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Triple The Speed Of Your Learning With A Pitch Graph (it’s quick and easy)
By Mike Hayes | July 1, 2010
If we continue to look at the guitar neck as if we are sitting
in the audience nothing much will ever be revealed; what we need
to do is get behind the eye balls of the professional player to
see how they view the fretboard.
From the audience perspective all you can ever see is six silver
strings however, when you are viewing the fretboard through the
eyes of a professional guitarist it the neck takes on a whole new
accelerated learning experience.
Although there seems to be lots of notes on your guitar the good
news is that many of the notes are duplicated on multiple strings
and fret positions.
A great way to become aware of this is to create your very own
pitch graph like this:
How To Create Your Pitch Graph
(a) grab some colored pens (fluro pens are my favorite)
(b) rule up six lines across the page to represent the six
strings of the guitar
(c) mark in twelve frets and we’re ready to go!
(d) color the first string yellow
(e) color the second string yellow at the fifth fret onwards to
the twelfth fret
(f) color the third string yellow at the ninth fret onwards to
the twelfth
(g) next, mark the second string using a green pen from the open
second string to the fourth fret
(h) mark the third string green at the fourth fret to fret eight
(i) color the fourth string green at fret nine to the twelfth
fret
(j) mark the third string with an orange pen from the open string
to the fourth
(k) moving over to string four mark the fifth to the twelfth with
the orange pen
(l) color string five at the tenth to twelfth with orange
(m) now it’s over to string four open to the fourth fret with a
blue pen
(n) color string five at the fifth to twelfth with blue
(o) string six from tenth to twelfth as blue
nearly finished ….
(p) mark the fifth string open to fifth with red
(q) string six, fifth to ninth is also in red
Now you have a very colorful guitar fretboard that will give
you a visual layout of how the fingerboard is viewed by a
seasoned player.
Pitch graph concept: same color = same pitch
The idea is to show you that strings marked with the same color
equals notes of the same pitch e.g., the pitch of the first
string is duplicated on the second string at the fifth to twelfth
frets; it is also duplicated on the third string at the ninth to
twelfth frets.
You can use any colors have fun and be creative and most of all
enjoy exploring the fretboard looking and listening for
duplicated notes.
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