Guitar Ear, Fingering, Memory Training with Visual Musical Notes Presentation

Learning with C major scale PAD gives confidence of knowing where notes are on the guitar and how the guitar musical structure simplifies playing music. You already know what to do and what to search for in studying other keys and scales. With all that it is easier to concentrate on learning music, developing ear, technique, rhythms. No more pain to remember where each note is. Memorizing notes on the guitar fingerboard is a special skill of a guitarist which should be approached with respect to its complexity as a separate discipline.

Finally, efficient memorization involves "recall". Want to remember ? Practice recalling. Envision the notes in your mind, "en-hear" the sounds. Play them on the guitar. Of course, even with PADs, memorization of the notes will take some time. But this time is a very efficient investment. In about a month an average dedicated guitarist can learn all the notes sufficiently well. Then working with musical pieces will take much less time, effort and pain. Productivity gain is enormous. When I have learned notes myself with the PAD method, I experienced an euphoria of getting right into music instead of tedious attempts to find where to put a finger. I wish you the same feeling and more creative freedom.

Memorizing notes

Continuing studying other keys and scales you will find less difficulty!

Now learning music is EASY!

Now it is easier to concentrate on learning music, developing ear, technique, rhythms.
No more pain to remember where each note is.

Good luck !

From the blog

January 28, 2011

Of course music is the world of sounds and vibrations crystallized into notes, melodies, harmonies, and rhythms. For listeners, this is quite sufficient world, and no special education is need to listen to music, enjoy it, and even be an expert in some musical area.

However, being able to play a musical instrument requires more. One has to be able to produce a note. With fingers in the case of a guitar. And in order to learn music, all these melodies and harmonies, one has to communicate with other musicians. Of present and the past. That what music notation is for. Not only other guitarists, but also, for example, with piano players. Being able to recognize by ear what others are playing, but also to read the written music. All that tells about the domains a literate musician should be able to operate:

"Fingering", tactile skill of producing a musical note;
"Ear", skill of knowing how sounds sound, to be able to reproduce it;
"Notation", skill of reading the symbols of written music;
"Internal ear", skill of creating music in the head, which can be treated as "Ear" skill;
"Logic", skill of knowing what note curries what name, what chord or arpeggio it belongs, harmony, and key of the musical piece.

All senses are involved: ears, eyes, tactile ones, and mind. Memory is involved. An advanced musician lives not only in the world of sounds, but int he worlds accompanying it: tactile world, worlds of musical symbols and their logic.

There are 12 relations between each of these domains:

	"Fingering"	"Ear" and "Internal ear"	"Notation"	"Logic"
"Fingering"		Listening to music, and playing along.	Looking a written music, playing it.	Playing by the note name, chord name, or improvising in a key.
"Ear" and "Internal ear"	Knowing before-play what sound is produced at a specific finger position on a specific string. And chord.		Looking at the notation and imagining sounds	Imagining sounds by note and chord name.
"Notation"	Playing music and visualizing the note symbols played.	Listening to music and writing it down.		Given a chord name, writing its symbols.
"Logic"	Playing a note or a chord and knowing its name, harmony, and key it belong within the piece.	Listening music and telling what key, what chords and sounds are.	Looking at a notation of the musical piece, and telling underlying logic of this: what key it is in, what chords correspond to certain bars.

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Available PAD in the key C - Am:		Help \| Home \| Explanation \| Musical Structure of Guitar \| Success without memorizing \| Forums, Groups
Notes:	C, D, E, F, G, A, B
Triads of C major scale:	C, Dm, Em, F, G, Am, Bdim, tetrads: Bm7b5, G7
Triads of A minor scale:	E, other: A
C blues scale	C7, F7, G7
Chords over C major scale:	C, G, F, Em, Am, Dm, Bdim
Chords over A minor scale:	Am, Dm, E, G, C, F, Bdim