Inside and Out: A Guide to Fretboard Mastery

Skill Building Guitar Course from Jeffery Marshall

Have you reached a point in your playing where having greater knowledge of the fretboard is paramount for your progress? If so, this lesson series is for you! Musicians Institute instructor Jeff Marshall provides a bottom up approach to learning the entirety of the fretboard using the basic CAGED system

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In this lesson series, you'll learn the basic CAGED system, then use that information to map the fretboard from chords to arpeggios and scales.

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Series Introduction

Welcome to Inside and Out with Jeff Marshall! In this lesson series, Jeff takes a bottom up approach to fret board proficiency. Using the CAGED system, he builds off of familiar open chord shapes to unlock the fretboard for not only chords, but arpeggio's scales and the beginnings of solo and improvisation. If you're looking for a better handle on the fretboard, this is the lesson series for you!

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Major Triad Chord shapes in CAGED

To get started off with the series, Jeff discusses how the CAGED system is used, then goes over the major chord shapes in that system. This lesson and the rest of the course will be taught in the key of D.

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Major Triad Arpeggios in CAGED

Now that you know the basic triad chord shapes in the CAGED system, you can now start adding triad arpeggios on top of those shapes. Jeff Marshall shows you how!

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Major Pentatonic in 5 CAGED Boxes

The next step in the learning process is to take the triad arpeggios you previously learned and apply them to the Major Pentatonic patterns in the CAGED boxes.

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Major Scale in 5 CAGED Boxes

Now that you have the major pentatonic under your fingers, we add two additional notes to create a full major scale in the associated CAGED boxes.

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Extended Major Pentatonic Scale

Now that you have the full major scale under your fingers, Jeff takes a step back and get's a bit outside of CAGED for this lesson. Depending on the situation, you may find it necessary to step out of bounds to player more comfortably or in a stylistic manner. Jeff discusses the possibilities that knowing the full major scale patterns open up for major pentatonic playing.

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Major CAGED Application

You've learned the major CAGED shapes bottom up from triads, through the Pentatonic. It's now time to apply that material in musical form.

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Minor Triad Chord Shapes in CAGED

Now that you've got the basic major shapes under your fingers, Jeff is going to handle the same training for minor, starting with triad shapes.

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Minor Triad Arpeggios in CAGED

Now that you know the basic minor chord shapes in CAGED, it's time to take a step up the rung to the minor chord arpeggios.

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Minor Pentatonic Shapes in CAGED

With the triad and arpeggios shapes under your fingers, Jeff now teaches the minor pentatonic shapes in CAGED, using the key of D.

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Minor Scale in 5 CAGED boxes

It's now time to take a look at the entire minor scale in the 5 boxes that comprise the CAGED system.

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Extended Minor Pentatonic

Just like with the major scale, Jeff will now go through the process of discussing the extended minor pentatonic scale in the CAGED system.

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Minor CAGED Application

Just like before with the major tonalities, it's time to apply what you've learned about the minor CAGED system to musical form.

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Scale Harmony

Many guitarists start with learning chords, before scales, but logically, chords come from scales. In lesson 14, Jeff teaches the major scale pattern across the neck and discusses harmonizing it in diads and triad chords.

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Diminished Triad Chord in CAGED

In the previous lesson, Jeff introduced a harmonized major scale and with it, the diminished chord. In this lesson he goes deeper into that chord and teaches its chord shapes in the CAGED system.

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Diatonic Root Position Triads

Continuing on with learning to harmonize the major scale, Jeff takes a look at root position triads in different string groupings.

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Diatonic 1st Inversion Triads

In this lesson, you'll take the same knowledge you learned in lesson 16 and change your shapes to give you the 1st inversion diatonic triads of the major scale.

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Diatonic 2nd Inversion Triads

The last set of triad types in the harmonized major scale are the 2nd inversion triads.

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Diatonic Triad Application

Now that you've learned how to harmonize the major scale with diads and all three triad types, on different string groupings, it's time to apply that knowledge in a musical way.

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Major 7th Chords in CAGED

It's now time to start looking at 7th chords as part of the inside and out system using CAGED. Jeff starts with a look at the Major 7th voicings.

