Fretboard Wizard?

[dld2608gmail-com]

Fretboard Wizard is worth every dime. It taught me how to find what key a song is played in, how to find out what chords are in the song or in any given scale and so much more! It’s on sale!? Jump at the chance! Tony recommends you repeat the course a couple times each year and once you buy it your can access it forever.

[petelanger]

I upgraded to TAC for life recently but still haven’t pulled the handle for Fretboard Wizard. Earlier on I didn’t want the “distraction” of another course. Tony puts FW on sale twice per year. Maybe I’ll pull the trigger eventually.

It does come with a money back guarantee!

[Mark_Shark]

Thanks for your input. I may eventually try this but not at his time..

[Lucky_one2]

I have to say the course is excellent…consider it mandatory…will allow you to expand your ability and performance. I plan to retake every 4 months or so.

[Mark_Shark]

I may consider this later, but not at this time…Thanks!

[jumpinjeff]

Fretboard Wizard is a guitar specific musical theory course. I found success because Tony made the complicated plain and easy to understand. Best money I spent for music knowledge by a long shot. I had always wondered why I could play all the notes in a C scale and not all the major cords to make a nice sound. Fretboard Wizard answered that question and about a thousand others I had been meaning to figure out.

[Heidi]

Howdy Jeff! Glad to see you answering questions for folks! Getting to meet you and the others a few years ago was such a blessing, even if I wasn’t ready to take it all in at the time. Question: Do you have any suggestions for memorizing the chords in the most common keys (Nashville # system helps, but on the fly, I can’t remember what chords are sharp or flat (thankfully NONE in C/Am, but the others?) Also, any suggestions for “guessing” when chords within a key may include 7’s? I recently found an “all welcome” bluegrass jam and I never know the songs they play, and only info given is “key”. (no nasville #’s) I’m “calculating in my head” and playing along by ear, but trying to learn more about keys and playing with others in the process.

Cheers!

[jumpinjeff]

I wish we were neighbors Heidi and we could go hours and hours about how to get you all synched up mindwize. How are you with your CAGED practice? Nashville number system knowledge plus CAGED knowledge is when thinking about it takes a backseat to knowing it by feel. I wish I had a quick easy answer for you to take away and put into successful practice. Have you done FretWiz? I cant remember if you did.

[Skyman911]

Fretboard Wizard is a must, and for the price it’s a no brainer. Jumpinjeff nailed it with his reply.

[the-old-coach]

Remember—- you OWN it. It’s kinda within TAC, but also “kinda separate”. So, even if you were to ever give up your TAC membership– you will still own and have access to Fretboard Wizard. Now…… IMHO, go for it. You won’t regret it, you will learn a LOT!

[Mark_Shark]

I will do the Fretboard wizard eventually, but now I’ll have to wait until it comes around again at the special price. Thanks for your input!

[the-old-coach]

Yeah, I don’t really understand the “sale” pricing….. at all. It’s not like it– only on occasion– takes them any longer or shorter time to manufacture a copy of it.

Separate note– It would be great if there was a “free trial/sneak-peek” thing…… (maybe there is).

[Arabianhorselover]

The “first class” is free.

[Bill1am]

On the surface, fretboard wizard is a very basic course on scales, chord theory, and the CAGED mnemonic/paradigm. Valuable, but similar to other platform’s “CAGED” courses. I finished my first pass, and it was good, but I questioned whether it was worth it. I’m not questioning that any more, though. In the couple weeks since, I’ve noticed some other things falling into place. Tony gives you a few tools that have the potential to unlock whole other levels of understanding here: mostly, the ear training lessons. There is one on using major scale shapes to find the key of a song, one on finding chord progressions, and one on finding the melody of a song. These are not easy, and you won’t nail them on the first pass, but along with the so-called chord matrix, there is a box of tools here to tear apart any song, melody, or tune without tab and break it down into our five pieces. I did not “do well” on these lessons (I.e. I didn’t get the example questions right on the first try) but I have been able to figure out lead lines in 3 different songs I love just by following Tony’s procedures. I’ll be making my second pass on fretboard wizard in a couple weeks and I anticipate getting even more out of it.

• This reply was modified 9 months ago by  Bill1am.

[the-old-coach]

I’ve been thru it three times now. To me, as I was going back thru it- (again- both second- and third times around)- all the parts and pieces “came back to me” pretty quickly. Doesn’t mean I had it all figured-out perfectly— but I had a “farther up the ladder” starting point, which allowed me to “free-think” a little, and really dig in more than the previous time(s) thru.

This was the best part. I learned some new things each time back thru. (This makes sense because during the time between going thru the course– you’re supposed to be “learning-more” in general, right?). Each time I went “back thru”, I discovered new things that I either didn’t understand- (and just passed-them-by, with the intent of catching them next time), or discovered things that I had wrong.

There was plenty of both. FBW was a great course overall for me, anyway.

• This reply was modified 9 months ago by  the-old-coach.