Dear Tomo,
I have been very interested in learning and practicing sight reading and have taken your courses before so came back and want to study sight reading now. I have the book to follow too, however I have a question I haven’t seem to be clarified. When I read the notes on the staff, I think of the octaves on the guitar (from standard tuning) and the 4th octave has come up quite a bit in the first exercises in the book from what I have read and seen the note to be. However, it’s very difficult to keep these notes in the 4th octave (or any of the same octave where it’s not all over the guitar neck, same with 3rd octave etc.). For example, looking at 4th octave of C, I find it on 2nd string 1st fret. However I see it played on different octaves despite it being the 4th. It makes me think that the intention of how the author/composer wrote the book was not intending to keep the same octaves for playing on guitar. From watching your course, it seems you’re focusing more on the triads and not the strict number of octave. My note identification is pretty good, however this has been a bit of a road block. If I could have some clarification on this and how to approach finding the correct octaves of the notes that would be great, or if keeping the root note in that octave is good enough etc. because some shapes aren’t possible to play (at least with two hands haha) while strictly keeping octaves, or you have to go very far up/down the fretboard. Thanks Tomo and everyone in the community!!
From,
Brandon
Thank you Brandon.
Guitar notation and playing actual note is a little strange.
All you have to do is to learn basic notation on Guitar Method book Volume One.
Very simple. No need to worry about outside of this book when you are learning.
If you look at jazz standard.... look up "Blue Monk"
You want to start that note D ....Major 3rd of Bb7....
Not 5th string 5th fret D.... Actually 3rd string 7th fret D.
Do what you can handle. No need to go too much higher notes now.
Middle C in Guitar is 6th String / 8th fret or 5th String 3rd fret
Next octave is 3rd string / 5th fret or 2nd string / 1st fret (more...)
Next octave is 1st string / 8th fret or 2nd string / 13th fret (more...)
Next octave is 1st string / 20th fret...
About learning fretboard... best to learn scales on One String / One Finger approach.
Do not use any tabs or any diagrams... those will not help undderstanding the fretboard.
Triad inversions are so great to learn the fretboard!
You can see and hear notes everywhere!
By the way, we did remake on Essential Music Theory section (30 lessons)
Please watch these lessons.
You're very welcome!
Thank you.
Tomo