Improv 101 video course

Learn to improvise melodic solos over chord changes, in any style, with no music theory background needed.

Go from playing exercises to making music. Improv 101 builds your fretboard fluency one layer at a time. It starts from two simple shapes, the rectangle and the stack, and grows into pentatonics, the blues scale, triads, chord tones, and the modes. The goal isn't to memorize more; it's to connect what you already know so you can express yourself.

What's inside

• Eight modules, from the minor pentatonic through chord-tone soloing, one scale per chord, the modes, triad targets, and the blues
• Two ways to solo over changes: chord-tone targeting and one scale per chord
• In every module, a big-picture idea, a bit of theory, a fretboard visualization, one note to learn across the neck, focused exercises, and a backing track to improvise over
• More than four hours of video lessons
• The Course Guide: 69 pages and more than 150 fretboard diagrams, as a PDF and an EPUB, in right- and left-handed editions
• A "Memorize This" sheet for each module, and every backing track as loops for Boss and Ditto loopers
• The practice tools the course uses: the Jam Track Player with every Improv 101 backing track, the Scale Visualizer, and the Metronome & Drone Generator
• One payment, and the course is yours to keep

By the end, you'll be improvising over real songs like "Little Wing" in any key.

The first two modules are free to watch at fretscience.com/courses/improv101, with no account needed.