Re: A Modern Method for Guitar


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On Apr 13, 11:57 am, Joey Goldstein <nos...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
charles robinson wrote:
<myles...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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just picked up the 3 volume berklee modern method for guitar...largely
b/c i'm looking for some beginnerish books for teaching.

i wish i would've been shown something like this when i was starting
out! i have a feeling that by the time i work my way through it, it's
going to help me out with a lot of little gaps i never filled in by
being pretty much self-taught prior to getting into jazz.

for instance, i never learned to read in the first position...went
straight from not being able to read at all to trying to read heads
out of the realbook somewhere in the middle of the neck.

anyway, i'm impressed so far. seems to be laid out in a really
logical manner covering lots of stuff. i feel like this book
should've come as an instruction manual with everybody's first
guitar.

as part of my new practice schedule, i'm reading for 30 minutes every
day....i think i will just be using this book until i make it through
to the end. i'm thinking my other reading materials (omibook, melodic
rhythms, etc) are going to be a lot easier once i've made it through
this book. i feel like i've found the lost lesson number 1 that i
skipped that would've made college sight-reading classes a lot easier
had i gone through this whole thing first.

myles

Don't feel too bad about the first position thing. Steve Carter who
once
taught at Berklee and who also posts here quite a bit recommends
getting out
of there fast and reading up the neck as soon as possible.
Charlie

Always good for a novice to get past 1st position as quickly as possible.

But later, after being a professional player fro 15 or 29 years, I went
back and worked through the 1st half of Vol 1 again. That stuff is hard
( if you want to play it accurately)! Open position is actually much
harder to play in than the upper positions because you have to deal with
open strings ringing out when they're not supposed to be.

For reading purposes, open position is the logical place to start
because there's only one place to play any particular pitch, except for
the high B which has two possible fingerings). Puts us almost on an even
keel with piano players in at least that one respect. And it introduces
the whole 1 finger per fret idea.

But the upper positions is where it's at for most single note lines
you're going to play on the guitar.
4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th positions are the middle range of the
fretboard. I generally try to sight read in one of those positions
(depending on the key/range of the melody) and simply walk down the low
E string for any notes below the position's range or up the high E
string for nay notes above the position's range.

--
Joey Goldstein
<http://www.joeygoldstein.com>
<http://homepage.mac.com/josephgoldstein/AudioClips/audio.htm>
joegold AT sympatico DOT ca

It's nice to hear a really good bluegrass player than can really play
nice stuff down in the lower positions, sometimes using hammers based
on open chord forms. Doc Watson and Clarence White, and their legion
of followers, come to mind.


.

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