Does this sound like you? You know scales, you dabble with modes, you know your chords and you can handle a bit of improvising, but you're still wondering how it is that some players seem to have the whole fretboard at their disposal; They seem to know how, why and where to find every last fragment of music ... with total ease. The whole finger board seems to be friendly, familiar territory to them, no matter what the music is doing.

Enviable? Yes, and learnable.

There is a bit of a 'trick' to it as it all turns out, a simple visualization technique that keeps track of it all, whether chords, melody or harmony. My book PlaneTalk, the companion DVD and Slide Rule are the exposition of that 'trick'.

I'm Kirk Lorange and I've been twanging away since 1961, professionally since 1969 and when it comes to playing guitars, I do know my stuff (listen to my music here). I'm also the creator of Guitar for Beginners and Beyond, a free teaching site with a community of over 58,000 registered members.

After digesting the lesson that PlaneTalk teaches, you will be armed with the most powerful, yet simple, tool that you will ever need to open up the fretboard from nut to sound hole. The simple map and mindset that I describe (and I mean simple) is one that Music herself imposes on the fretboard ... not grids, not boxes, not remembering the names of famous people, nor raw ingredients like scales or modes. It relies on something that you already know. You just don't realize how well you can know it. Of course, once you learn this simple way of thinking, you will have to practice it at length.

Put scales & modes on the back burner, let them take care of themselves.

If you're one of the thousands (I read forums too) of players who know scales, modes, the pentatonics, but remain frustrated because they still can't turn them into music, then do yourself a favor: order the package and learn for yourself that last missing piece of the puzzle you've been waiting for. You know it exists, you've seen for yourself players who are at ease anywhere on the fretboard at any time, in any style, whether playing lines, rhythm or improvising, creating real melody and relevant guitar parts that always fit. They must be thinking of something! I know my early attempts at improvisation always sounded like scales, and I spent years searching for that one, bottom-line, never-fail fretboard landmark that would help me get away from the amateurish sounding lines I was playing. I found it, and PlaneTalk has taught it to thousands of players World wide since I went online in 1997.

Click here for another movie example of me improvising
over a trickier progression à la PlaneTalk

Join the thousands who have learned the PlaneTalk mindset

Once you read the book and viewed the DVD, you can come and join us in the private PlaneTalkers Forum, where we discuss the technique in detail and I answer questions. We do this on a daily basis. We all agree that there is no more succinct way to look at a fretboard and see ALL the possibilities at once.

The rest of the PlaneTalk site is here ...
more on the book and DVD, bio etc.

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