Chords for Lee Ritenour - Lesson

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_ Easy way to give yourself a little test that doesn't make you a good reader, but merely tells you
_ If you have a good understanding of the fingerboard for instance
_ Let's take an F natural
There are six F naturals [Bb] on the guitar fingerboard _ between the frets 1 and 12
And there's one [Bb] string on the fifth
One on the fourth, one on the third, second, first, etc. _
_ _ _ [Gm] Give yourself a note like [Bb] an F natural say okay
How fast can [Eb] I play those six F naturals without [Bb] thinking about it ahead of time just?
_ _ _ _ Snip them out _
Otherwise you should be able to think of every note whether it's a F natural or somebody says
Play A flat _ _ you should be able to do it that quick and and and have that blueprint [Bbm] in your mind of where those notes are _
Now Daisy here has been playing almost four years and you learned how to read just about from the beginning _
_ _ [Eb] Daisy let me give you a note [Bb] and _
_ And let me see what speed you're at now, and maybe we can find out
_ [Bb] If you know the notes in one part of the notes better than the others
How about A flat? _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Okay, we have one mistake here on the second string _ _ _ _
Let's do one more note C natural _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ You feel like you're stronger in one position than another you [Gb] know the notes equally well up and down the fingerboard
_ I think I'm stronger from the ninth fret down that that's usually very commonplace
The the higher we get up the neck the harder it gets for most players
_ now
Okay, assuming that
_ You've given yourself
_ That test _ [Gb] and
[Bb] _ If you
Give me a note for instance a [Bb] D a D.
Okay.
Let's say you you play a D and you start
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bbm] _
_ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ Say you did it that slowly you [F] have no chance of becoming a great sight reader at this [Gb] moment.
You've got to get the speed up
Quite a bit faster.
You've got to get it down to really a couple seconds if you're if you're under two or three seconds
You're in great shape [Bb] if you're up to four or [Eb] five seconds
The chances _ are you need a lot more [Bb] work and give me one more _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ So that's how quick you should be able to finally have it down if you do have it down that quick with all the
12 chromatic tones
You're probably in pretty good shape that you do know the fingerboard
_ However that really just to have that blueprint
In your mind of isolated notes
is not the only key to knowing the notes on the fingerboard the scales and the way you get around the notes and
Finally where you play a musical phrase on a certain part of the fingerboard will be the the key to the way a musical phrase
sounds let's say for instance that we had a
musical phrase a very simple
_ _ Very simple musical phrase that was written down on the music paper and it went something like _ _
_ _ _ Okay
_ Most students and even some professionals who don't read very well
If they saw that written [Eb] down on the music paper, they [Bbm] would maybe read it down here _ _
But in probably that's the worst [Bb] place that that that particular phrase sounds it would sound much maybe much better up here
_ _ It'll sound much warmer because you're on the [Gb]
fatter strings or maybe even [Bbm] up here
_ or up here
_ _ So you've got several different choices every time you sight [Ab] read a musical phrase
You've got many different [Bb] choices of where to play it on the guitar
And you have to make also a subconscious decision immediately as to [G] where that musical phrase will [Bb] sound the best on
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _