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See, asking questions is a great thing for all of us, @Mrfredsporty . I appreciated the information and experience you shared with us @jumpinjeff .
MG 😀
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Great job, @Kitman . I have literally only played against a backing track a hand full of times. I don’t know why I don’t get into it. But it sure is cool to listen to someone else do it. I thought you made really good use of the octave scale Tony gave us and it sounded really good. I especially liked the one where you missed one of the notes. Try figuring out what you hit and do that every 10th one or something like that. It sounded really bluesy.
MG 😀
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Well, there’s another to add to the list. I used to have a hard time finding music I wanted to listen to. Now, I don’t have time to listen to it all. Thanks for adding this great channel. Looks like it’s been around a long time.
MG 😀
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Yes, I agree, @Mrfredsporty .
First, thanks for posting. Second, don’t think you have or are doing anything wrong. There is no right or wrong on our guitar journey except to stop. Even having fun can diminish for a while or at least become minor. (See what I did there? 😅 )
Anyway, our guitar journey is long and has many twists and turns. One thing that happened for me and it sounds like it is happening for you, I simply didn’t know enough about the big wide world of guitar music to really know what I wanted. So getting immersed was one way for me to understand what my options were so I could figure out what I wanted to focus on.
Keep posting. It’s great to follow someone else’s journey.
MG 😀
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It’s cool that you recorded this @Kitman , that way you can remember what you came up with, especially the “wrong” note. 😁
MG 😀
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You and me both, @Mrfredsporty . In fact, I’m still getting my mind blown by the length and breadth and width. Like the new YouTube channel you just turned me onto, Wood Songs. Wow. So much, so much. And every one has a little nugget of realization for me. Oh. look what I could do, or what sound can be made, or picking pattern, strumming pattern, chord shape, or no chord shape but implied chord shape by finger picking the right notes. There’s just so much. It seems like the more I know the more I am able to learn from watching these videos. At first, so much just went over my head. Anyway, thanks again.
MG 😀
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Oh, that’s disappointing, @Mrfredsporty . I thought they named the MGs after me. 🤣
Morris Garages. That is interesting and cool. Yeah, I always liked MGs because those are my initials. I guess that was easy to figure out.
MG 😀
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Yeah, but it’s on going. The latest one is from 27th of June, 22. The music is all over the board. Not one single style. In fact, not simply all over the board, but quite literally from all over the world. Again, thanks for sharing.
MG 😀
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All I was trying to demonstrate was there is a very good reason to always list the keys, chords, notes, whatever, in order. There is an order, and it’s not what we learned in english class. This is music. The order is not A, B, C, D, E, F, G; rather it’s F, C, G, D, A, E, B. That’s all. It’s really important to always see them in that order and burn that, not the other, into our brain.
All I did was list the keys in order. It’s just like the other list, but in a different order. By seeing any key you want laid out, you can see which ones are major and which one are minor. But I added the the M, m, m, M, M, m, dim, to the top of the list.
MG 😀
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Yep, you sound just like me, @Mrfredsporty . It’s important to feel free to follow the direction you chose to go. Don’t let yourself be pressed into any style or technique because it is common or popular. The other side of the coin, our guitar journey is long and we reach plateaus. We no longer have to get into ruts, but plateaus, yeah. So keep an open mind. You may choose to explore strumming in the future. But for now, you don’t have to.
MG 😀
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See, @Cadgirl , that’s why I’m going to do my Music Theory for the Beginning video series. That list is misleading and a crutch. If presented properly, it becomes easy to remember. This is the “proper” order of the major scales. This order, F, C, G, D, A, E, B, is the same for the modes as well as the accidentals. There are different acronyms, but once you see how to apply the acronym, you don’t need charts or circle of fifths. Everything is in the same order, always.
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Yeah, login and do the lesson in your head. See, now that’s a routine. Everyday, guitar is in your head. It’s taken a while, but I’m doing better than I have since I joined TAC. Being regular that is. That’s great @Marty69 .
And yes, it shows, How could it not? Tony didn’t lie to us. If we will do it, put some effort in every day and have fun, that’s it, no other requirements, then we would see improvement. You Got This! 😄
MG 😀
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That lost day shouldn’t count, @Marty69 . That wasn’t your fault. That’s pretty impressive. You signed in every single day for over 2 years. Way to go.
MG 😀
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One thing that took me awhile to realize, @Cadgirl , about Tony’s titles for the Friday lessons.
B Minor does not mean B minor. It means the key of B, Minor chords. Or, the Minor chords in the key of B. It can be confusing. Ok, I just went back to the lessons and it seems this difficult to understand labeling system has changed. Now it actually says “Major Chords in the Key of B” and “Minor Chords in the Key of B”.
So, this weeks key is not B minor, but B major. They are simply the minor chords from the key of B major. By the way, technically, there’s no such thing as the key of B minor. In fact, technically, there’s no such thing as the key of B major. What’s that mean? It means they never gave a name to the keys, they simply used the major mode as the name of the key. There is only one key, the key of “5 sharps”. B major, C# Dorian, D# Phrygian, E Lydian, F# Mixolydian, G# Aeolian, and A# Locrian, are all in the same key. So if someone says “the key of C major” and “the key of A minor”, those are 2 names for the same key. They are not 2 keys, they are 2 names and one key. The key is “no flats or sharps”.
Now, there is a very good reason they called the key by the Ionian, or Major, mode. And there is a very philosophical reason for calling a key by the minor, or Aeolian, mode, and it’s literally imaginary. The argument is based on something that doesn’t exist in nature, ever. It is only theoretical. But in the end, it doesn’t matter as long as we recognize what the key is and what is a name. The “key of” is a set of 7 notes. The key of “C major” is a name that refers to a set of 7 notes.
This is one of the chief things that causes so much misunderstanding and controversy. Even the music schools will mislead on this topic. But if you push them, then they have to admit the truth. There are only 12 keys. There are 15 key signitures. 3 of the keys have to names, enharmonic names. Every note in the key of Db is exactly the same as every note in the key of C#, and every note name is enharmonic. “Do the math”. That is, write out the key.
Db, Eb, F, Gb, Ab, Bb, C, Db.
C#, D#, E#, F#, G#, A#, B#, C#.
Notice that “E#” is actually F, and “B#” is actually C.
Now, you can do the same for F# and Gb; then do B and C#. It’s instructive to go through these exercises.
Before I quit, let me give one more example. The “key of B” and “the key of B minor”. The 7 notes of B are B, C#, D#, E, F#, G#, A#, B. The 7 notes of B minor are (starting on the 6th degree) B, C#, D, E, F#, G, A, B. So the formula is the same, we simple started on a different degree. Major: (1) whole, (2) whole, (3) half, (4) whole, (5) whole (6) whole, (7) half (1). Minor: (6) whole, (7) half (1) whole, (2) whole, (3) half, (4) whole, (5) whole, (6). Notice that “whole” and “half” are actually spaces between the notes. That’s why I included the numbers representing the notes. There is a space of 2 half steps, or 2 frets between the 1 note and the 2 note. Etc.
MG 😀
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