tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89545297984055646122024-03-05T15:34:15.062+08:00pulling off learning guitarsupertoddlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10760972751247133898noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954529798405564612.post-51539624405203052010-12-19T10:31:00.000+08:002010-12-19T10:31:36.351+08:00Songs & singing...<div style="text-align: center;">I've still been on the guitar and still doing lessons but... There is always a but! But I'm trying to learn 'songs' and worse than that - how to sing along to em.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Been looking at Led Zeppelin's (too difficult but I love em!):</div><div style="text-align: center;">The Rain Song & Over The Hills And Far Away</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Some I used to play bits of (badly): </div><div style="text-align: center;">Clapton's acoustic version of Layla</div><div style="text-align: center;">Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here & Welcome To The Machine</div><div style="text-align: center;">Screaming Tree's Dollar Bill</div><div style="text-align: center;">Hendrix Hey Joe & The Wind Cries Mary</div><br />
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<div><div style="text-align: center;">Trying to sing along is a real show stopper. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Literally. </i></div></div>supertoddlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10760972751247133898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954529798405564612.post-2155799705134447392010-06-09T18:57:00.010+08:002010-06-09T19:29:34.776+08:00Lesson 7: Chord Construction Made Easier (part 2)<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i>I should be able to figure out all the notes that are used in a major scale to make up a chord...</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Looking back at the first part of lesson 7 and a (major) scale as numbers </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">gives me 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 from a given the root note.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">By placing my fingers on the guitar at the root note shown in the image below</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj70DVhrhNLhZ6spNYGeVuxuZFqbjHicfFucXM7Cq-bEX7F0xitp8XIlO4otdinLGm9wQrzOrSiJYu-ngrU1pS0yPbm7otlhet8BDMatSx4h6YuZtSpeyw6rPw0LvNXbGrHaeHt1gQTNYCg/s1600/MakeChordsAnywhere.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj70DVhrhNLhZ6spNYGeVuxuZFqbjHicfFucXM7Cq-bEX7F0xitp8XIlO4otdinLGm9wQrzOrSiJYu-ngrU1pS0yPbm7otlhet8BDMatSx4h6YuZtSpeyw6rPw0LvNXbGrHaeHt1gQTNYCg/s400/MakeChordsAnywhere.png" width="400" /></a><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj70DVhrhNLhZ6spNYGeVuxuZFqbjHicfFucXM7Cq-bEX7F0xitp8XIlO4otdinLGm9wQrzOrSiJYu-ngrU1pS0yPbm7otlhet8BDMatSx4h6YuZtSpeyw6rPw0LvNXbGrHaeHt1gQTNYCg/s1600/MakeChordsAnywhere.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A table of notes in a scale is constructed from the scale pattern above where 1 is the root note starting point and then looking at the distance between the notes. 1 to 2 is one step/tone, 2 to 3 is one step/tone, 3 to 4 is half a step/tone etc.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I should be able to figure em out and draw them all up in the table below (and I'm going to force myself to do it to make sure I get it!)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr> <td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">1</span></b></td> <td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">root</span></b></td> <td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">C</span></b></span></b></span><br />
<b> </b></td> <td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">C#</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">D</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">D#</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">E</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">F</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">F#</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">G</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">G#</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A#</span></b></td><td><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">B</span></b></td></tr>
<tr> <td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">2</span></td> <td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">minor</span></td> <td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">D</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">D#</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">E</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">F</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">F#</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">G</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">G#</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A#</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">B</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">C</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">C#</span></td></tr>
<tr> <td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">3</span></td> <td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">minor</span></td> <td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">E</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">F</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">F#</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">G</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">G#</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A#</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">B</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">C</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">C#</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">D</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">D#</span></td></tr>
