The Complete Scale & Arpeggio System (JamPlay)

refreshing ideas on the fret board

excellent teacher and method for guitar training with triads /arpeggios . camera angles and recording is bar none. highly recommended for intermediate guitarists that need just a little ump added to their playing. 2 thumbs up

Arpeggios

I was mostly interested in having a reference in all modes (scales?). I was not expecting to contend also with his “ box” system. That said, there is a compelling logic to the system and resulting patterns.

Describes the intent of the course.

Material is well structured and organized. The course promotes learning the notes on the guitar neck.

Somewhat Limited In Usefulness and Bit Scattered Overall

Maybe it's just because I'm coming to this lesson with a decent understanding of the CAGED system, but I find the early reliance on a few patterns in one key, that are so closely tied to that key, to be a frustrating limitation. Lance suggests we take the boxes we've learned (essentially playing out of E and G shapes in CAGED) and then apply them to every key, while also realizing how they are interconnected horizontally on the fretboard so as not to get stuck in boxes. That latter part is great advice, however, based solely on the shapes he provides, that becomes really awkward, really fast in keys that don't fit the patterns as naturally as the key of C. Admittedly, for folks who have kind've built a lot of their understanding of the fretboard around CAGED, anything that isn't CAGED can seem inefficient, inelegant, somewhat clumsy and limiting. . . but still. . . I just feel like the first 25% of this course will be of very limited use to most players just starting to get a feel for the fretboard for anything other than playing in C. I'd also argue it tries to cram in too much. Modes really would best be taught separately, while a longer section on scales and the fretboard, perhaps expanding the early concepts into 5-6 additional keys, would have been more effective. As it stands, this course suffers from the same problems of so many TrueFire course. . . some good info, but often presented in less-than-ideal arrangements. Improving the pedagogical aspect of these, and most lessons on TrueFire, would be really helpful. At the very least, at least Lance tried to give these a good feel of building on each lesson, as opposed to the often completely random feel of a lot of TrueFire courses. I actually think he'd be an excellent one-on-one teacher.