Go back to yourguitar playing. There must have been a point in your career where you’ve felt completely overwhelmed by the sheer amount of stuff there is to learn. Scales, modes, chords, notes, it’s all too much. You see the big picture and then feel the motivation drain away faster...
Hi! My name is Gianca; I'm a guitar teacher and a software engineer from Italy. In 2012 I created this website for my students, to help them learn chords, scales, the fretboard and many other guitar things; Now it's available, for free, to anyone wanting to get better at guitar....
And, of course, memorizing a sequence of frets and strings is way easier than remembering notes or scale degrees, and much easier to transcribe to other keys or scales; so, what gives? What reason is there to learn the notes on your fretboard?
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Decades later, as an improviser, I play fragments of scales I do not even know! I suspect that my intuitive ear was ready to grasp the material…I just did not have the respect for the process. The process itself had no use for what I had learned. ...
You wouldn't expect to learn a new language without learning the words you need to express yourself. You can learn the notes to a song, but without understanding concepts like chords and scales, you don't really know what you're saying. Upvote • 0 Downvote Add comment Todd M. ...
the cumulative effect of intelligently tweaking a panoply of parameters makes a superior final product. More importantly, I try to show that the producer's duty to both cultivate and capture the spirit of music is not even about the equipment; that, just as learning scales can allow musicians...
After the app’s initial launch for just the guitar, we began adding features that were convenient for users, such as introducing scales for types of music such as jazz, blues, Japanese, and pentatonic. We introduced features based on surveys and user interviews conducted by Quattro. We would...
The only way to get around this is to learn more aboutmusic theory. Specifically, you might need to learn more aboutscales, chord voicings, extensions, and progressions. Fortunately, there are TONS of free resources out there for that!
About 5 years ago, I decided to take vocal lessons to try something besides 4-part choir. After talking a bit and doing some scales, my Seattle coach said she was surprised at my low range. Her experience was that the speaking voice usually mirrored the vocal range and she would have gu...