In this video I present a method of mapping the diatonic system on the guitar fretboard in standard tuning. I've been using and refining this method for decades with many hundreds of private students to excellent results.
I was motivated to develop this map because, while there are many guitar methods which cover various aspects of playing scales, chords, arpeggios, riffs, etc ... there is no standard method for mapping and identifying the structures of the diatonic keys in their own right.
As the guitar presents the player with the challenge of simply knowing were all the notes are within each key, I became focused on finding a way to delineate key structures in a way that would be clear and accessible so that I could find any note in a key by knowing their relative physical positions.
Since all keys have the same structure, they also have the same geometric arrangement on the fretboard. It's just a matter of deciding how to depict and identify these structures. Having been unable to find any such map after years of searching, I created my own, which I make available here:
