Virtuoso is not used lightly here, he's just got that miracle touch that makes you think he's a whole guitar section than merely one man.
Simply put, this is a way for guitarists to remember the diatonic modes. The idea appears to be original, I can't find any reference to this beautiful pattern having been discovered at any time previously.
But first, a short disclaimer. In the course of explaining this secret, some of what I shall relate will seem blindingly obvious. This is intentional. Some will seem overly sensational, even silly. This, is intentional. The whole idea is to help interested readers remember the modes. This may now appear obvious. You'll soon get used to it. I'd also like to say that the black text in a Georgia font on a white background has been specially chosen because scientific evidence suggests that this arrangement is conducive to the brain absorbing visual patterns. However, it is merely because I like the look of it. This is not intentional, it's just my way of talking, you'll soon get used to that too.
Guitar Fretboard Notes
Once upon a time I taught myself guitar and this was the state of affairs for many years until I thought to myself, Well, I'd like to know some things that I won't find out unless I ask someone.... These included esoteric matters including how to talk shop in a Jazz Band.
So, it just so happened that a friendly local market trader (from whom I bought my weekly supply of mushrooms) told me about this guy, and to cut a long story short, this same guy became, for a short time, my first and only 'official' guitar teacher.
He was wise in the ways of the fretboard and I picked his brains as best I could, between roll-up cigarettes, cups of (good) coffee, CD's by Larry Carlton, Bireli Lagrene and mad people who amplify their guitars full blast through Leslie speakers (which, incidently, sounds fantastic even via a Hi-Fi system).
How To Learn The Guitar Neck Notes
Among the many headachingly complex lessons I learned such as why a F#7-9+15 chord is so named and that sometimes you've just have to accept that there's no very good reason why a minor 7th with flat fifth is called a Half Diminished - it just is. [I'm now informed that this actually isn't true... An m7b5 is a fully diminished chord with a simple flattened seventh, rather than a double-flattened 7th (therefore, only ‘half-‘diminished). I told you it was a headache.]
He also revealed to me the rather disappointing 'truth' that if you want to learn all those Diatonic Jazz scales, you have to just play them a lot until they finally get lodged in your head.
But, my mind doesn't work like that. I thought I can handle the character of the Major (kind of cheerful), Minor (sort of sad) and Mixolydian (bluesy), but how can I get to grips with the characters if the others? What do they sound like? And apart from this, surely there must be a recognisable visual pattern in there somewhere.
Memorizing Fretboard. A Few Mnemonics To Quickly Learn Notes…
So I scoured the internet, and yet I found that no one even hinted at the existence of this amazing pattern that I thus concluded I had 'discovered'.
What this guy did for me was to bring together whole load of things that I already knew and showed me how they fit together. I had thought that modes were just to do with Plainsong, Gregorian Chants and Neo-Classical Fusion. But, no, they also turned out to be the language of exactly the kind of Jazz I was into at the time - Miles Davis in his Kind of Blue period.
The following will not be news to some, but here's a bit of background for the uninitiated. Originally, the modes were all variations of the same scale: you just start from a different degree of the root scale and go up eight notes, perhaps stopping on an interval that sounds pleasing when played with a drone. These days you can start with whatever note you want: the order of the notes in the scale is what matters.
Master Guitar Fretboard: Ultimate Trainer
, if you know the scales of these modes, it opens up the fretboard for both improvisation and composition - the same 8 notes in any diatonic octave are still available, but, for myself: while I knew these notes were dotted around the fretboard, my ability to navigate between known areas was limited to little patches where the scales I already knew were repeated. Sure, I could do a nice little run down the relative major while playing a minor key, hey, who can't, right? But, if you can get your head around
Modes, those little patches of illumination that you're limited to playing can become flooded with a light that promises to change your powers of musical expression unrecognisibly.
In practice, I couldn't say that knowing this stuff intellectually will have an instant impact on one's playing. Much of what most of us improvise in a 'solo' will be by ear anyway, and the idea of playing around patterns and scales never enters one's head because your fingers 'know' where the notes you want to play are. But in the long run, if you keep practicing scales, while playing a solo or while composing, those little prods of inspiration might suggest something like Hey, why don't you go up two frets and play a section in the Dorian mode, just to see what happens?. This might make a magical relationship between notes that your style couldn't manage in first position become accessible to you, and before you know it, you've just played an original lick just by moving your accustomed habits to another pattern within the same key.
Guitar Fretboard Memorization
Moreover, perhaps on a more mundane level, practicing the modes will help your 'finger memory' to encompass hand positions and note sequences that might not otherwise occur to you. When your ear then suggests a novel melody, your digits will then be considerably more prepared to accomplish your daring feat of virtuosity.
Did I do that made me move from the dull parrot fashion approach to something that turned me into some mad modal mnemonic evangelist?
Well, I first converted the pictorial arrangement given to me by my knowledgable and skilled guitar teacher (Nick Reygate, Bristol (0117) 962 6043, very competitive rates, excellent coffee optional) into something more suited to my style. They originally looked liked this:
Learn The Notes On The Guitar Neck (step By Step Guide)
If you look, you can see some patterns already, such as with the Phrygian and Lydian, they're only slightly different, as are the Ionian and the Mixolydian. But still, I found it difficult to absorb the information parrot-fashion. It has a 'sometimes-two-frets-per-string-sometimes-three-with-no-very-clear-pattern' arrangement (which I thought was a rather clumsy) so I changed this into a simple 'three-frets-per-string' arrangement, which enabled me to do the following:
And it certainly is a heck of a lot more fluid to play this way, you try accurately alternating two and three fingers while drumming them impatiently on a table and you might agree that drumming 3 fingers repeatedly is a whole lot easier. For a start, you have only one thing to think about - where to put those fingertips - instead of starting with the middle finger when you're only fretting twice on a string so that you can use the forefinger to go back down the fretboard a space for the next string up, not to mention having to stop the third finger from coming down somewhere before you realise that it's got to stay put and then having to move your wrist to enable you to get that forefinger in position. It's all sooo unnecessary.
You might not find this to be the case...but hey, you can still play it the other way if you want, right?
My Creative Wife Wrote Me Some Mnemonic's To Remember The Main Notes Of The Fretboard. Wanted To Share! ( The Number Next To The Note Is The Fret)
OK. So, there I was staring at these dots, thinking Hmmm...tone-tone, tone-tone, semitone-tone, semitone-tone, tone-semitone, tone-semitone and so on and so on ad infinitum. Then, I put my guitar down and promptly forgot about modes for several weeks.
When I came back to it, fresh and with enough will to live to face all those dots without thinking oh...what has all this got to do with music? and I started seeing patterns. But I didn't go and have a lie-down...
This is where you should start paying attention, because everything I am about to say must be seen and observed, otherwise, the Table at the end is just going to look like a load of boxes with coloured dots arranged in an apparently meaningless (albeit, perhaps, rather artistic) fashion.
How To Memorize The Location Of The Notes On A Guitar's Fretboard? Any Tips
Once you've seen the pattern, don't force yourself to carry on reading, oh no not on my account. Go away and explore the scales, all you need is a print-out of the diagram.
First of all, I noted that keeping to a strict three notes per string when playing a scale reveals three different arrangements in the way each string is fretted. These are:
, above, are, you notice, conveniently placed at the beginning, the middle and the end of the seven modal scales in the octave. Of course, the eighth one can be ignored because it's
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