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Any level of guitarist will love it! Absolute beginners up to teachers can use the Fretboard Escalator. From beginners just learning scale patterns or chords to intermediates who are learning CAGED, targeting chord tones or advanced players working on modes, arpegios etc and teachers looking to level up their teaching offerings the Fretboard Escalator is for you.

Solo in any Key! Buying posters and books or looking up scales online seems like a good idea until you try to actually use these tools while playing guitar. Where is the poster? is it close to your practice area? can you take it to a jam? Are you brining your laptop or phone with you? These seem like great tools until you are actually practicing and realize that they are just not practical. Not to mention that posters only show one key of a scale... pretty useless when someone wants to jam in a different Key! You would need 12 posters for just the pentatonic scale, nothing compares to the practicality of the Fretboard Escalator.

The Fretboard Escalator solves all these problem. It is portable, easy to read and in seconds can change your scales to any key. Set it down on your amp and if you get lost glance over at it to find yourself on the neck or explore a new area you never play on the neck. 

Best of all by building the scale yourself on the board you will learn exactly how it was formed. Then you can apply that knowledge without using music book. 

Is theory scaring you? Well it shouldn't! Basic music theory is easy and will give you confidence in your playing. The Fretboard Escalator can be used completely without music theory... however after using it for a while you will be secretly be learning scales and building the foundations of theory even if you don't realize it.

Do you want to move into the world of lead guitar but don't know where to start? In just one lesson you will be playing along with backing tracks changing keys, and making up your own leads with or without theory. You can use it to memorize scale patterns first then add in root notes, blues notes, thirds and fifths (careful you may learn some theory accidentally)... that's all you need to create 90% of the music of today. 

Learning the CAGED system? plot out the CAGED system onto the Fretboard Escalator, memorize the shapes, use it as a reference when jamming, or composing. There is no better way to visualize the CAGED system than a three dimensional tool. Again in seconds change keys in the CAGED system.

Portability is key. You can take the Fretboard Escalator with you anywhere, you can practice anywhere even without a guitar. It's easy to convey to bandmates what you are doing heck even the Bass player may get better using it.... 

More than one? What is better than one Fretboard Escalator? TWO, or THREE! Yes I find having multiple is quite handy. Once you have the patterns memorized you may not want to be taking pins in and out anymore but want to lock in a few scales for reference while playing. In this case a small drop of crazy glue will keep  the pins in place forever but don't worry you can still change the key in seconds. 

Examples of why you may want more than one.

1. Lock in a minor Pentatonic to play over anything (CAGED as well)

2. Lock in the Major scale

3. Lock in the Blues scale

4. Have a solo that changes between three chords? Can't quite grasp switching between scales yet? set three Fretboard Escalators to each chord change and just glance between them

5. So you can lend one to your Bass player :)

Understand the Fretboard... You can use this tool for just pattern playing or you can slowly introduce yourself to "intervals" can targeting simple tones such as the 1, 3, b3 and 5. These are stepping stones to guitar greatness. 

Quality.... This tool will last forever, put it in your will. how long will your poster last?

Stop playing scales vertically and start moving horizontally. After you get the patterns learned connecting them together is key, glancing over to the Fretboard Escalator you can quickly move to other areas on the neck, make up your own horizontal movements and get over the "vertical scale hump"