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yournightmare
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Joined: Jan 24, 2006
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Re: CAGED sequence--minor scales

First, about the pentatonic thing. Playing a pentatonic pattern means playing 5 tones, since "penta" means 5. But still, playing the "G scale form",...

16 years ago
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Re: Another Beginner Question re: Fingers

How did you finger your A chord? Just wonderin'. Lots or acceptable ways of doing it. I learned the "wrong" way and continue to use it. It prevent...

16 years ago
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Re: CAGED sequence--minor scales

No, I meant the Diatonic pattern. The G Diatonic pattern can be played anywhere on the neck, but it's not always a G scale.

16 years ago
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Re: I want to be the best guitarist ever...

But if you engage your scales, you unlock the structure of music and mastery of your instrument. I'd recommend to the OP the book "Fretboard Logic."...

16 years ago
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Re: Bm Practice

"A couple of Pick Floyd songs too. Comfortably Numb"--That's how I learned the Bm, right there. Just played Comfortably Numb for a few days and I had...

16 years ago
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Re: Schedule?

Here's my schedule: play songs or riffs that involve techniques I want to learn or techniques I need practice on. Play until I get tired of it. Onc...

16 years ago
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Re: Beethoven, Ludwig Van--Ode To Joy

MikeO, I had a hard time finding a more full arrangement of Ode to Joy. All I could find for the longest time was only the melody, and it sounded so ...

16 years ago
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Re: Improving chord changes, techniques, etc

One practice technique I have used and found successful is to change which finger moves first. That worked for me when I was first learning chords.

16 years ago
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Re: Beethoven, Ludwig Van--Ode To Joy

37 views and only one comment? Can you guys give me some feedback about this song? Would you like to see more of this kind of thing? Is it too diff...

16 years ago
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Re: Overwhelmed?

I have no clue what you guys are talking about. I play for myself. I play because it's my escape. I play because it's a challenge. I play because ...

16 years ago
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Re: Beethoven, Ludwig Van--Ode To Joy

Forgot to add that once you get your fretting hand well sorted out, it doesn't even move all that much. For example, for the opening 2 measures I use...

16 years ago
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The words are totally wrong to the most important lines of this song they are.....I gazed a gazely stare at all the millions hereWe must have died alo...

16 years ago
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Re: Hooking the thumb?

I was unaware that John Williams even had a thumb on his left hand. I think Chris C is lying when he claims to have seen it.

16 years ago
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