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MC5C 01-08-2017 06:24 AM

A new website on learning guitar
 
A friend of mine is starting to publish some of her PhD work on learning jazz guitar on a new web page, released today. I thought some of you might like to follow it, although it's early days yet.

https://thescientificguitarist.wordpress.com/

You can sign up to be part of her research on-line in the "current studies" tab. She is a great jazz guitarist, a composer, a pure improvizationist, and is starting her doctorate at Dalhousie University. I suspect that this blog will be a large part of her thesis development, which is in the area of "music cognition", or how we think about music and playing the guitar.

MC5C 01-16-2017 04:09 PM

Another blog update, getting quite good reviews actually, among professional guitarists (I follow her on face book too, so I see all sorts of comments). Enjoy!

https://thescientificguitarist.wordp...the-fretboard/

ADG 01-30-2017 09:49 PM

This could be very interesting. The "embodied" graphic is the most useful I have seen for translating notation to the fretboard. Her commentary is insightful.

geetaruke 01-30-2017 09:52 PM

Thanks for sharing.

KarlK 02-04-2017 11:28 AM

Thanks so much for pointing this out.

I would participate in her study in a second, but I can't read music, at least with any facility.

Meanwhile, I thought this particular passage was tremendously insightful:

Quote:

An experienced player can look at a chord chart or scale pattern and play it easily – why? Because they are not playing the chart – they are responding to an internal representation – an embodied motor pattern, honed over years, of what the chart represents. But to a novice, who has not developed this embodiment – the visual diagram offers little in the way of motor or kinaesthetic information. This information may be provided by a teacher during a lesson, but if the teacher does not offer it – or if the student is learning alone from a method book (as is common – Degner & Lehmann, 2003; Berard, 1998) – then a student may become frustrated.
Yep, that about sums it up for me.

This issue also arises for me when I watch an artist play something on youtube that I think I can replicate, but when I try to do it, my mind and my fingers/hands do not mesh. Unless you have the FEEL and the motor discipline, you are going to be "off."


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