequence Linking Box 1-2-3 (Connection Accuracy) Cross-Box Target-Landing Improv Over an Am Backing Track

Locking In Pentatonic Box 4 + Sliding the Box 3↔4 Connection Locking In Pentatonic Box 5 + Connecting Box 4↔5↔the Octave A Full-Neck 3rd-Interval Run Connecting Boxes 1 through 5 Improvising Across the Whole Neck + Landing on the Nearest 3rd

Blue Note (♭5) Basics + Accurate-Pitch Bending Vibrato Technique (Wrist vs. Finger) + Mapping ♭5 Across Every Box Blues Phrasing — 3rd Intervals + ♭5 Passing Tone + Bend/Vibrato One-Chord Jam Recording → Self-Feedback → Month 1 Wrap-Up

Am Pentatonic Box 1 Review — Chewing It Again With '3rd Intervals,' Not Up-and-Down Adding the 2nd (B) — a Four-Note Run That Passes Through B and Lands on the 3rd (C) Adding the 6th (F) — Resolving Through F to the 5th (E) and the 3rd (C) A Natural Minor Integration Jam — B and F as Color, Landing on C

Relative Keys — Same Shape, Just Move Your Center from A to C (Dual-Key Degree Labels) C Major 3rd-Interval Sequence — Landing on the Bright 3rd (E) Am↔C Tonal Center Switch Drill — Shuttling Between Two Resolutions in 4-Note Groups Am↔C Switching Backing Jam — Land on E Over C, Land on C Over Am

Am Chord Tones (A·C·E) — Mapping the Whole Neck, Spotting the 3rd (C) C Chord Tones (C·E·G) — Mapping the Whole Neck, Spotting the 3rd (E) Am ↔ C Chord Tone Connections — Linking 3rds with Minimal Movement Chord-Tone-Only Backing Jam + Recording Analysis — Checking Your 3rd-Landing Accuracy

ii-V-I Guide Tone Concept + Locking In F·B·E Connecting the Guide Tone Line — F→B→E, the Shortest Path Improvising 3rd Landings — Arriving Exactly on the Chord Change Beat Deep-Dive Recording Analysis — Precisely Checking Landing Timing and Vibrato

Dorian's Secret in One Note: Meeting the Major 6th, F# Sweeping Dorian with 3rd Intervals + the F# Color Line 4-Note Sequences + Landing on Chord 3rds: C for Am7, F# for D7 Combining It All: An 8-Bar Improv with Major 6th Color + Chord 3rd Landings

Intro to Mixolydian + Two Identity Notes: the Tension of ♭7 (G) and the Resolution of the Major 3rd (C#) Mixolydian 4-Note Sequences + Turning Major 3rd Targeting into Muscle Memory Mixolydian Position 2 + Widening the Neck by Connecting Forms (Position Shift) Putting It Together: Targeting the 3rd for Each Chord in an A7-D7 Blues + Connecting the Neck with 3rd Intervals

Mixolydian Switching Over a Blues Backing Track + Sticky Layback Phrasing Dorian Switching Over a Funk Backing Track + Tight Rest-Driven Phrasing Mixolydian Switching Over a Rock Backing Track + Powerful Long Tones & Bold Bends Integration Medley: Switching Both Mode and Phrasing Mood in Real Time with Every Genre Change

Designing Your Original Solo — Chord Progression and Finding Your 'One Home' Position Composing Motifs and Phrases — Toss Out a Line, Then Answer It Finishing the Full Solo and Your First Recording — Stitching 8 Bars into One Self-Feedback and Retakes — Operating on Your Own Recording by Ear, Then Recording It Again

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