<tr> <td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">4</span></td> <td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">major</span></td> <td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">F</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">F#</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">G</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">G#</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A#</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">B</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">C</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">C#</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">D</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">D#</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">E</span></td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">5</span></td> <td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">major</span></td> <td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">G</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">G#</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A#</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">B</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">C</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">C#</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">D</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">D#</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">E</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">F</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">F#</span></td></tr>
<tr> <td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">6</span></td> <td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">relative minor</span></td> <td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A#</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">B</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">C</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">C#</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">D</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">D#</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">E</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">F</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">F#</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">G</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">G#</span></td></tr>
<tr> <td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">7</span></td> <td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">major (can be flattened for a blues sound)</span></td> <td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">B</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">C</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">C#</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">D</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">D#</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">E</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">F</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">F#</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">G</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">G#</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A#</span></td></tr>
<tr> <td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">8</span></td> <td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">octave</span></td> <td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">C</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">C#</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">D</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">D#</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">E</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">F</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">F#</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">G</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">G#</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A#</span></td><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">B</span></td></tr>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">HTML table ALERT :) </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">it has been a long time since I've done one of those!</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Now to make the <b>Major</b> chord you need the 1, 3, & 5th notes in that scale.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Easy so far!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">To make the <b>Major 6</b> you need the 1, 3, 5 & 6th notes in that scale.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm still following! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">To make the <b>Major 7</b> you need the 1, 3, 5, & 7th notes in that scale.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Yes, thankfully, it is that easy :)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">To make the <b>Minor</b> chord you flatten the 3rd so you need 1, 3b & 5th notes in the scale.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Minor 7</b> is 1, 3b, 5 & 7thb</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Suspended 2</b> is 1, 2 & 5th</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Suspended 4</b> is 1, 4 & 5th</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">C or D is an easy one to try that out on. Play the D and then try to add those notes in and magically you will be making those chords.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I like magic!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">To be sure there are plenty of other chords but this is a good of enough start for me in my effort to rule the world and understand the beginning of chord building on a guitar.</span><br />
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</span></div>supertoddlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10760972751247133898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954529798405564612.post-30367394497093117582010-05-15T10:38:00.001+08:002010-05-15T14:33:05.402+08:00Lesson 7: Chord Construction Made Easier (part 1)Lesson 6 was a bit too much in the deep end. So I was after something to help me understand it in a more structured way, something with numbers (which for me was going to be a simpler way).<br />
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To find the notes that make a chord:<br />
<ul><li>Put your 2nd finger on the root note. That's <b>note 1</b> in the sequence. So in the key of C, and the chord of C, you need to find the root note on the top, fat, E string. That's going to be the <b>8th fret</b> on the top E string. This puts your fingers in a good starting point for the notes that make up the chord of C.</li>
<li>The next note in the sequence is 2 frets up, where your little finger is sitting over the <b>10th fret</b>. That's going to be a D and it is <b>note 2</b> in the sequence.</li>
<li>That sets you up for the note pattern shown blow (in red crosses). The rest of the notes look like this:</li>
