I'm a guitarist with a fairly solid understanding of diatonic theory, scales patterns, and chord progressions, and I'd like to overcome my fear/discomfort (slight exaggeration here) of sharps/flats. With guitar these notes aren't very obvious, and by using scale shapes I can play in pretty much any key I want without even really needing to know the notes, but I want to get out of that habit because my eyes kinda go cross-eyed whenever I try to speak out the notes in a scale that have a lot of sharps and/or flats.
My biggest problem is this: How do you internally "verbalize" a sharp or flatted note when you are learning or playing a scale? I always have trouble with this because it is easy to say C, but twice as cumbersome to say C#; this becomes a bit ridiculous when going through a heavily accidental (is that a phrase) key. I know this sounds a bit silly, but for me when learning scales it stops me from being able to breeze through like I should usually.
Also, I understand the concept of enharmonic equivalents, but am confused about when to refer to a certain note as a sharp of its lower note, or a flat of its higher one. Is there a rule for this?
Does anyone have any advice for beating this? Should I just pick a key with lots of sharps and flats like F#Major and dive in?
If anyone has any tricks for "internally verbalizing" the sharps/flats when playing scales I would really appreciate it. For some reason that is holding me back big time. Any advice about this topic in general is very welcome.
For the record I usually play in the key of C, G, A minor, and Eminor.
Thanks!
Submitted December 16, 2016 at 04:16PM by HAHA_Aku_HAHA https://www.reddit.com/r/Learnmusic/comments/5iq3yn/advice_for_overcoming_phobia_of_accidentals/?utm_source=ifttt
Javier Rodriguez
Friday, December 16, 2016