As a follow up to the previous post about how to learn the notes on the guitar neck, I made a graphic to visually represent the "white notes" on the guitar. This is what you should 'see' when you look at or think of the guitar fretboard.
Okay, I'm a jazz piano player recently coming to jazz guitar.
The graph assisted me in a BIG way. It's so easy to visualize the board now that I've a point of reference.
Piano players, and bass players, commonly use the almighty 5th interval. Its common use results in feeling a 5th beneath the hands without requiring a visual reference.
Using your graph as a guide it child's play to see the 5th standing at the 4th marker at the 7th fret, and doing so all the notes above the 5th automatically take on their respective interval names.
Between the 5th @ the 7th fret and the octave at the 12th fret is but another commonly used interval, that of a 4th, i.e. B-E, thus visualizing the remainder of the fretboard has the exact order and visual reference as visualizing the piano.
I clicked on your site after seeing an AAJ forum post of yours...nice work! Keep it up! I love this graph, and I'm definitely using it!
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Thanks, glad you found it useful. Cheers!
ReplyDeleteOkay, I'm a jazz piano player recently coming to jazz guitar.
ReplyDeleteThe graph assisted me in a BIG way. It's so easy to visualize the board now that I've a point of reference.
Piano players, and bass players, commonly use the almighty 5th interval. Its common use results in feeling a 5th beneath the hands without requiring a visual reference.
Using your graph as a guide it child's play to see the 5th standing at the 4th marker at the 7th fret, and doing so all the notes above the 5th automatically take on their respective interval names.
Between the 5th @ the 7th fret and the octave at the 12th fret is but another commonly used interval, that of a 4th, i.e. B-E, thus visualizing the remainder of the fretboard has the exact order and visual reference as visualizing the piano.
I can't thank you enough for this graph!
Greg
Glad it helped, and thanks for commenting!
ReplyDeleteI do appreciate it.I was looking for apps to do it myself,saw your diagrahm and will be coming back to learn more ..Thank again
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