Liverpool Guitar Tuition Tips:-
If you can wizz up and down the fretboard as fast as you like but are not good at identifying the note names on each string your going to hit a brick wall very soon.
If you have go through the musical alphabet fret by fret from the open strings in order to know what the 10th fret on the D string is, your falling into a bad habit of thinking that its OK to know the notes names in that
way. Another bad habit is only being able to locate notes from thinking of octaves from the Low E string and A
strings.
The goal should be to eventually just know the note names on each string without having to go through the alphabet fret by fret or thinking of octaves from other strings.
One method I use with my students is simply to memorize one note on each string and remember the fret number as if it where a telephone number, for example the note of C on the low E string is the
8th fret, A string 3rd fret, D string 10th fret, G string 5th fret, B string 1st fret, High E string 8th fret.
So the note of C on each string from Low E to High E gives us the Telephone number of 8,3,10,5,1,8.
Now if you know where the note of C is on every string, finding the note of B is simply a
semitone (one fret) before C.
So the telephone number for the note of B is 7,2,9,4,0,7.
I think you get picture....
This is one of several methods that I use in my teaching to enable the students to eventually just know
the information rather than allow them to fall into a bad habit.
I hope that this tip has helped you in some way.
Neil ;0)
http://www.liverpoolguitartuition.com
If you can wizz up and down the fretboard as fast as you like but are not good at identifying the note names on each string your going to hit a brick wall very soon.
If you have go through the musical alphabet fret by fret from the open strings in order to know what the 10th fret on the D string is, your falling into a bad habit of thinking that its OK to know the notes names in that
way. Another bad habit is only being able to locate notes from thinking of octaves from the Low E string and A
strings.
The goal should be to eventually just know the note names on each string without having to go through the alphabet fret by fret or thinking of octaves from other strings.
One method I use with my students is simply to memorize one note on each string and remember the fret number as if it where a telephone number, for example the note of C on the low E string is the
8th fret, A string 3rd fret, D string 10th fret, G string 5th fret, B string 1st fret, High E string 8th fret.
So the note of C on each string from Low E to High E gives us the Telephone number of 8,3,10,5,1,8.
Now if you know where the note of C is on every string, finding the note of B is simply a
semitone (one fret) before C.
So the telephone number for the note of B is 7,2,9,4,0,7.
I think you get picture....
This is one of several methods that I use in my teaching to enable the students to eventually just know
the information rather than allow them to fall into a bad habit.
I hope that this tip has helped you in some way.
Neil ;0)
http://www.liverpoolguitartuition.com