Bill_Brown
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Hi @jorgemac ,
The Allman Brothers Band covers “Stormy Monday”, originally by T-Bone Walker, on their Live At The Fillmore East album. This song was also covered by Bobby “Blue” Bland (circa 1960) as well. Over all, the Allman Brothers is my favorite rendition. Blind Willie McTell wrote and recorded “Statesboro Blues” and was also covered by Taj Mahal (1968). Elmore James wrote and recorded “Done Somebody Wrong”, all of which are covered by the Allman Brothers on that Live At The Fillmore East album.
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Hi @BrandonK , I’m glad to see that you’re going through the FW course, IMHO, one of the best gems here at TAC. So the “patterns” that Tony is teaching are ways to find the “same note” on other strings. The only problem I have with the way he’s teaching this is that it involves too much memorization – skip two frets and go down two strings, or is it go down 3 strings and skip 3 frets – I can’t remember all that and no wonder you’re asking for help. Now don’t get me wrong, this is an important and helpful concept to learn (and why Tony is teaching it) because it’s a foundational way to move around the fretboard. It’s a concept that I struggled to learn (with the way Tony goes about teaching it) until another TAC member showed me a different approach. When I saw this “different approach”, the lightbulbs went on and everything about this concept became much easier to execute. I’ll try my best to explain it – yes there is memorization, but not near the amount that Tony is teaching.
I’ll start with these letters – B A G E D. These letters are the string names on the guitar. Treat them like the musical alphabet, you can move forward or backward from any starting point on any string. The way they’re laid out (BAGED) is the way to find the next nearest same note (moving forward) going from the nut to the body of the guitar. Remember, you can start at any string and move backward as well. But that isn’t everything needed to find the next “same note”. We need to know how many frets to skip between strings, so now come the numbers – 1 1 2 1 2. Now I’m going to consolidate the letters and numbers which will yield B1A1G2E1D2B. For example, let’s start on the B string 1st fret (C note). To find the next nearest C note we will skip 1 fret (which will put us at the 3rd fret) and go to the A string, giving us the C note at the A string 3rd fret. From there, we’ll skip 1 fret and go to the G string, which will give us the C note on the G string 5th fret. From there, we’ll skip 2 frets and go to the E string (either loE or hiE), giving us the C note on either E string 8th fret. From there, we skip 1 fret and go to the D string, giving us the C note on the D string 10th fret. To complete the cycle, we skip 2 frets and go back to the B string, giving us the C note on the B string 13th fret.
To me, this approach is much easier and more clear than how Tony is teaching this concept. I hope you (and anyone else reading this) find the same clarity as I did with this approach for this foundational concept.
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Hi @LRB3 and welcome to TAC. Between open chords, barre chords, triads, “slash” chords, etc., there are more ways to play the same chord than you could imagine. And not just in one location on the fretboard, but all over – I’m not even considering alternate tunings, just standard tuning. Anyways, I want to let you know about a fantastic (FREE) web site that I found that can show you all these things and much more. Take a look, make sure you bookmark it, because you’ll want to go back to it often.
oolimo.com
Guitar chord compendium. Learn guitar chords with interactive chord diagrams, chord finder, chord analyzer (chord namer), theory, quizzes. Learn common chord types and chord progressions in pop/rock/jazz.
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That was very nicely played @lecassandra !
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Very nicely played @Marty75 ! I really enjoyed listening. Wishing you the joys of a very merry Christmas and a happy and healthy New Year my friend.
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Great rendition @albert_d , loved the “effects” too!
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Hello @ShelleyC63 and welcome to TAC. If you log-in (and log-out) every day, you’ll be able to keep your “day streak” going. That’s how I do it and my current streak is at 1731 – I’ve just started my 6th year here at TAC and I really enjoy the camaraderie with this Community.
I hope that you’ll find that out for your self, here, as your guitar journey grows!
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Hi @grizzdog55gmail-com and welcome to TAC. The answer is quite simple – you need to get more “arch” in your fretting hand fingers. However, the methods to do that are not so simple to explain. Might I suggest that you experiment – move your palm around the neck (in and out) – maybe the palm doesn’t even touch the neck – use your thumb to help grip the neck. Make sure your fingernails are trimmed so that only your finger tips are touching the strings. I’m sure other TAC members will chime in with their suggestions.
Good luck and don’t give up!
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Hi @Ang , I agree that the regular price is high. However, in the past, Tony has been known to put the course on sale for about $150 US. It has happened in the spring and I’ve also seen it happen in the fall, but you have to look regularly for it because it’s not advertised. You have to look on the “TAC Help Center” page at the bottom – if you see “Fretboard Wizard” there, then click on it, because that means it’s on sale.
Best of luck!
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Another fantastic rendition @KevinZ ! I really enjoyed listening and watching you use your fingers to play guitar – you did it so nicely. As I told you before, I really don’t know much about Alan Jackson other than “Mercury Blues”, but your work is getting me to pay closer attention. Keep up the great work my friend!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsjzV8sOdXU&list=RDXsjzV8sOdXU&start_radio=1
I thought you might like this!
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@the-old-coach , great to hear from you my friend! Hope all is going well for you (and yours) out there on the Left Coast (LOL). I think it was the 2nd class that Mike taught – the summer you did a lot of traveling – when he introduced the approach of C(B) A G E D. I believe he laid it out that way because the word CAGED was easy to remember, but in actuality it’s BAGED that’s the order of strings. The number of frets to “SKIP” between strings (1 1 2 1 2) was a way to help complete the concept.
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Hi @BarbaraM , thank you for your feedback. Allow me to explain that 1 1 2 1 2 are the number of frets to “SKIP”, or in other words, the number of frets “in-between” notes on the strings B A G E D B. In the example you posted, you’re not “skipping” the number of frets, you’re traveling that number of frets, that’s why you’re coming up short (by one fret) of the C note. If you want to count or travel the number of frets between notes, just add 1 to each number above, yielding 2 2 3 2 3. When this approach was presented to me, I was taught to “skip”. But the way you’re doing it (“traveling” or counting the number of frets between strings to the next note) works just as well, but the numbers then are 2 2 3 2 3.
Hope this explanation clears any confusion, have fun.
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Hi @BrandonK , yes I would be happy to show you. But I do believe that you should pick up your guitar and go through the example I gave so you can get a “feel” for it and actually see the “patterns” on your own guitar.
The most important thing to memorize is B A G E D (very similar to the word CAGED). Once you have that down, then you need to keep in mind that these letters (BAGED) work like the musical alphabet. If we start on the A string (any fret), the next closest same note will be on the G string (moving forward toward the guitar body) or on the B string (moving backward toward the nut). Likewise, if we start on the E string, any fret, (either hiE or loE – it doesn’t matter which), the next nearest same note will be on the D string (moving forward) or on the G string (moving backward).
The second most important thing to remember is 1 1 2 1 2. This sequence of numbers are the number of frets to skip between the letters BAGED. So between the B & A strings, you skip 1 fret, whichever way you’re moving, from the A string to the B string or visa verse. If we want to move between the G & E strings, you skip 2 frets, whichever way you’re moving.
I find it easier (for me) to remember the letters (BAGED) and numbers (11212) separately. But by combining them (B1A1G2E1D2B), you get a better picture of how this approach works, with the string names and number of frets to skip between those strings.
I think with a little effort, you can do this on your own. But I can do a zoom call if you need to.
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Thank you @jorgemac for giving more explicit instructions (in my mind) – much better than I could have given.