Understanding Keys Unlocks Music
Follow the Fretboard Toolbox Path and see how chords, scales, and keys all fit together, so you can start unlocking the music theory that matters most!
Music isn’t random chord & scale shapes
The Toolbox Path helps move from “put your fingers here” to creating and communicating on whatever instrument you play, by helping you see the music theory that matters most.
See how that music theory is built from the ground up with the free Toolbox Pathfinder.
Unlocking music doesn’t happen all at once.
It happens step-by-step, as you start seeing how beautifully, and predictably, all of the pieces connect.
Best of all, when you learn to see the connections on one instrument, you understand them on any instrument!
To start discovering the connections, try following the “Toolbox Path”.
Learn lots more about the Toolbox Path on the Start Here page.
The Toolbox Path (overview)
Step 1. Learn the Major scale and discover all the doors it unlocks.
Step 3. Learn the notes that make up those chords, and find them on your instrument.
Step 2. See how the chords of a key are built from those notes.
Step 4. Practice common chord progressions and learn their Roman numerals.
Step 6. Discover the hidden connections in pentatonic scales.
Step 5. Open up a new world of sounds with natural minor keys.
Step 7. Unlock the secrets to bluesy sounds in Major keys.
Then you put your music on shuffle, and start unlocking music!
The Major scale holds the key to unlock the doors.
That’s what Fretboard Toolboxes help you see:
in any key and on any instrument.
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