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Post subject: Some time well spent
Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 6:59 am
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I've been concentrating on scales and learning the fretboard. I must say that knowing how to get any note on the fretboard is very confidence inspiring. It's a time consuming process, and it will be some time before I am truly facile with it, but so far the progress has given me a lot of confidence.

The process I'm using is a mixture of the following:
1) Rote learning
2) Playing a favorite ditty, rearranged so I can play it in two different keys on each string (i.e., the whole tune is played entirely on one string. It's played twice, once with the low note arrangement and once with the high note arrangement.)
3) Telling myself, for example, to pay all the A's on the fretboard. Doing that repeatedly in different orders.


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Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 7:17 am
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How is your chord knowledge? A good practice is to see how many positions and inversions you can play each chord in. By doing that you'll find "notes" that will work with different chord patterns as well. :wink:

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Post subject: on your way
Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 8:41 am
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Rudy you are on your way Bro. after you learn notes & scales well enough do the same things with cords, there are so many ways to play a cord, you'll be crayzer then a bed bug in a mattress factory.

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Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 9:33 am
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Thanks for the encouragement. My chord knowledge is weak, but strengthening. The trouble is that I can do so much, and am currently making scales and fretboard my priorities. I still play some songs, and for chord knowledge I play the song, and also the rhythm (separately, of course) I play the chord progressions to the songs I like. It's very challenging to make those quick hand changes. I've got a couple of good books on it. I'll concentrate on chords after I am comfortable with current priorities.


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