How to Learn Jazz Guitar: Should You See the Fretboard in Scale Blocks or Diagonally?
Box-shaped scale positions and three-notes-per-string patterns are built for fast rock and metal picking. For jazz, the guitar makes more sense read diagonally: shell voicings, the same two-octave shape repeating across the strings, and lines learned from real tunes instead of from tab.
Liberating the Fretboard: Wes Montgomery's Diagonal Logic and Functional Harmony
Many players feel trapped in vertical scale positions. This article explains how Wes Montgomery’s diagonal fretboard approach, harmonic function, and upper-structure triads reveal the guitar as a flowing map of color and tension—not a set of boxes.