Fourteen years ago, I picked up my guitar. I could play basic open chords and a few riffs, but I felt stuck, so I tried learning scales. My plan to memorize them while falling asleep backfired. Instead of drifting off, my brain kept asking, “What’s the next note?” I wasn’t improving, and I wasn’t sleeping.
Everything changed when someone said, “Scales are just templates.” That was a "Lightbulb" moment. I could bypass memorizing scales, if I could print the scale pattern on a stick. Then just move the stick for key changes. The before was frustration from memorizing scales, plus the time delay of "Where is the next note". The after was a whole new world. I was having the time of my life. Instantly my fingers were mimicking the dot pattern from the sticks onto the fretboard. What a joy to see and play the "right" notes. This is unbelievable!
It worked for one scale, would it work if I added another scale next to the first scale? Yep, it did. So stacking scales next to one another was possible.
That was the "Holy Cow" moment: I had just built a map of all the "good" notes. Having a map gave a whole new POV. Having every note in sight, you could start to see the pieces that made the puzzle. How chords moved. How one note shifting one fret, changed the major scale to a minor scale. Patterns emerged everywhere. You could track the chords in a song. You could see the where and the why. This all led to the "Aha" moment. The moment everything started to make sense.
That insight led to a new way of learning. I couldn't believe how much fun I was having. It was a joy to pick up the guitar and not have scale memorization derail it. I can't tell you how many times I thought I had learned a scale, just to relearn it again and again.
Now I wasn't spinning my wheels and getting frustrated. I was making a lot of progress and building confidence by the day. The "Aha" moments were so sweet, I couldn't stop, and there was nothing on the market that did what my Chord Connectors could do.
Music theory was a mystery. Bits and pieces chords and licks that seemed to float in the air. Within a year, the Chord Connectors illustrated how music theory is merely the shifting of scales, next to one another. Wow!
Chord Connectors help elevate any lesson. A visual aid that pairs the fingers and mind to drive home the point.
You too, can now have the keys that unlock your guitar playing. Good luck and enjoy one of the coolest journeys in life.
