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> A frikkin’ guitarist. > There are two or three patterns you need to learn to be able to handle starting on a different string or different finger. This is s
by ZoomZoomZoom 3y ago
> A frikkin’ guitarist.
> There are two or three patterns you need to learn to be able to handle starting on a different string or different finger.
This is simply wrong.
Just the 3-note-per-string supershape covering the western modes is a cycle of seven ordered shapes for each string. As soon as you start including 2- or 4-note-per-string sub-patterns to move to the required position on the neck, the number of the overall fingerings and movements to memorize and practice explodes. This of course doesn't take the pesky B-string into account.
If you're a piano player, imagine playing on 6 rows of uncoloured keys of similar size, each row except one is shifted by a fourth, and the key width diminishes going up the scale (to an uncomfortable degree). No chords on a single row allowed. Oh, and you need two fingers on opposite hands to make a single sound.
- seanhunter 3y agoLol. Even though it’s not my first study I can play the guitar and certainly know what’s involved in playing all the major and minor modes. Your explanation grossly exaggerates the complexity.
- ZoomZoomZoom 3y ago> Your explanation grossly exaggerates the complexity. Where exactly? Could you please show it?
- seanhunter 3y agoThe cycle of seven shapes. Sounds super fancy but those are all tiny. I literally learned that pattern for the major modes in all positions on the neck in a day and was fluent less than a week later. When you put those small pieces together you make one of the two or three patterns that I mentioned. for example take the three note groups tone tone (cross) tone tone (cross) semitone tone tone (cross) tone semitone if you want to play a two octave major scale starting on the first finger on either of the two lower strings. That pattern is just swapped around if you want to start on the second finger. So you just play tone (cross) semitone tone (cross) to play the first octave to the seventh degree and then either slide up a fret and do the first pattern I mentioned or continue across. And if you play those patterns then all the modes of the major scale just kind of fall out of that. Not boasting - it’s just not a complicated thing at all.