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- aliendn
im researching music theory and fundamentals, and starting on piano, just to understand octaves and so forth. visually on the piano its really easy to see the patters of white keys and black keys repeating.
I was just wondering when it comes to guitar, is there an easy way to "see" the board? i mean in terms of knowing what each note is, or do you just memorize where every note is?
- brandelec0
you should know where each note is, i think you'll get it fine since you play the piano, and plus when you're reading music you can read the bar that shows finger placement for a note
good luck
- gabriel_pc0
it's very similar to piano. the fretboard of the guitar will have markings (usually diamonds or circles) in between every other fret. You use these in combination with the tuning of the strings to determine what note you're playing.
- jevad0
3,5,6,9,11,13 etc....
- mg330
I just know. Have a good ear for it, and repetition and lots of practice kind of makes your fingers go where they belong. (Of course that could also be applied to when you first get the physicalities with a pretty girl you like.)
But I honestly don't know any of that stuff. I don't even know the names of notes, chords, and only recently tried to remember the names of all the strings.
Much more fun to play by ear, and by what you feel. Thank God for that because band practice would be so boring if me and our bass player had to talk all technical about who needs to play an Am and B and whatever.
- algorithm0
if you can read music, then pick up some tablature. It should help reference the notes to the appropriate place on the fretboard.
- aliendn0
cool, yeah im familiar with the markings, i just never knew why they are there for...never thought of thinking of them as placemarkers.
mg33, i hear you, but i just feel i'l have a deeper appreciation of music understanding why people do things a certain way. also i've heard its more effective on your playing knowing stuff like inversions etc, like why play a chord uncomfortably if u dont have to. but im trying to get at the point where you're at (playing be ear), that must be a blast.
- Bio0
right. the indicators on most guitars are not set up on every other fret. they are set up specifially at certain intervals based on music theory.
3, 5, 7, 9, 12
the 12th fret being one octave higher than the open string.
i wont get technical into what each one means (in standard tuning though)
it's pretty simple once you understand basic theory of 3rds, 5ths, majors and minors (et cetera) so if you learn it for the piano, you'll pick shit right up with guitar.theory does gets pretty damned complicated the more you get into it. highly mathmatical shit. i never consciously think about it when i play. it just seems to suck the fun out of improvising... but if you want to be a great technical player... hit that shit hard. :)
- gabriel_pc0
this may be a bit off topic, I'm looking to get a nylon string guitar, any recommendations on what I should look for? (it's my first)
- aliendn0
cool, no im just probably gonna do like 1st year piano theory, i dont want to get to deep in theory, just enough for a nice platform.
reading about music theory is pretty freakin intersting though. like how in western music there's typically 12 intervals in an octave, while an instrument like a sitar has 22! freakn crazy
- Bio0
yea man. i know what you mean.
sitars are nuts.theory is damned interesting. when you start learning how every musical note reacts as a wave and has all the properties of a wave.
splitting a string in half to create harmonics, then splitting THAT in half and so on and so forth.
i have always loved how you can either get incredibly mathematical with music or just kinda feel it out.
you can get books on chord progressions and learn what typically follows what and for what reason (roots falling 5th or 3rd and such) after you get a grip on all that shit, you will 'see' how to play one chord in many places up and down the neck.wow. i am a windbag today. sorry. the boss is gone so i am stretching my fingers. hehehe
- aliendn0
no worries man, the stuff is really interesting, like how certain scales give a certain sound ie. warm or harsh and stuff like that. i guess its like design in a way, you can neglect to use design principles and still do interesting shit, but once you are aware of design principals you can understand why something looks the way it does and appreciate it more...or in a different way at least.
- zoiks0
gabriel said:
"... I'm looking to get a nylon string guitar, ...(it's my first) "Dude you got the wrong thread. You need the one about virginity