I apologize if this isn't the right place for this, but I asked on the guitar sub and the only response I got was basically "lol understanding music is for fags bro".
For a little over a week, I've been:
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Working on pieces I already know and speaking the note names as I go through them
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Picking a note and trying to find it everywhere on the fretboard
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Frequently drilling on a few different phone apps, either finding a given note on the fretboard or giving a letter name to a fretboard position
And while I can do that, I don't feel like I'm retaining it very well or getting much faster at it. I still have to think, "uh, G string, two whole steps up, that's B."
Some articles and Youtube videos say I SHOULDN'T be counting frets like that, but if I could just look at a note and know it without without any reference points, I'd already have the damn thing memorized.
Am I going about this the wrong way? Or is counting intervals okay and it just takes a really long time to get proficient at it?
Submitted November 29, 2016 at 07:20PM by cacktastic https://www.reddit.com/r/Learnmusic/comments/5flppm/question_about_learning_note_names_on_guitar/?utm_source=ifttt
Javier Rodriguez
Tuesday, November 29, 2016