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<div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">X marks the spot to the pattern to the notes above.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="color: #666666; text-align: center;">Also numerically (where it makes sense for me!)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><br />
</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b>To build a (MAJ) chord you want to take the 1st, 3rd and 5th note of the (MAJ) scale.</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">So in C you want 1 - C, 3 - E & 5 - G.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">If you now finger a C chord down at the zero fret you will see that those are the 3 notes that make up a 'C'.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Next time will go into how other notes modify a MAJ chord.</div>supertoddlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10760972751247133898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954529798405564612.post-19850502939625034262010-04-26T12:39:00.009+08:002010-05-15T09:43:40.187+08:00Lesson 6: Chord Construction<div style="text-align: center;">This lesson was my first step into looking at how guitar chords are put toegher.</div><div style="color: #666666; text-align: center;">It was lots of fun 'cause strangely enough it was making some sense!</div><br />
Trying to make some sense of my notes from that lesson, one week later is, proving to be more difficult... OK so diving in without a safety net - here goes!<br />
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<b>Short Story: </b><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">Major chords: constructed from 3 notes (1st, 3rd, 5th) in the scale.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Minor chords: constructed from 3 notes (1st, flattened 3rd, 5th) in the scale.<b><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></b><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Long Story:</span></b> </div></div><div style="text-align: center;">Major chords are made up of <b>3 main notes</b>, the <b>1st, 3rd and 5th </b>note in the scale.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">In the C Major scale: </div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>1 = C</b></div><div style="text-align: center;">2 = D</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>3 = E</b></div><div style="text-align: center;">4 = F</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>5 = G</b></div><div style="text-align: center;">6 = A</div><div style="text-align: center;">7 = B</div><i><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">In the Cminor from the Major scale: </div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>1 = C</b></div><div style="text-align: center;">2 = D</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>flattened 3 = Eb</b></div><div style="text-align: center;">4 = F</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>5 = G</b></div><div style="text-align: center;">6 = A</div><div style="text-align: center;">7 = B</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Grokking that? </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Just remember that Major is 1,3,5 notes from the scale. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">To make a Minor from a Major chord you just flatten the 3rd note in the scale.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666;">More next time in part 2 of chord making.</span></div>supertoddlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10760972751247133898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954529798405564612.post-23224465510878079522010-04-26T10:37:00.007+08:002010-04-29T20:10:55.576+08:00Lesson 5: Something showing a scale in use<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Intro to 'Since I've been loving you' - Led Zeppelin</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Learning WTF a scale is (a group of notes that sound the business together) and how it is put together is the type of ground work I was after from a guitar teacher. How to make music is something else again :)</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">So my guitar geezer told me to look at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Since_I%27ve_Been_Loving_You">Since I've Been Loving You</a> </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">by Jimmy Page. It has been called one of the best guitar solos of all time and looking at the intro you can see it sits in pattern, in a scale.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bkjv9SscotY">You can hear it here on YouTube</a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">My very rough draw up of the intro tab with no timing shown is:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcbiIvlgNAt3SJ3F4mGpEFwiWHVQOFfA9fSJDU8JacHHpWu4Ya3EgxmjLXp_Vr9CmoV6oiJifa3vXm25iD7tCqzu7d8GdKyjbWftnNumkE6VrZOCqI83cKImMP1KSX1GrA8W79lbKf8-tX/s1600/SinceI.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcbiIvlgNAt3SJ3F4mGpEFwiWHVQOFfA9fSJDU8JacHHpWu4Ya3EgxmjLXp_Vr9CmoV6oiJifa3vXm25iD7tCqzu7d8GdKyjbWftnNumkE6VrZOCqI83cKImMP1KSX1GrA8W79lbKf8-tX/s400/SinceI.png" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><div style="color: #666666;">(right mouse and open image in another window to go large)</div><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Looking at those notes and based on the FECK all I know about scales so far I can kind of tell that that is in either C Minor or D#(Eb) Major.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Should be easy to tell 'cause it is beginning with your index finger on the 8th fret C note (or somewhere around there!) and because you are there with your index finger you are in a Minor. So C Minor.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Looking at where your little pinkie finger is naturally positioned it will be in the D#(Eb) [D sharp / E flat] note. So you could also say you are in D# Major (and the C is the relative minor).</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: center;">I'm pretty sure Mr Page (being the walk on water guitar god he is) moves in and out of scales and patterns and does what ever the fark he wants when he wants without giving a flying shite about them at all </div><div style="color: #666666; text-align: center;"><b>but it is still nice to know that all of those notes in the intro to 'Since I've been Loving You' are BANG on in the beginners scale I've been learning</b>.