Testing Your Fretting

Before you synchronize the hands, it helps to know what the fretting hand can already do on its own.

In this section, you’ll test common three-note shapes and fingering choices at realistic speeds, so you can identify the combinations that feel smooth, fast, and reliable.

Lesson

Chapter 1 - Fretting Diagnostics

Tips for testing the fretting hand

Chapter 2 - Three-Note Shapes

Naming the most important shapes in fretting

Chapter 3 - Three-Note Fingerings

Ranking your finger-to-fret combinations

Chapter 4 - The Hammer-Pull Test

A single pickstroke as a core testing tool

Chapter 5 - Roll Pattern Speed

Use this elemental motion as a powerful diagnostic