satch
06-08-2006, 09:59 PM
I think this may be the ticket for every guitar player to use.
Heres the skinny.......In all my years of trying out and posting
countless ways to memorize notes/create scale tones and chord and keys
etc.......
Ive deduced it all down to something so simple its mindblowing!
You dont need to know scale names/chords/keys or any of that!
A simple collection of 5-7 different notes is all you need!
along with a fretboard diagram that displays every note name on every fret.
simply place 5-10 dimes or anything small and flat on the notes
that you make up.Try seeing a chord or two and a melody line from these 10 markers.....now move some of the markers to other frets in your scale
being creative by moving them far apart/close together/string skipping
open strings etc......lather rinse repeat.
After a good nights workout you should have a melodic peice of solo music motif
that has its own key and is memorizable.
Now build lots of these "single key songs"and now you are armed with
scale and key and chord knowledge covering the fretboard.
Try out these motif songs behind others music to see if they fit.
Once they are committed to long term memory you can mix keys together
so now your music becomes more complicated and exciting and is almost
instant with no thought involved.Its not perfect and it has its modal limits but
the true benefit is the ability to break out of box patterns and its easier to hear how collections of 15-30 notes matches against a whole other set
of 15-30 notes.The general rule is 5-7 different notes and try not to bunch
up more than 3 chromatic notes and spread the notes out kinda evenly.
Thats up to you tho and if you break those rules you will have some weird stuff going on but hey fun was had by all.
This works extremly well for composing slower melodic stuff and breaks
your old habits like a ton of bricks!
Heres the skinny.......In all my years of trying out and posting
countless ways to memorize notes/create scale tones and chord and keys
etc.......
Ive deduced it all down to something so simple its mindblowing!
You dont need to know scale names/chords/keys or any of that!
A simple collection of 5-7 different notes is all you need!
along with a fretboard diagram that displays every note name on every fret.
simply place 5-10 dimes or anything small and flat on the notes
that you make up.Try seeing a chord or two and a melody line from these 10 markers.....now move some of the markers to other frets in your scale
being creative by moving them far apart/close together/string skipping
open strings etc......lather rinse repeat.
After a good nights workout you should have a melodic peice of solo music motif
that has its own key and is memorizable.
Now build lots of these "single key songs"and now you are armed with
scale and key and chord knowledge covering the fretboard.
Try out these motif songs behind others music to see if they fit.
Once they are committed to long term memory you can mix keys together
so now your music becomes more complicated and exciting and is almost
instant with no thought involved.Its not perfect and it has its modal limits but
the true benefit is the ability to break out of box patterns and its easier to hear how collections of 15-30 notes matches against a whole other set
of 15-30 notes.The general rule is 5-7 different notes and try not to bunch
up more than 3 chromatic notes and spread the notes out kinda evenly.
Thats up to you tho and if you break those rules you will have some weird stuff going on but hey fun was had by all.
This works extremly well for composing slower melodic stuff and breaks
your old habits like a ton of bricks!