</div></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #666666;">Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #666666;">Haaaaaaa</span></b></div>supertoddlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10760972751247133898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954529798405564612.post-77873040727674675822010-04-26T09:39:00.005+08:002010-04-29T20:14:44.429+08:00Lesson 4: Transitions<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Back to the C major scale and soloing over it. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> Looking at the scale below </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">(which I've duplicated from the most excellent '<a href="http://www.all-guitar-chords.com/guitar_scales.php?scch=C&scchnam=Major&get2=Get&t=0&choice=1">all scale looking thing</a>' at <b>all-guitar-chords.com </b>and cut up into patterns below)</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9susMU9DpFVd3H0woKJl6l1_K56WxQJZtSSjmO4uzu-Jd2GEOU5wIIQrgcuQi1lj3UdUtCoUIiR_G7jirZlZWqc8DJVehCMk4oOj0oqVUcWdOoNfKJTy0Nv58H8gNwKDp1UbnFrEbwWoe/s1600/Wip1_1600_3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">all-guitar-chords.com <img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9susMU9DpFVd3H0woKJl6l1_K56WxQJZtSSjmO4uzu-Jd2GEOU5wIIQrgcuQi1lj3UdUtCoUIiR_G7jirZlZWqc8DJVehCMk4oOj0oqVUcWdOoNfKJTy0Nv58H8gNwKDp1UbnFrEbwWoe/s640/Wip1_1600_3.png" width="640" /></a><span style="color: #666666;">(right mouse and open image in another window to go LARGE) </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">If you are on the 5th fret and moving up and down in notes in Pattern 5 and you want to get up to the 12th fret and Pattern 3 you can just 'leap' up in there in a single bound like super'fecken'man or you could play other notes on the way up there.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">A nice way I was shown to <b>transition</b> between these patterns was to hold 2 notes on the bottom (thinnest) 2 strings and play them at the same time (or close to the same time) and then play 2 more just up in the scale and repeat (with any variation you want) until you get up, or down, to where you want to be next.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">You can see that sometimes your 2nd note <b>is 2 frets up</b>, not 1 - as you are trying to </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">play notes that stay in the C major scale and sound 'nice' together.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">I'll 'YouTube' this one at some point. </div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">It will take about 10 seconds of video to explain.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>supertoddlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10760972751247133898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954529798405564612.post-50764589708808564732010-04-25T08:47:00.002+08:002010-04-25T08:55:12.334+08:00Lesson 4: (prequel) It is OK to suck<div style="text-align: center;">After listening to Jimmy Page and Billy Gibbons play guitar all weekend (and trying to learn some of it) I remember a HUGE penny dropping leap forward in learning to play Chess that helps me learn Guitar. </div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">Its OK to be shite at it and total failure is as good as success.</div><div style="text-align: center;">You need to LOVE being shite at it.</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">Embrace the crapness, the failure, the bung notes, the lack of understanding </div><div style="text-align: center;">and LOVE it.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Wallow like a pig in shite in the failures.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>And learn from it.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
I wanted this blog to be about my lack of musical understanding (my diminished guitar reality) and my lessons to improve that.<br />
<b>Bring on the failures</b>!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div>supertoddlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10760972751247133898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954529798405564612.post-80511749601245299222010-04-23T21:54:00.004+08:002010-04-23T22:32:35.043+08:00Lesson 3: (part 2) Tango - fark the tango!<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b></b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">The geezer was trying to get me to learn a Tango using E, A minor and D minor with plently of muted strings and slaps and stuff. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Its too hard and I can't play it. So after a few seconds thought on this one I say<b> </b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="color: #444444;">Fark the Fecken Tango!</b></span></i> </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">So I did a quick You Tube search for something a bit more up my alley and found 'little miss can't be wrong' teaching hill billy Blues.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">I was really after something bluesy with string damping to practice ('cause I'm rubbish at holding a rhythm with additional right hand damping or left hand string muting going on). </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">I've been practicing something along the lines of this. I'll probably add, for amusement value only :) , some YouTube links of me trying to play this later this weekend. Gulp..</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666;">If I ever get any good at the Tango rhythm I'll do a post on it - but don't hold your breath..</span></div></div>supertoddlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10760972751247133898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954529798405564612.post-11657438235380511182010-04-23T19:09:00.009+08:002010-04-23T19:23:33.317+08:00Lesson 3: (part 1) More Cmajor / Aminor scale<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">So I went back to the Cmaj scale</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">and look at it over the entire fretboard</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So to move to D(major) would mean moving your little finger to the D note on the 10th fret (thinnest / bottom string) and putting your index finger on the B(minor) on the 7th fret (thinnest / bottom string). That is where you would then start 'pattern 1'.