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It sounds like you’ve traded in your wife for a guitar (or 2), @Rando . I can understand how that could be a good thing. I’m happy you are keeping yourself busy with something as beneficial as music and guitar. In my opinion, you couldn’t pick better hobbies than playing guitar and building guitars.
And welcome back to this amazing community and Tony’s warm and silly instructions. I, too, love TAC and Tony.
MG 😀
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Hey @Chilly ;
Check out my post about the 5 patterns from FW lesson 1:
https://tonypolecastro.com/family-forums/topic/easy-way-to-remember-5-patterns-from-fw/
Also, be sure to go to the bottom of the thread. I have made a chart available that shows the intervals across the strings in diagram form.
I hope this helps.
MG 😀
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Great tip, @Guitargeezer-Jack . I know Tony has given this to us, but many people will have skipped it, thinking they don’t need it.
However, by the time our old joints let us know we do need it, we are in pain and the stretches won’t work until we’ve healed some.
This is not a healing technique, this is a PREVENTIVE technique.
Again, thanks for posting this Jack.
MG 😀
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Here is a diagram I made to help with understanding the intervals moving across the strings.
Enjoy, MG 😀
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Hello @Mrfredsporty ;
I’m sorry I didn’t realize you were in Florida. Over on justmusicgeeks.com, everyone was asking about the welfare of those in Florida. I guess you couldn’t have responded anyway as you were out of operation.
I’m very glad you’re ok and thank you for letting us know you are back. I’m glad you’re ok and you have internet again. I’m glad your life is back to normal enough to get back into your routine.
MG 😀
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@Salty ;
This platform doesn’t allow pictures to be posted. It will allow them to be uploaded for others to download. I love TAC. I really don’t like this platform. Oh well.
There are a lot of charts. There is a lot of confusion. There are enharmonic notes, chords and keys. It’s really tough to show them all.
Since I could see your chart, I don’t know what else to say. Let me know what you want to see in a chart and I’ll get a “custom” chart to you. I have made dozens, including fretboard diagram charts and circle of 5ths charts.
Just tell me what information you want to see. Keys, chords, notes, modes, comparisons? I’ve done a bunch.
MG 😀
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Hey @dfmarcus63 ;
Let me start with a very definite answer: NO. Under no circumstances should you “memorize” the notes. Here’s why: that’s not music, that’s academics. The 2 are diametrically opposed.
Yes, you need to start somewhere. Learn the natural notes on the low E string from the nut to the 12 the fret. That’s it. 13 notes.
Now, you learn positions, patterns, shapes, chord and scale intervals. That way, you start on a few notes, and learn the fretboard as a music map. Over time, you will know the specific notes if your mind works that way. It won’t happen by accident and it is completely unnecessary.
If you simply follow Tony’s instruction and have faith in the process, you will advance faster. The more you involve your mind, the more it will slow you down.
I speak from experience. The slow you down experience. There are plenty of people here who can’t touch me for understanding that can play circles around me.
Just sayin’. Your choice.
Of course, if you have a mind like mine, you don’t have a choice. The best you can do is keep it still for a little while. That’s when you play. What do you do with the over active mind the rest of the time? Become the music theory expert. Simple.
MG 😀
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Hey @SciencePete ;
Yeah, I totally get it. See my response just above this. Use the 5 patterns to go from the notes on the low E string to the octaves. And play around with them as opposed to memorizing them.
Then, if you want to go farther, see my post about these patterns:
https://tonypolecastro.com/family-forums/topic/easy-way-to-remember-5-patterns-from-fw/
If you like that, I can make the diagram available to you. In fact, I’ll put it on the thread.
MG 😀
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Trusting the process will serve you well, @dfmarcus63 . Memorize the notes on the low E string, then use the 5 patterns Tony shows in the beginning of the FW course and find all your octaves. Play them, see what kind of music you can create with them as opposed to “memorizing” them.
MG 😀
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I’m not sure what that hand symbol means, @Marty69 , but I hope this little detour into some simple fretboard math has helped you.
MG 😀
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Your experience seems to be pretty much the same as mine. I knew the pieces for years. I just never put it together. It wasn’t until I got into the intervals and realized they were the “secret” to music theory and they explained the “magic” of music that I wanted to figure out the intervals on the strings.
After I started doing it, I realized I had been shown these things a bunch, but they were never explained as the “simple” math that I have discovered.
Anyway, I’m really glad this is helpful to you.
MG 😀
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Well, that @jumpinjeff character is a great tension mentor. Oh, and he’s pretty impressive with a metronome, too. All in all, he’s got a bunch of great experience that can help others on their guitar journeys. 😄
MG 😀
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You are welcome @Kitman . I never could remember the patterns, nothing to anchor them in my memory. But the math, for me, was easy.
You only have to remember 2 things that are tied to everything in music theory.
1) The octave is 12 frets.
2) The distance between the strings is 5 frets.
The 1st thing is pretty easy and something you can use all the time. The 2nd thing has 1 exception, going to the 2nd is 4 frets. Starting from 6, the distance is 5, 5, 5, 4, 5. I remember patterns and numbers pretty easily, so for me, that’s like a “key”.
Now, let’s tie it in even easier. You must know how to tune your strings in “relative tuning”? You fret the 6 string on the 5th fret and strike the 6 and 5 string, right? And you go down the pairs like that. But the exception is you fret the 3rd string on the 4th fret to strike the 3 and 2 strings. Those are your distances.
Going up to the A string is the same as going up 5 frets on the 6 string. Going up to the B string is the same as going up 4 frets on the 3 string.
I hope this helps. If you see this, you will realize that’s it super simple and will open up the fretboard. At least, it did for me.
MG 😀
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I never did remember the patterns. I kept meaning to, but by the time I wanted to use it, I had forgotten it. I didn’t find a use for the patterns until I was exploring and used “the math” to find harmonies. It wasn’t until after I found these octaves that I remembered they had been shown to me. Everyone learns in their own way.
MG 😀
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You are so right, @Brian2501 , FW has a very high review. I has been a game changer for so many people in their guitar journey.
MG 😀