For everyone playing guitar,be it at a
rudimentary level or advanced. It's best that we know the tool ( guitar
in this case) as well as we can in standard tuning. If we flip the
tuning pegs this concept will have to be re mapped.:). Here goes...
If the low E string is the X axis and the fret is the Y axis...then if the root note i.e 1 is on the low E string....the successive notes on the strings along the Y axis will read...1,4,b7,b3,5,1. Now when you want to find intervals and extensions all you have to do is extend this system with common sense. Its like having intervals on the Y axis and finding stuff that's closest to that fret.i.e. the 6th will be a whole step away from the B string,the #4th will be one step up on the A string and so on.Now try making your own chords. Of course the root can move from the top string and the system wraps around,but like I said being alert at geometry in school will pay off now...Just simple fretboard recognition tools. Yes the B string is weird and is a half step down, but you will map this difference and absorb it if you chart all the notes on a fretboard diagram.
Critical to know the E,A and B strings very intimately as the D and G are whole step displacements of the E and A.Once you know the E,A and B string's you already know 4.And by the earlier rule you will know 6 in time.
Whenever you are hit with #13's or some such highfaluting number it will be easy to find your way if you studied the relative intervals using this system.
So by internalizing simple and logical tools you will be able to find any note on the fretboard.You can as an exercise, start forming chords and number all the degrees of the chord and form extensions using this logic.By knowing the fretboard it becomes very easy to alter scale tones and turn them into devilish ones.
Please read this slowly as it is a logical exercise and needs to be applied. Once you have this down you will be very comfortable :)
If the low E string is the X axis and the fret is the Y axis...then if the root note i.e 1 is on the low E string....the successive notes on the strings along the Y axis will read...1,4,b7,b3,5,1. Now when you want to find intervals and extensions all you have to do is extend this system with common sense. Its like having intervals on the Y axis and finding stuff that's closest to that fret.i.e. the 6th will be a whole step away from the B string,the #4th will be one step up on the A string and so on.Now try making your own chords. Of course the root can move from the top string and the system wraps around,but like I said being alert at geometry in school will pay off now...Just simple fretboard recognition tools. Yes the B string is weird and is a half step down, but you will map this difference and absorb it if you chart all the notes on a fretboard diagram.
Critical to know the E,A and B strings very intimately as the D and G are whole step displacements of the E and A.Once you know the E,A and B string's you already know 4.And by the earlier rule you will know 6 in time.
Whenever you are hit with #13's or some such highfaluting number it will be easy to find your way if you studied the relative intervals using this system.
So by internalizing simple and logical tools you will be able to find any note on the fretboard.You can as an exercise, start forming chords and number all the degrees of the chord and form extensions using this logic.By knowing the fretboard it becomes very easy to alter scale tones and turn them into devilish ones.
Please read this slowly as it is a logical exercise and needs to be applied. Once you have this down you will be very comfortable :)
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