🎸 The Plateau Most Swing Guitarists Hit

If you’ve worked through Swing Guitar 101 (or similar material), you probably:

• Know basic shell voicings

• Can comp through tunes without getting totally lost

• Have dipped your toes into soloing

But…

• Your chords feel static

• Your solos don’t clearly outline the changes

• Upper extensions feel mysterious or risky

• You know the rules, but not the language

You’re no longer a beginner —
but you don’t yet feel fluent.

That’s exactly the gap Swing Guitar 201 fills.

🧠 What Swing Guitar 201 Is Really About

Swing Guitar 201 is about connection.

Connecting:

• Shell voicings → upper extensions

• Chords → arpeggios

• Arpeggios → scales

• Scales → real swing vocabulary

This course is where things stop feeling academic
and start sounding intentional, melodic, and stylistically correct.

🔍 What Makes This Course Different

Most swing courses do one of two things:

1. Stay too basic

2. Get way too theoretical, way too fast

Swing Guitar 201 lives in the sweet spot.

We focus on:

• Pedal-tone chord motion (huge for swing comping)

• Drop 2 voicings you’ll actually use

• Tetrad arpeggios that outline harmony clearly

• Guide tones & change-running, not random scales

• Classic swing & bebop vocabulary in real tunes

Everything is taught inside actual repertoire, not in isolation.

🎶 Tunes We’ll Be Using

We use the same tunes as Swing Guitar 101, but go much deeper:

• 12 Bar Blues

• After You’ve Gone

• I’ve Found a New Baby

Each tune is covered over two weeks, allowing time for:

• Harmony

• Voicings

• Arpeggios

• Scales

• Improvisation concepts

🎥 Course Format

• Pre-recorded lessons released weekly

• Live group session every Thursday at 6pm ET

  • Overview

  • Guided application

  • Q&A

• Lifetime access to all materials

Watch on your schedule.
Show up live when you can.

Course Outline

🎤 About Your Instructor

Hi — I’m Hayes Griffin.

I’ve spent 20+ years as a professional guitarist and educator, toured internationally, earned a Master’s degree from New England Conservatory, and now teach at Denison University.

But more importantly?

I’ve taught thousands of guitarists who felt exactly like you do right now — capable, motivated, but stuck.

Fretboard Freedom is the system I use to help players finally connect the dots.