So the 1st Rule of the GUITAR is So to be in control of the guitar is simply

4 FINGERS = 4 FRETS
to be in control of those 4 frets.
BUT ARE YOU IN CONTROL OR NOT?
BEST WAY TO TELL FOR SURE IS...

BE ABLE TO TOUCH ALL 4 FRETS AT ONCE

The main physical skill you must develop to be a guitarist is to be able to control those 4 frets with your 4 consecutive fingers
and coordinate this with alternate picking with your pick hand. To practice these CHROMATIC SCALES, make sure you are sitting
and holding the guitar in the most practical manner...( check VIDEO LESSON 3)...RIGHT KNEE...HEAD UP...etc. You will never
see the end of this exercise. There is no such thing as being to good at it. You can always get faster...cleaner... BETTER.

BUT IT ACTUALLY REQUIRES

TO CONTROL ALL 12 NOTES 5 FRETS
At the bottom of the neck, you have the luxury of using the open string as that 5th fret.
FURTHER UP THE NECK
YOU MUST LEARN TO DO
YOU LEARN TO CONTROL 2 CONSECUTIVE FRETS WITH 1 FINGER !
FINGER SHIFTS
For now, shift with your INDEX FINGER when going up the scale and shift with your PINKY coming down
the scale. Use LOGICAL FINGERS. Try to "STAY IN THE BOX". Don't shift AWAY from your HAND.

INDEX When going down

the scale, start

SHIFTS
with your pinky on
your high E string.
Walk down until
you get to your index
When going up the finger. Then reach out
scale, start here.
an extra fret with
Walk up until you
your pinky on your
get to your pinky.
Then reach out an next lower string
extra fret with and then "scoot"
your index finger it across the fret
on your next string back onto the fret
and then "scoot" it would normally
it across the fret have been on and
back onto the fret begin walking down
it would normally that string. No shift
have been on and required between your
begin walking up your B STRING and
that string and so on. your G STRING. Those
No shift required strings are tuned one
between your pinky note closer together.
on your G STRING

PINKY
and your B STRING
because those strings
are tuned one note
closer together.

SHIFTS
If you can play a CHROMATIC SCALE on your guitar, you can do anything you want in music just like if
you can type the alphabet on the typewriter, you can do what you want in the English language. You need
to memorize where the notes are on your neck so make sure you put your FRETBOARD CHART together.