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Dominant 7th Chords in CAGED

Now that you know the major 7th chords in the CAGED system, it's time to get the dominant 7th chords under your fingers.

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Minor 7th Chords in CAGED

Moving along with 7th chord voicings, lesson 22 is all about minor 7th chords.

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Minor 7b5 Chords in CAGED

In lesson 23 Jeff offers up another look at 7th chord voicings. This time you'll be learning the minor 7b5 voicings in the CAGED system.

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Diatonic 7th Chord Scales Pattern 1

Now that you know all of the chord voicings for the various 7th chords, it's time to start taking a look at the scale patterns derived from these shapes.

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Diatonic 7th Chord Scales Pattern 2

In lesson 25 you'll learn the second pattern diatonic 7th chord scale.

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Diatonic 7th Chord Scales Pattern 3

In lesson 26 Jeff shows you the pattern 3 diatonic 7th chord scale.

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Diatonic 7th Chord Scales Pattern 4

In lesson 27 you'll be learning pattern for of the diatonic 7th chord scale.

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Diatonic 7th Chord Scales Pattern 5

Lesson 28 shows you the 5th and final pattern, diatonic scale around the 7th chords.

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Harmonic Organization

In this lesson Jeff offers up some supplemental concepts in relation to how harmonic information can be organized.

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Diatonic 7th Chord Arpeggios Pattern 1

Just like the 7th chord scales gone over previously, Jeff will now be walking you through the arpeggio patterns in CAGED, starting with pattern 1.

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Diatonic 7th Chord Arpeggios Pattern 2

Jeff moves on to pattern 2 of the diatonic 7th chord arpeggios.

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Diatonic 7th Chord Arpeggios Pattern 3

Jeff moves on to pattern 3 of the 7th chord diatonic arpeggios.

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Diatonic 7th Chord Arpeggios Pattern 4

Jeff moves on to pattern 4 of the diatonic 7th chord arpeggios.

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Diatonic 7th Chord Arpeggios Pattern 5

Jeff moves on to the 5th and final pattern of the diatonic 7th chord arpeggios.

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Arpeggio Organization

As he did with harmonic content, Jeff goes over organization techniques for the diatonic 7th chord arpeggios.

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Overall Application

Jeff wraps up his Inside and Out series by providing guidance and insight into how to take all the individual chunks of information and apply them to your playing.

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Jeffery has been a staple of the L.A. music scene for more than 30 years. Jeffery left his humble upbringings in Northern Michigan to attend Hollywood's own Musicians Institute in 1989. Upon graduating, he quickly immersed himself in the local music scene playing in a variety of bands, one of which included the band Hardware featuring Tod Howarth of Frehley's Comet, Ted Nugent, and Cheap Trick fame. In 1994 Jeff relocated to Dallas, Texas where he teamed up with alt rockers The Judas Engine and recorded guitars on their self-titled debut Rainmaker Records release. In the late 90's Jeffery relocated to Southern Ohio playing in various local acts where he further honed his craft as a reputable Blues/Rock guitarist. In the early 2000's Jeffery returned to the Los Angeles area and toured with a variety of national acts, which included Lisa Hayes and the Violets, and Pop/Country artist Ashley Jay. About this time is when he met Paul Vallis, the founder of UK's very own Bleeding Harp. Jeffery co-authored and produced Bleeding Harp's debut CD "Gotta Have", released in 2004. Bleeding Harp quickly rose through the ranks of the L.A. Blues scene, regularly playing venues such as Harvelle's, The Blue Cafe, The Coach House and the Catalina Island Blues Festival. In and about 2004 is when Jeffery met Country artist Rick Monroe. The two quickly hit it off as writing partners and Monroe's "Against the Grain" is a result of this pairing. Jeffery moved to Nashville and toured with Rick for a number of years, both in the U.S. and abroad. Rick's video of his Allman Brother's remake "Midnight Rider", which featured Jeffery on guitar and background vocals, was on regular rotation on country music's CMT. The group opened for a number of well-established acts including Dwight Yokum, Montgomery Gentry, and Kenny Wayne Shephard, to name a few.

