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Topic: Anybody have a way to memorize OPEN STRING NOTES? |
Fred Glave
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McHenry, Illinois, USA
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Posted 17 Nov 2013 8:55 pm |
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I think of it as parings and position. Strings 1 and 7 are F#. Strings 2 and 9 are D and D#. The rest are easy because they are doubled or halved in value by position. G# 3 and 6. B is 5 and 10 and E is 4 and 8.
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b0b
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Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 17 Nov 2013 10:12 pm
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That's the simplest method I've seen, Fred. Good idea!
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Lane, I hate to be a stick in the mud but I must stir it up.
Are your scale tones for AF correct?
According to what I've been taught its 1,b2/9,3, Â 4/11 Â ,5,1,3,5,2/9, Â Â 4/11
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You are correct, Hans. In the A+F pedal position, the pedaled C# note is the root and the F# strings are a perfect 4th above them.
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Lane Gray
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Topeka, KS
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Posted 18 Nov 2013 5:22 am
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You're right. I plead the fact that I posted it just before going to bed after driving 604 miles and that I was 700 miles from the guitar, along with the fact that it's my least used pocket/form. Doesn't excuse that I apparently thought F# was, apparently, an F##.
Oops. I'll go back and re-edit.
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Bobby Bowman
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Cypress, Texas, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 18 Nov 2013 7:35 am
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Write everything your guitar has on it and what it does a hundred times. Sit at your guitar and go over and over and over untill you have it memmorised forward, backwards and side to side. It's just another thing to practice.
There is no good excuse not to know these things,,,even all the gagues.
Get off your butt and learn it. You and the people who listen to you will be glad. 
BB
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 18 Nov 2013 3:28 pm
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Fifi is sharp
Ellie is flat, but has a good personality
Gigi is sharp too
Eddie is a butthead
Bill is cool
Gigi, again, she's sharp
Fifi, again, is sharp
Ed, what a butthead
Don Dixon
Bill is still cool, but I wish he were Ed. |
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Gary Watson
From:
North Carolina, USA
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Posted 18 Nov 2013 6:15 pm Memory
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I think I got lost about 3 "Fifi's" and 5 "Eddies" back! 
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Tommy Auldridge
From:
Maryland, USA
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Posted 20 Nov 2013 6:16 am The best way I've found
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| Just use a sharpie marker and write it on your forearm. If it washes off with your Saturday bath, just do it again. pretty soon you'll have it memorized. Or stop taking a bath altogether! Good luck, Tommy....... |
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Mark van Allen
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Watkinsville, Ga. USA
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Posted 14 Sep 2014 6:57 am
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I advocate a combo of Ollin and Fred's thinking. The thing is to spend practice time thinking in terms of the same way you use information and stored knowledge when actually playing something, and whether we realize it consciously or not, playing consists of applying scale degrees against chords or other scale degrees within the key of the moment.
So if you train yourself to think of your instrument, positions, licks and progressions in those terms, you're ahead of the game.
Rote memorization can be a bit of a sidetrack sometimes. For example, when I first started playing, I mis-read the string order on a copedant listing, and copied it down in my string/tuning chart wrong. For the first 6 months I played I was using an .015 on my first string and .013 on the second... worked fine on a Maverick...
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Bob Simons
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Kansas City, Mo, USA
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Posted 14 Sep 2014 7:07 am
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I'd be happy if I could remember and recite what all those pedals on the right side of my U-12 do!
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 14 Sep 2014 9:55 am
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I would think that the time you spend thinking up a mnemonic and memorize that, you could memorize the string note names, or at least the scale intervals ( actually probably harder that just memorizing the string note names).
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 14 Sep 2014 12:45 pm
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I know where the "E" is...don't care very much about the rest of them.  |
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b0b
From:
Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Jamie Mitchell
From:
Nashville, TN
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Posted 14 Sep 2014 2:22 pm
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| bend down, earnest. feel sharp granny's sharp behind. every granny sharp doesn't sharp feel sharp |
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Jamie Mitchell
From:
Nashville, TN
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Posted 14 Sep 2014 2:24 pm
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| John Billings wrote: |
Fifi is sharp
Ellie is flat, but has a good personality
Gigi is sharp too
Eddie is a butthead
Bill is cool
Gigi, again, she's sharp
Fifi, again, is sharp
Ed, what a butthead
Don Dixon
Bill is still cool, but I wish he were Ed. |
Ellie isn't flat, Dixon is sharp |
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Tony Prior
From:
Charlotte NC
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Posted 15 Sep 2014 2:32 am
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When I first started playing 40 years ago...all I did was remember the 10th string was B...from that I just did like the 6 string..I just remembered the intervals per fret by the tones for the next string..I didn't really care what the note names were..! But I did know there were a couple of E's stuck in there and that was my method..eventually the string notes became 2nd nature..
"SAY" the name of the string when you strike it...it's like meeting someone for the first time, say the name.
But, again, the fret intervals starting off the 10th string is how I started...
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