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Originally Posted by stringslinger

YOU MUST MEMORIZE ALL THE NOTES ON THE ENTIRE FRETBOARD, OR ATLEAST THE NATURAL NOTES... ABCDEFG AND KNOW THAT THERE ISN'T A SHARP OR FLAT BETWEEN E AND F AND ALSO B AND C.

There is no dogmatic was to studing music!

For example, I don't know any note names except for the open notes and the notes on the 12th fret. I can count my way up and down the neck but it would take far to long to do so if i was improvising, yet I can still improvise. I know what the shape of the minor scale looks like in relation to a root anywhere on the A and G strings, also E and D strings but not as well which allows me to improvise. And I bet Kirk can vouche for the fact that people can improvise knowing note names and chord tones and zero knowledge on scales.

Whenever someone talks about music theory it seems like theirs is the one and only approach, but its not. So, felixdcat, when people tell you how they do it, never accept it as true b/c it most likely is, but for me at the end of the day the only thing that counts is how my recordings sound, and I incorporate what people say accordingly. So fiddle around and see how you like the different approaches, but there is never a 1 and only way to success.