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The Fretboard Foundation mission is to create fluent guitar players through practical application of established theories of learning and skill development.

Jason Grimes
Hello! I'm Jason Grimes.
I created the Fretboard Foundation materials and operate this site.

I've played guitar and studied music for over 30 years. Over the course of about ten years I assembled some of my learnings into a book, which I use as the basis of my ongoing study: Fretboard Foundation: Practical building blocks for intermediate guitarists. The book is available here for free, along with guitar lessons, articles, and software study tools I've created.

It took me a long time to become fluent on guitar, because it turns out I was practicing in ineffective ways. Eventually I found an extensive body of research into the most efficient ways to acquire complex skills, and it led me to change my approach. Then I developed fluency surprisingly quickly.

I became fluent on guitar using the tools and materials on this site. I hope others can use them to achieve similar results, which is why I provide them here for free.

Contact

The only way I can know for sure this works for others is if they tell me. If you try these methods, please let me know how it goes, good or bad. I really do want to hear from you.

Reach me by email at [email protected].

Guitar Fluency

You (yes, even you) can become fluent on guitar. Sooner than you think.

The Right Way to Learn Guitar

The teaching philosophy of Fretboard Foundation.

Free Guitar Lessons

A growing collection of free online courses and standalone lessons for learning guitar.

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