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Originally Posted by hb
I could be wrong, but the notes I am referring to are the identical notes and not an octave apart?????!!!!
Thanks for the input.
hb
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Yes, hb, the notes you were talking about are the same, not octaves.
The lesson may have been 'Here, There, everywhere' ... the main reason I would have chosen a fretted note over its open string counterpart is the context in which it was being played ... what came before and what followed, and which chord shape I was working off. Very often the easiest is not the open string (why should an open string be easier, anyway?), it's the fretted note. Also, as was mentioned by someone else, fretted notes can be vibratoed, bent, wobbled ... which open strings can't; and the sound, the timbre ... many reasons.
But, that's not say that you can't play the open string instead. Eventually, you should be able to play any phrase in many different positions with equal ease. Open, fretted .... G note at the 10th fret, 5th string ... 15th fret, 6th string.