Hey, everybody, how's it going? Hope you're having a great one. This is actually going to be a solo show where I'm going to be talking about my fretboard woes because there have been many. There have been many fretboard woes, which is kind of interesting because one of the things I pride myself most on now is my understanding, visualization, fluency around the fretboard.

And it's kind of one of the things that I'm known for as well in terms of, you know,

educational stuff, content for base students is my approach to the fretboard and that I've

systematized it

and I've got various ways of teaching it.

But if you look back at, well, stuff that I've probably,

I've never really talked about this stuff, right?

Because, well, it's never came up, I guess.

Which is why this might be a really interesting episode.

Is that the reason that I'm actually really fluid and fluent on the fretboard is because of the hot coals I had to walk over when I was younger because I found it incredible.

I would say harder than the average human to get my fretboard down.

So I'm consistently interested in the reality of what you see, you know, like when you see

somebody burning around on YouTube, you know, they're flying around the fretboard, whether like

technique or fluency in terms of understanding where they are on the fretboard. I'm constantly

interested about like the backstory. What gave them the ability to do that? Did they find it hard?

Was it natural for them? Because, you know, and the reason why I'm interested in it, because I found it so hard.

And I actually found it hard.

I think I found everything hard.

Honestly, I think there's not many things that I think that I found really natural.

But there are definitely certain things that jumped out at me of being overly complex or just

yeah like a mystery to me and I was sat in and it wasn't my imagination is I was you know and I'll tell

you a story in this podcast about where I was sat in a small group of guitar players actually with the guitar

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