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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:
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. |
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"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 |
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