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04-01-2017, 02:51 PM
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It's making sense...the fretboard, I mean
Finally, after what seems like forever, I am getting to know my way around the fretboard. Many thanks to tbeltrans for helping me with this. I've posted here before (more than once) about how the fretboard seemed to me to be a random scramble of letters (notes). I knew there were patterns, but I couldn't identify them, let alone understad how to use them as way-finders. Well, now I can find any chord on the fretboard. I don't know where the most useful ones are "by heart" yet, but that will come. I also understand how some versions of a chord just aren't very practical (awkward fingering, etc.), but the point is that I can find them. WaHoo!
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04-01-2017, 04:08 PM
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Here's a interesting website you may enjoy. I play around with the E pentatonic scales.
http://www.freeguitarsource.com/Blue...ues_Scale.html
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04-01-2017, 06:08 PM
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Stay with it. Like it or not you will become a victim of learning as I did.
I was a very late bloomer where fretboard knowledge was concerned because I could not fathom the value of it. I had it down 2nd nature by ear and no one was going to be able to take that away or task me on it. To know that the high E string 1st fret was the F note was meaningless information to this soloist. And... It still is. But, I can name the notes now and it was through learning the chord shapes that made learning notes the easiest method for me, though I was not consciously trying to learn them. It just sort of came from years of placing the chords that the notes comprising them kinda crept into my head. I guess it became harder not to learn them after a while despite my desire to keep some artistic mystery going in my life.
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04-02-2017, 01:33 AM
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That's been happening for me too. It will probably sound stupid, but I was amazed to realize that I could form a chord, D shape is a good one, and then move it up by frets according to intervals, and come up with chords that fit the key, in the same D shape. D, whole step (2frets) up to E, whole step to F#,half step (1 fret) to G, whole step to A, whole step to B.
So then I can play a DGA (I IV V), song, even add the II or Vi and just flatten the 3rd to make them E minor or B minor. The different voicings give the song an entirely different feel or mood. The possibilities are endless!
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04-02-2017, 08:25 AM
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Quote:
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