In 2006 Jeffery returned to L.A. and began teaching at the world-renowned Musicians Institute, Guitar Institute of Technology where he currently resides as a full-time instructor. Jeffery teaches a variety of core classes including Single String Improv, Rhythm Guitar, Guitar Studio Skills, Rhythm Section Workshop, as well as private lessons. He has also written articles and created instructional YouTube videos for Guitar World Magazine. Jeff can be seen playing with guitar phenom Jeff Kollman in his solo group The Jeff Kollman Band and jazz/metal fusion band Cosmosquad at the world famous Baked Potato. He also plays lead guitar for season 4 of "The Voice" contestant Michael Austin in Michael Austin and the Law, which regularly performs at Gilley's Saloon in Las Vegas.
Reviews & Feedback 98/100 with 352 ratings
Mivler

This whole series has been great so far. Thank you

wonxy

Great tempo of teaching. Explaining everything clearly, Going from one point to another logically.

J.Rod

This lesson series is so well mapped out and taught so well I do hope he comes back with more!

AlonShusterr

amazing teacher!

Wi11

Great stuff!

Jeremy77

Best lesson ever

tpanucci

Everything above. Finally a teacher and FULL strategic method that ties it all together. Best teacher on Jam Play for those stuck at the intermediate level (hitting the dreaded barrier) knowing songs by memory and have rhythm chord playing do

CARWASH

Very good ,easy to listen to and understand ..

MLincoln

Excellent series! Please, do more lessons with this teacher!

ToddR

Finally clicked in my brain for major Pentatonic with this lesson. Thanks

Tesla77

Great stuff

brechtethereal

He's likeable and it starts in a way that is easy to understand. The only thing I'm missing is now some tabs of some exercises which I will make myself. It would have been great to deliver those in guitarpro format though :)

Vanbeeth1

Totally enjoyed this series! Great job Jeff! The material is well-organized and easy to follow. Jeff gives some great tips on improvising and composing. Thanks again!

tze_sir

I don't know why the options here are using radio buttons, I could otherwise easily select multiple! But I guess that yes, in general, I absolutely did need this demonstration of the different boxes being connected together.

Lamgef

I have not idea, why, after years of hitting my head against CAGED, this lesson series if finally making it stick. It is because I know the concepts, but never put them together? Is it because of Jeff Marshall? I have no clue. But I did just "p

skiplee7

I liked the teacher. Easy to understand. It's just what I needed.

johnpochas

This course and Jeff's approach is brilliant( gee can you tell I'm excited!} From the simple idea of keeping the course in SAME key to his building on what was previously taught. I had so many lesson for example say - ok lets do it in ___ key,

Tho0075

I was able to chart out the system and jam in each of the CAGED positions with the aid of this lesson. Now to put in many hours or practice time.

germanym

I would have picked all three accolades if that was an option. Good course/teacher.

fretnomo

I'll check ?3 above boxes Did I say structured? Thanks

brian1962

i'm hoping to improve my improvising and know i need to learn arpeggios. no short cuts!

frankf

Jeff articulates the concepts clearly and logically. It appears that this was recorded a few years back and is his only one. It would be great if he were invited back to do more (perhaps he was). I would certainly enjoy that.

July2019

Nice solo work. TY!

michelbang

Really been playing rock and classical guitar for 62 years and finally understood the fretboard from your lessons… Theory the practical way: inside the head and out on the fretboard… TKS

kipkohl

Teacher is good with low key style

Mrskent1

The instructor explained how to know which note is the root note.

Tonetti

The link between triads, pentatonic, and full major scales within the CAGED boxes and further harmonisation with chords is explained with mastery by Jeff. I had to re-watch 3 times in order to land the boxes with their respective chords but onc

keith_moody

This is the money shot that brings it all together.

LuckyET

this lesson is amazing!

rkoby

This particular lesson helped pull together everything he has gone through in this course. I wish he had kind of done this at the start or told us to go listen to this part at the start and then come back and go through everything so that we u

Manderino

This was great! Thanks Jeff!

Jayded

What an excellent teacher Jeff is, I've been trying to get my head around this stuff for years!

ozzi2216

wow !!! it finally clicked !!!!!! lol