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A move to play in G(minor) means putting your index finger on the G note on the 3rd fret (thinnest / bottom string) and putting your little finger on the A sharp (major) on the 6th fret (thinnest / bottom string) and that is where you would then start 'pattern 1'.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.guitarists.net/scales/">To see scales on the fretboard try Guitarist.Net/Scales</a></div><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">After 3 lessons on this it was starting make some sense and we were playing cords in Aminor and I was attempting to play in those notes above over the entire fretboard - and I was pretty <b><i style="color: #666666;">crappola</i></b> at it :)</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">The tango 'beat' is a tricky one & I still can't play it... <b>grrrrrrrrrrr</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">More on that one next time.</div></div>supertoddlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10760972751247133898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954529798405564612.post-20487526189245727322010-04-22T06:43:00.015+08:002010-04-26T12:15:19.654+08:00Lesson 2: Rhythm (my lack of it) in C<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Wiki defines Rhythm as "any measured flow or movement, symmetry" and mine SUX.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So the Geezer was getting me to sit in 3 cords that can be used to play under a lead in the Cmaj scale from the 'notes' <a href="http://thepulloff.blogspot.com/2010/04/lesson-1-scales-part-1.html">shown in lesson one</a>.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The cord progression was: Amin7, Dmin7, Emin7</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Amin7 & Dmin7 played from the bar cord at the 5th fret and the Emin7 played from the the bar cord at the 7th fret.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(<b>To make it easier then the bar cords below you could just play Amin, Dmin, Emin, with or without the 7ths, at the zero fret</b>).</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">7ths were used for 'colour' and we were also changing, <i>without losing the Rhythm</i><i> I was told!, </i>to the non barred versions at the zero fret.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">For additional variation dropping into something that looked like this:</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> Yes that IS supposed to be your index finger on the 8th fret! So it was like and Emin at the 7th fret with a root C added?</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b>Looks weird sounds good!</b> </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">That cord shape was played at the 7th, 0 and 12th frets.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">At the end of the lesson we were playing the Amin based cords above and doing some really rough Cmaj soloing over those. Well he wasn't rough but I really was...</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Guessing Amin based cords sound 'good' against Cmaj scale notes as Amin is the relative min to that scale.<br />
Remember that putting your little finger on on the 'C' on the 8th fret of the top 'E' string is the note 'C' and since it is your little finger that sets you up for Cmaj and automatically your index finger will be on the relative minor - which in this case is A(min). That sets you up for the 'lead' in Cmaj.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>supertoddlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10760972751247133898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954529798405564612.post-51367610663802653432010-04-18T15:54:00.013+08:002010-04-19T07:37:06.331+08:00Lesson 1: Scales (part 2)<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Part of the first hour in me getting <a href="http://thepulloff.blogspot.com/2010/04/lesson-1-scales-part-1.html">guitar lesson 1</a> covered looking at other parts of the C scale on the fretboard & scales in other keys.<br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">At the end of this lesson I had some understanding on how to put a very basic solo in a specific key together and 'keys' in general had lost most of their 'terror' for me <b style="color: #999999;">:)</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Guitar geezer called the patterns below the '2nd position' <span style="color: #666666;">but I've also seen it listed as 'Pattern 3' and 'Pattern 3 plus one octave </span>* <span style="color: #666666;">' </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Before looking at the 2 images, sketched below, remember they are exactly the same shape/pattern but the second one is one octave (12 frets) higher up the fretboard and you are 'barring' (playing every note) on the 12th fret to make it the same pattern as you play on the ZERO fret (open strings).</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Definitely worth spending time eye balling those until you 'see' they are exactly the same - just 12 frets up the neck / one octave higher.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Looking at that pattern (and the fretboard on your guitar) and working out what each note is in those shapes and the shape from the previous post, was for me, worth the time and effort. It helped me grok it a little deeper and it dawned on me that nothing is flat or sharp in C <span style="color: #666666;">(I'm no music dude remember!)</span>. I'm guessing that is obvious to anybody who knows anything about music <span style="color: #666666;">- but that's not me :)</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>A little Googling and it becomes clearer especially when viewed from middle C on a piano.</i></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>You can now solo!</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So now you have, starting from your little finger on the 'C' on the 8th fret of the top 'E' string a simple starting point for a basic solo in the C major scale. That starting position is a 'root' note in the C major scale. You can pick notes out of the 2 patterns listed so far (the zero fret + 12th fret version and the 5th fret pattern from the last post) and away you go.<br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">There are a couple of other patterns and notes that can be used to join up those 2 basic patterns giving you places to go to between those shapes. Geezer said don't worry about them for now "They are not so important"; <span style="color: #666666;">but I printed em out and had a look at them anyway :)</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Now what you need is somebody playing some cords in C major and you can begin your path to world domination :)</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;">* <span style="color: #666666;">(</span>an octave from a note on your guitar is from any starting position plus 12 frets higher, or lower I guess, and the easy one to see/hear is by playing any open string and then playing the same string on the 12th fret).</div><br />
