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Learning the scale Note for Note?
What does Tony mean when he says “learn the scale note for note”.
Does that mean
(i) learn the scale by the name of the notes
(ii) learn the scale by the intervals
(iii) learn the shape.
Learning a lot of different scales by name of note doesn’t make a lot of sense.
Learning the intervals makes more sense. -
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Good question. I always interpreted that as meaning: “remember the fretted positions” since he goes string by string and gives you the fret number as he moves from top to bottom or bottom to top.
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He means to learn the scale so you recreate it. That could be whatever works for you, the pattern, the notes, the intervals, the string/fret positions, etc.
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If you call out each note’s name as you pick them you will learn the fret board much faster. If you call out a fret location to me I can give you the note’s name. Not bragging just stating that I always called out the note’s name so I know where all of the notes are located on the fret board.
How many G notes are there on frets, open string to 5th fret of the fret board – 4. How many e notes- 4. How Many D notes – 3. Learn that and you can figure out any chord shape any where they are located.
How many c chords within the same area- 5 different shapes. How many C chords on the treble strings E, B, G in the same area- 2
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This reply was modified 2 months, 2 weeks ago by jorgemac.
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</div>Jorge, that just confused me…
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This reply was modified 2 months, 2 weeks ago by
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Just saying that if you know the actual note under your fretted finger it will help make your guitar playing learning curve move along a little quicker. There are a lot of important parts to learning to pick cool sounds. If you don’t know where you are on the fret board it will take you much longer to advance your learning curve.
I could talk about music theory For a long boring time, If you fret an D chord on the 2nd and third frets what note in that chord is under each fret. 3 notes usually make up any major chord, the root note the 3rd note of the scale and the 5th note of the scale. Which scale note is under each finger? the root note is located on B/3 fret, the 3rd of the Chord is located on the E/2 fret and the 5th of the chord is located on the G/2 fret. Id you wanted to use that chord shape and play a D minor what finger do you need to move and where do you move it to? Again if you know the fret board you can salve this easily. Just move the E/2 back to E/1 and you are playing an D minor chord’
If you move that chord down the neck 2 frets the order will be the same but the chord will be a E chord. What finger do you need to move to make the E chord a E minor chord? just copy what you did t0 change the D to D minor. Again if you know the fret board it all makes sense.
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I found Interval focus to be key for my playing…..I have always said there is only one scale that changes pitch when we move location (all my playing friends just collectively rolled their eyes). Everything is variation on this. Over time doing anything is more important than doing nothing but it takes a while to understand how that works. It I why I looked everywhere for a good teacher and settled here.
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Too true J.J.
the scales stay the same in each key, just the sharp/flats change fret positions.
Dm key Or a Am key use the same notes of there own scale. 1, 3b, 4, 5, 7b.
The fret locations change for sharps and flats in each of the 2 keys.
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and that is just the launch pad into the fractile!
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