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Guitar licks n shit
- Thread starter TheDude
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cool. Maybe i will post one. I'll try to find an easy way to post tab and staff notation. Personally i hate tab because it doesn't show any rhythmic value.
Someone told me TAB was how music was written initially, boy are they retarded. Guitar was not the first instrument lol. It wasn't fretted when it was invented. So.... whoever that was.... think about it man, it just don't make sense. The first recorded notation actually resembles Staff Notation.
The 12 tone system is almost universal in it's use because of the way sound works in terms of physics (the overtone series). There are other tonal systems, however. Their notation CAN be on the 12 tone staff, but that's not the original notation and is simply an adaptation for those who use the 12 tone staff. IDK how the people who use the other systems notate the music. Eastern systems usually include quarter tones and other microtones. Chinese music tends to revolve around pentatonics.
An easy way to play a pentatonic scale is to just play black keys on the piano. Incidentally, for every major scale, all the notes outside of that scale are contained in the minor pentatonic scale a minor third above the root (or the major pentatonic scale a tritone above/below the root. So the black keys on the piano are Eb minor/Gb major pentatonic, the white keys are C major scale. An octave split in half is 2 tritones, so that is why I say "above/below." A tritone is the same as a diminished 5th or augmented 4th.
Another easy way to play a pentatonic scale is to just play guitar. Most rock melodies and solos revolve around the use of these notes and their tendencies. This is probably because most rock songs tend to revolve around a single chord as a tonal center (i.e. E.... just E no minor or major, anything like that) and the scales provoke an ambiguity in chordal and tonal specification, making it very easy to play, listen to, hum back, and understand. It's quite a nice sound.
Maybe I'll make a fretboard chart or some shit and write out some scales or licks or chord voicings.
While this lingo may seem unnecessary, it is a written language for sound. You don't learn how to play a sport without knowing how to talk about it, do you? Or electronics. People that write schematics aren't assholes, are they?
Someone told me TAB was how music was written initially, boy are they retarded. Guitar was not the first instrument lol. It wasn't fretted when it was invented. So.... whoever that was.... think about it man, it just don't make sense. The first recorded notation actually resembles Staff Notation.
The 12 tone system is almost universal in it's use because of the way sound works in terms of physics (the overtone series). There are other tonal systems, however. Their notation CAN be on the 12 tone staff, but that's not the original notation and is simply an adaptation for those who use the 12 tone staff. IDK how the people who use the other systems notate the music. Eastern systems usually include quarter tones and other microtones. Chinese music tends to revolve around pentatonics.
An easy way to play a pentatonic scale is to just play black keys on the piano. Incidentally, for every major scale, all the notes outside of that scale are contained in the minor pentatonic scale a minor third above the root (or the major pentatonic scale a tritone above/below the root. So the black keys on the piano are Eb minor/Gb major pentatonic, the white keys are C major scale. An octave split in half is 2 tritones, so that is why I say "above/below." A tritone is the same as a diminished 5th or augmented 4th.
Another easy way to play a pentatonic scale is to just play guitar. Most rock melodies and solos revolve around the use of these notes and their tendencies. This is probably because most rock songs tend to revolve around a single chord as a tonal center (i.e. E.... just E no minor or major, anything like that) and the scales provoke an ambiguity in chordal and tonal specification, making it very easy to play, listen to, hum back, and understand. It's quite a nice sound.
Maybe I'll make a fretboard chart or some shit and write out some scales or licks or chord voicings.
While this lingo may seem unnecessary, it is a written language for sound. You don't learn how to play a sport without knowing how to talk about it, do you? Or electronics. People that write schematics aren't assholes, are they?
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i'll have to throw some stuff together and throw it down.
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