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#251296 - 23/02/09 12:08 PM Re: Wolfes Beginners guide to scales [Re: CortRedHanded]
andy508 andy508 One of the Regulars Registered: 23/02/09 Posts: 71 Loc: N devon	How please if Im not being impertinant? this is way better than Harmony Central and acoustic guitar forum all they seem to talk about is guitars and a few links to fee paying sites in USA. All I do at the moment is strum the same few (15) chords with no idea why. Thanks a lot
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#251297 - 23/02/09 12:55 PM Re: Wolfes Beginners guide to scales [Re: andy508]
Richard - Richards Guitars Richard - Richards Guitars Administrator & Forum Council Member Old Timer Registered: 30/07/01 Posts: 5446 Loc: 5 Tiddington Road, Stratford U...	Originally Posted By: andy508 Im quite literate, not normaly stuck for words but this is magnificent. Thank you there are months of CONSTRUCTIVE learning all before my eyes. I have spent ages trawling net finding a little here a little there and trying to piece them together. I have a spring in my step since I found this. PLEASE DONT LET THIS SITE CRASH Well it is hosted on one of the most robust managed servers in the UK (via rackspace)and costs me a small fortune to run so.... you should be ok! _________________________ http://www.richardsguitars.co.uk http://www.guitars.co.uk/richards
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#251341 - 24/02/09 08:50 AM Re: Wolfes Beginners guide to scales [Re: Richard - Richards Guitars]
andy508 andy508 One of the Regulars Registered: 23/02/09 Posts: 71 Loc: N devon	Well it is hosted on one of the most robust managed servers in the UK (via rackspace)and costs me a small fortune to run so.... you should be ok! [/quote]
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#251342 - 24/02/09 08:51 AM Re: Wolfes Beginners guide to scales [Re: andy508]
andy508 andy508 One of the Regulars Registered: 23/02/09 Posts: 71 Loc: N devon	Thats very reassuring Richard, thank you for the site.
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#251434 - 25/02/09 08:36 AM Re: Wolfes Beginners guide to scales [Re: andy508]
andy508 andy508 One of the Regulars Registered: 23/02/09 Posts: 71 Loc: N devon	Read a little again but need to practice while its on the computer monitor, its an L shaped glass table which will take a little while, I figure its worth it though as there seems to be a little on you tube Anji Gimmie Shelter ... anyway.... I digress are there any other software packages either for sound or practice that could help while looking at your lessons,a vague question I know I think I have in mind a virtual metronome and in the future a simple recording setup to analyse my weaknesses, thanks Andy
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#251435 - 25/02/09 08:40 AM Re: Wolfes Beginners guide to scales [Re: andy508]
andy508 andy508 One of the Regulars Registered: 23/02/09 Posts: 71 Loc: N devon	God I am not blessed with intelligence... all I had to do was turn the monitor round .....oh well at least I try(lol)
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#251450 - 25/02/09 12:51 PM Re: Wolfes Beginners guide to scales [Re: andy508]
Wolfe Wolfe Professional Forumite! Registered: 19/07/06 Posts: 975 Loc: Scarborough	A simple trick you can use to train your ear is to record each note of your instrument as a separate mp3 file. Play the note and wait four or five seconds before hitting stop on whatever recording software your using. Load the mp3 files into your mp3 player (either on your computer or your portable mp3 player). Hit the play button but make sure you've got the device/software set to play the songs in random order. The name of this game is to listen to the note being played and then find it on your guitars neck before the next mp3 plays. You'll almost certainly get it wrong most of the time when you start doing it. But do it for half an hour every day and as the months go by your brain will start to identify the location of the note on the neck with less inaccuracy. Why would you want to do that? Because knowing the location and name of the notes on your instrument is less important than knowing how they sound. After a while, if you hear a tune on the radio or just make one up in your head, your fingers will immediately know where to go on the neck to get the notes your hearing in your 'minds eye' (or should that be 'minds ear'), instead of relying on TABS or musical notation to tell you where to put your fingers. This is a VERY useful skill when mastering any musical instrument and will improve your ability to just 'make something up' over the top of a rhythm or bass track (most musician and non musicians alike can adlib something over the top of a backing track in their head, but can't translate that to an actual instrument because they don't know what scale their invention is in or the name of the notes etc, and therefore where to place their fingers).
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#251452 - 25/02/09 01:10 PM Re: Wolfes Beginners guide to scales [Re: Wolfe]
andy508 andy508 One of the Regulars Registered: 23/02/09 Posts: 71 Loc: N devon	So if I could do this (sounds like a lesson I could have when in my van) would it make me pitch perfect.?
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#251453 - 25/02/09 01:28 PM Re: Wolfes Beginners guide to scales [Re: andy508]
Wolfe Wolfe Professional Forumite! Registered: 19/07/06 Posts: 975 Loc: Scarborough	Pretty much. It's just one more 'trick' to add to your guitar trick bag. The more you have, the better a player you'll be. You don't need to be able to do this trick to play an instrument. But then again, you don't need to know any scales or chord theory to play an instrument (you can just pluck notes at random until you find combinations and riffs you like). But knowing these things makes life easier in the long run and stimulates your inventiveness .
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#251469 - 25/02/09 03:31 PM Re: Wolfes Beginners guide to scales [Re: Wolfe]
andy508 andy508 One of the Regulars Registered: 23/02/09 Posts: 71 Loc: N devon	Thanks, you have opened the horizon immeasurably.
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