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"Keys" and "note names" literally only come up on the guitar when playing open strings. When playing fretted notes, the guitar is a completely relative instrume
by zozbot234 7mo ago
"Keys" and "note names" literally only come up on the guitar when playing open strings. When playing fretted notes, the guitar is a completely relative instrument. You should focus on learning diatonic patterns of tones and semitones on the fretboard directly, not individual notes. It's a completely different method than the piano keyboard, which involves working within a fixed diatonic framework, and altering it to make "transposition" work. This meshes well with solfège and even more so with historical solmization, which are also highly relative methods (being intended originally for the voice).
- iainctduncan 7mo agoI play electric and uptight jazz bass. While what you describe is possible for some genres, not knowing keys and the fretboard the same way you know keys on the piano is a non starter for jazz. All the competent jazz guitarists and bassists I know have this down cold. It's table stakes in my world.
- defrost 7mo ago> uptight jazz bass mah man . . . too much of that loosey goosey stuff.
- iainctduncan 7mo agoLol I have to admit, I do play "uptight bass". The Freudian thumb slip got me, ha Relaxing on that thing is hard! :)
- defrost 7mo agoRiP Eugene Wright - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qs1J612nZs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qs1J612nZs
- iainctduncan 7mo agoI adore those albums with Paul Desmond and Jim Hall. So killer.
- defrost 7mo agoI too like the albums of which you speak, they are a little tangential to the piece I linked above which was a sneaky Double Take Five misdirect. apologies.
- aanet 7mo agoHah. Bass player here, too. Although I only play the electric. Haven't had a chance to do the upright (or uptight even!). Needless to say, I only play rock / blues stuff, though I do love listening to Jazz. Brubeck is a perennial fav of mine.
- javier123454321 7mo ago> "Keys" and "note names" literally only come up on the guitar when playing open strings. That is a false statement and stated boldly. While it is possible to not know the note names, it is such a simple thing that takes very low effort (5 minutes a day for like 3 weeks) and it helps simplify, find and simply understand the instrument better. I would advise any player to just do it.