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  • 25-05-2006 4:13pm
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    Antisocialiser
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    :confused: alrite lads just lookin for a bit of advice here. Ive been playin for about 4 years without really learning any scales so when i play guitar i just make up stuff :P my problem is i want to be able to express myself on the guitar but i cant if i dont know what it sounds like when i fret a certain note. So i was just wondering is there anyway to play like that - you know by knowing what each note is going to sound like or is that not going to happen? hope i explained myself, maybe i would be better learning scales and such? any advice is welcomed thanks
    mick


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    Thomas from Presence
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    Learning scales off by rote is not the way but learning how scales and chords interact in the glorious coherent web of harmony helps. Learn key theory, CAGED and your major scales then check out how they are deployed in different musics.

    Try to train your ear by learning off intervallic distances (the differences between two notes) like this.

    Play an open E string then play the 1st fret of same string. This is called a minor 2nd (b2 if yer a yank). See how it sounds like the Jaws theme when you hop between the two notes? From now on when you hear two notes that are like Jaws think "minor 2nd". Work through all the possibilities in an octave. The next one is called a major 2nd (open E then 2nd fret of same string). Think of a famous air that has that movement such as the first two notes of Amhrán na bhFiann and so on.

    This in combination with the scales, CAGED system and key theory will help set you up to get whats in your head out through your hands.


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    Antisocialiser
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    thanks thom ill check it all out. Should i purchase a book/dvd or is there a good website i can pick up this knowledge from? i started lookin at the solfege system today for the interval recognition thing you were on about and its helping with my ear already. ta again
    mick


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    Thomas from Presence
    Registered Users Posts: 1,151 ✭✭✭Thomas from Presence


    This is the one I get all my students to buy. The technology bits are totally out of date but the theory bit is gold.

    http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679742751/104-7705150-9322366?v=glance&n=283155


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