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<h2 id="">Purpose</h2> <div id="">Absorb a mental-mapping of the C-major scale: [i] in groups of 3-notes per-string across the 6-strings, vertically; then [ii] chaining together groupings of those 6-string chunks across the fretboard, horizontally. </div> <h2 id="">Requirements</h2> <ol id=""> <li>Sing/speak <strong>every</strong> note-name aloud while (or moments before) plucking them <sub>†</sub></li> <li>Play in-time with a metronome ensuring zero errors <sub>‡</sub></li> </ol> <div> <sub>†: this is the ingredient that builds the neurological/brain link, assigning the exact fret a "name" to later remember & visualize it by. It's as challenging to do as it is effective; without this, it renders the exercises and fretboard memorization method fruitless</sub><br><br> <sub> ‡: an analogy is lifting weights, where the tempo you can: (a) speak note-names aloud and (b) play in-time, is the achievable "weight" to bench-press. Pushing the "weight-limit", aka increasing the tempo, determines how firmly the neurological/brain connection of the fret<-->note-name is achieved. </sub> </div> <h2 id="">Tips</h2> <ul> <li>"Get it off the paper".. practice without having to read the sheet music</li> <li>Start with a tempo (bpm), <strong>any</strong> tempo, no matter how humiliatingly slow, to immediately satisfy the 2 requirements</li> </ul> <h2>Estimated time</h2> <p>1 week</p> <h2>Note reference</h2> <figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-fullwidth" style="max-width:1102px" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="fullwidth" data-rt-max-width="1102px"> <div id=""> <img src="https://f005.backblazeb2.com/file/ploddings-images/blog/c-major-scale.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""> </div> <figcaption id="">(The note-names of the C-major scale)</figcaption> </figure> <h2>Exercise</h2> <div class="w-embed w-iframe"><iframe width="100%" height="600" src="https://musescore.com/user/69479854/scores/12199618/s/C5kfhs/embed" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" allow="autoplay; fullscreen"></iframe></div>

January 1, 2020

Memorizing the fretboard

A 16-part series for memorizing & visualizing the entire fretboard, building the "brain" connections to independently feel "oriented" on: (i) any string and (ii) any neck-position. It relies upon searing the note-names of the fretboard into the intuition, from the perspectives of 4 different exercises in 4 different keys.

February 2, 2019

Eb: Exercise 1 of 4

<h2 id="">Purpose</h2> <div id="">Absorb a mental-mapping of the Eb-major scale: [i] in groups of 3-notes per-string across the 6-strings, vertically; then [ii] chaining together groupings of those 6-string chunks across the fretboard, horizontally. </div> <h2 id="">Requirements</h2> <ol id=""> <li>Sing/speak <strong>every</strong> note-name aloud while (or moments before) plucking them <sub>†</sub></li> <li>Play in-time with a metronome ensuring zero errors <sub>‡</sub></li> </ol> <div> <sub>†: this is the ingredient that builds the neurological/brain link, assigning the exact fret a "name" to later remember & visualize it by. It's as challenging to do as it is effective; without this, it renders the exercises and fretboard memorization method fruitless</sub><br><br> <sub> ‡: an analogy is lifting weights, where the tempo you can: (a) speak note-names aloud and (b) play in-time, is the achievable "weight" to bench-press. Pushing the "weight-limit", aka increasing the tempo, determines how firmly the neurological/brain connection of the fret<-->note-name is achieved. </sub> </div> <h2 id="">Tips</h2> <ul> <li>"Get it off the paper".. practice without having to read the sheet music</li> <li>Start with a tempo (bpm), <strong>any</strong> tempo, no matter how humiliatingly slow, to immediately satisfy the 2 requirements</li> </ul> <h2>Estimated time</h2> <p>1 week</p> <h2>Note reference</h2> <figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-fullwidth" style="max-width:1102px" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="fullwidth" data-rt-max-width="1102px"> <div id=""> <img src="https://f005.backblazeb2.com/file/ploddings-images/blog/eb-major-scale.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""> </div> <figcaption id="">(The note-names of the Eb-major scale)</figcaption> </figure> <h2>Exercise</h2> <iframe width="100%" height="600" src="https://musescore.com/user/69479854/scores/12199924/s/Tf6tIb/embed" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" allow="autoplay; fullscreen"></iframe>