Flatpicking Essentials Vol. 4: Understanding the Fingerboard and Moving Up the Neck by Dan Miller

Introduction
Understanding the Fingerboard, Part I: Working with Chord Shapes
The FDAA System
The F-Shape Chord Form
I-IV-V Progressions
Bile the Cabbage Down
Forked Deer (A Section) Version 1
Forked Deer (A Section) Version 2
Forked Deer (A Section) Version 3
Forked Deer (A Section) Version 4
The D-Shape Chord Form
I-IV-V Progressions
Bile the Cabbage Down
Bonaparte’s Retreat
Worried Man Blues
The Upper-A Shape Chord Form
I-IV-V Progressions
Bile the Cabbage Down
St. Anne’s Reel (B Section)
Red River Valley
The Blues Shuffle
12-Bar Blues
Rock Power Chord Riff
The Lower-A Shape Chord Form
I-IV-V Progressions
Bile the Cabbage Down
Arkansas Traveler
Recognizing Patterns
Overlapping I-IV-V Progression
Chord Progression Practice
I-IV-V Progression Workout
Chord Shapes and Vocal Arrangements
Will the Circle Be Unbroken
Wildwood Flower
Blackberry Blossom
Minor Chord Forms
Understanding the Fingerboard, Part 2: Major Scales
The Major Scale Formula
Finding the Root Note
That Darn B-String
The G Scale Up-the-Neck (Box Patterns)
Box Pattern Exercises
You Are My Sunshine
Whiskey Before Breakfast
Busting Out Of the Box
The One String “Unitar”
Folding Scale on Low E String Unitar
You Are My Sunshine
Whiskey Before Breakfast
The Two String Guitar
Scale Practice
Whiskey Before Breakfast
Moving Around the Fingerboard Part I: Learning More About Shifting
G Major Scale
Shifting Exercises
Billy In The Lowground
Moving Around the Fingerboard Part II: Using Open Strings and “Floating”
Moving Around Using Open Strings
A Folding Scale Using Open Strings
Learning How To “Float”
Floating Through Scales
Temperance Reel
Forked Deer
Moving Around the Fingerboard Part III: Using Harmonized Scales
Harmonized Scale Examples
Whiskey Before Breakfast
Katy Hill (A Section)
Blackberry Blossom (A Section)
Jimmie Rodgers Yodel Lick
Nine Pound Hammer
The Blackberry Blossom Etude
Whiskey Before Breakfast
The Keys of C and D
Forked Deer
Scale Section Summary and Practice Suggestions
Dynamics Exercise
Blackberry Blossom with Fiddle Tune Pulse
Note Duration Exercise
Scale Timing Exercise
Understanding the Fingerboard, Part 3: Working with Arpeggios
Arpeggio Exercise 1
Forked Deer Example
G Arpeggio Exercise 2
G Arpeggio Exercises 3 and 4
G Arpeggio Exercise 5
C and D Arpeggios Exercises
I-IV-V Arpeggio Exercise
Extra Song Examples
Blackberry Blossom
Fisher’s Hornpipe
Red Haired Boy
Cherokee Shuffle
Flowers of Edinburgh
Where To Go From Here
Intervals Appendix
Playing Intervals Relative to the Root
Interval Exercises