Once again its not black magic (I'm missing the magic now guitar is starting to make some sense!) and if you look at your single fat 'E' string from the open string (fret 0) to the 12th fret you are playing all the notes between the two 'E's: E, F, G, A, B, C, D, E).<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I've drawn up part of the C maj scale below with the most excellent <a href="http://www.balsamiq.com/">balsamiq</a> ui designer:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="color: #666666; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>thin string on the top of the image</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: small;"><i>fattest string on the bottom of the image</i></span></div><br />
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<b>Short Story:</b><br />
<span style="color: #444444;">Looking at image above </span><br />
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<ol><li>Little pinkie finger finds the <b>maj</b> note. For 'C' place little finger on the 8th fret, thinnest string, and you will be on C. You are now in 'C' maj.<br />
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<li>Index finger (first finger) finds the relative minor. It is 'always' 4 frets back from the maj. Place your index finger on the 5th fret thinnest string. Your index finger is now on the 'relative' minor, in this case 'A', to where your little pinkie finger is. </li>
<li>Pick each note in that pattern above, in the fret position above, and you should hear some '<b>do re mi fa so la ti</b>' sounds emerging.</li>
<li>Enjoy!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><br />
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<b>Longer Story:</b><br />
You can play that pattern of notes anywhere on the fretboard BUT there is a simple 'trick' to making it easy to find out where you <b>should</b> be playing it for the 'key' (some note grouping from a 'root' starting note / cord) you want to be 'in' - where thankfully & very magically stuff sounds 'nice' together.<br />
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Lets call it a black magic get your mojo working trick!<br />
To play in 'C' major you put your <b>little 'pinkie' finger</b> on the 'C' note (in the image above) and you are ready to roll! <i><b>Easy :)</b></i><br />
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In this case, in the picture above, the 8th fret on the top (thinnest) E string is the note 'C' (when your guitar is in tune and you are using the standard tuning).<br />
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For the next piece of guitar black magic you take your <b>first finger (index finger) </b>and put in on the 5th fret on the top (thinnest) E string.<br />
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That magically gives you the 'relative minor' to the note your 'pinkie' finger is on.<br />
<i>Don't worry too much about what a maj / min is right now (I'm not). </i><br />
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So in this case since your little finger, on the 8th fret, is on C maj your index finger, 4 frets back on the 5th fret is going to be on A - which is the relative minor to C maj.<br />
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<div style="color: #666666;"><i><b>I wish I knew that years ago! <span style="color: #666666;">Litte finger on the maj then index finger will auto-magically be on the relative minor.</span></b></i></div><br />
Now from there you move up and down the fret board into other 'groupings' of notes (that have different shapes then the picture above) that also sound 'nice' when played/picked/bashed over somebody else strumming cords in the key of 'C' maj (or it's relative 'A' minor). The geezer called the grouping in the image above 'position one' but I've also seen it called 'pattern six' else where.<br />
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<a href="http://thepulloff.blogspot.com/2010/04/lesson-1-scales-part-2.html">Next part of lesson 1 (coming later)</a> was other patterns of notes that make up a C guitar scale and where to play them to stay in 'C'. <br />
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<div style="color: #666666; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Phew. I'm knackered after writing all that. </i></span></div><div style="color: #666666; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Time to stop writing and play :)</i></span></div>supertoddlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10760972751247133898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954529798405564612.post-79110785077706264502010-04-18T10:24:00.002+08:002010-04-28T20:08:01.641+08:00Welcome to a guitar trip for the musically retarded<div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Started guitar lessons Christmas 2010. I've been self abusing a fretbaord (aka self 'taught') for a few years but getting no where fast.<br />
Getting a pro on the job seemed like a step in the right direction. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
Rather than keep paper notes from the lesson sessions I'm going to post em here.<br />
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Share the pain right?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
How hard can hitting 6 strings be...<br />
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'PullingOff'<br />
It is actually a guitar term... :P</div><br />
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</div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Legal stuff: </span></div><ul style="color: #444444; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: x-small;">I'm musically retarded and this is going to be <i>my</i> take on the guitar; at the very least that is going to be full of holes, errors and lots of bad timing.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;">Also note I love love love guitars and pity the fools who don't play em. </span></li>
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