So I was jamming with my friend (1st jam for me and it rocked!
) and he is waaayyyyyy better than I am and I was just asking him how he sees the fretboard of the guitar and scales and whatnot. Well, when he explained it to me it kinda made sense but I was wondering if anyone could elaborate.
I knew the "shape" of the penatonic scales going in. He showed me how the same shape moved up and down the fretboard into different keys. So he would play a progression and would say to me "play over this with a D major pentatonic scale." And from what he showed me I went to the bar chord of D major and from where i put the little bar (on the 7th fret), that where i played the same pentatonic "shape" that i knew:
--1----4-----
--1----4-----
--1--3-------
--1--3-------
--1--3-------
--1----4-----
I also knew the next shape (2,4 / 1,4 / 1,4 / 1,3 / 2,4 / 2,4) too and so i would solo (or try to
) over what he played. We didn't this for everthing!! F, C, G, E (easiest he says cause it starts on the open string), A, everything! but only Major and minor pentatonic. And it sounded
good. I started to see a pattern and it all kinda clicked for a minute. I've lost that "click" sense cause I've become confused again...
So My questions are:
-Is this a good way of looking at the fretboard
-Do I correctly understand the thoery from what I have written
-Is this how
planetalk is set up? (It's only confused me and maybe i'm ready now!
)
-Is there a pattern for the other scales (major, minor, etc.) and what's the difference b/w say a Em pentatonic scale and just a regular Em scale?
-Do you hate me yet?
Ok don't answer the last one.
Hopefully I have made some sense and can get some explanations. Thanks your taking your time to read this and help a beginner out.
