Haven’t done any real training for close to a month now. Now trying to return back to the land of the living.
“Give to Cesear what is Cesear’s”; Give to the Death what is dead.
So we move on…
I’m working on PMT Grade 4.1, Module “Major Triad Grips (Strings 1/2/3)”.
Granted Justin has provided tabs for the “Major Triad Grips Memory Exercises,” but I need to put this into a form that - I - can memorize. At 71+ I suck at rote (fretboard) memorization, but I still have a pretty good grip on “pattern recognition.” And I milk that for everything that it is worth. TABS are too busy to memorize although they are a form of “pattern.”
So - we come to this attachment.
Three forms of playing a Major Chord on Strings 1-2-3, in this case the “E-Chord.”
For any particular triad we’ll need the chord form (grip, fingering, or whatever ya want to call it).
So the E-Major triad as the base chord form of E G# B.
From here - IF I had the fretboard memorize, I could figure out the E-Major triad chord shape. But? I don’t.
So instead I memorize the patterns based on the root note of the pattern and which string it falls on.
Then? I need to memorize the three patterns as they pertain to the entire fretboard. The patterns repeat within a 10 fret increment. So I’ll be able to create two sets of these patterns within a 22 to 24 fret range.
So the trick is to see the 10 fret range where these patterns repeat. Here’s the key: Look for the base chord form that runs up the first string (from frets 0 to 22/24), and in this case the base chord form from the E Major triad is “E G# B.”
Then memorize the visual form for the root note in each form. Then where the 3rd and 5ths notes are in the pattern.
Now - shift the pattern to the F-Chord which has a base chord form of “F A C.” Then understand that for each chord (triad) form, the three patterns are now comprised of the “F A C” notes.
So you don’t need the fretboard memorized. You need the patterns memorized as well as the Root, 3rd, and 5th for each pattern. Then you’ll know the note, which in turn will - with practice - allow you to memorize the fretboard in a way that used pattern recognition as opposed to rote memorization.
In order to leverage this pattern recognition, you’ll need to have the Major triads memorized. Later you’ll need to apply the Minor, Augmented, and Diminished rules to manipulate those patterns ‘on the fly.’
I think that’s the correct term.
