🗓️ Music Theory Live Class #12 | November 19th, 2024

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Howdy, guitar enthusiasts! :guitar:

:notes: Mark your calendars for our final PMT Live Music Theory Class of 2024 with Justin on November 19th! :notes:

Don’t miss this chance to ask your theory questions!

Click here to reserve your spot! :tickets:

See you there!

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Hi Fanny,
My wife is having surgery that day. Will there still be a recording available after the class?
Thanks,
~C

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Hello Fanny, is it possible to drop a question in advance here or somewhere else over the website? Thank you!

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Hey! Yes, there will be a recording available. :slight_smile:

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Hey Silvia - sure! feel free to share and I’ll add it to the question board :slight_smile:

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Thanks Fanny!

My question is about how gradually and methodically expand the knowledge of and the connection to the fretboard, as I now feel quite comfortable only within the 5th fret.

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Do you think it might be a good idea to learn the Major Scales Patterns to use them as shortcuts for the Play what you hear exercise? And…do the Triads shapes derive from the Major Scales patterns?

Thank you all, Justin and Team for this opportunity to ask our questions!

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Hi Silvia - it’s been added. :slight_smile: Cheers

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@cjipper

I hope the surgery went well.

:pray:

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Thank you. It seems to have gone well. I got her home and in bed. Now we just need to get through the recovery period.

Thank you!
:mending_heart:

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@Silvia80 - completely forgot about your question I’m so sorry :frowning: I’ll get you a written answer from our team!

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Glad to hear it went well! Wishing her strength and a smooth recovery. <3

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Don’t worry Fanny, I imagined with so much going on at the moment!

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Hi @Silvia80! Here’s a response from one of our guitar experts, @Dave_Birnie:

If you’re already comfortable with every note up to the 5th fret on all six strings, try learning the notes between frets 5 and 8 next.

I think it would be a good idea to eventually learn all 5 patterns of the major scale. However, you shouldn’t do it all at once. Take your time with them and really become comfortable with each pattern before moving to the next. Ideally, you want to be able to play each pattern automatically without having to think too much about it. That takes a lot of time and practice though. Here’s a link to some videos about how to play each pattern of the major scale.

Learning major scale patterns might help you when doing the “play what you hear exercise”. Knowing all 5 patters fluently is not essential though. That exercise is more to do with being able to recognise the distance between notes and being able to find them quickly and accurately on the guitar.

Triads can be viewed as being derived from the major scale but that’s not the only way to think of them. All chords (including triads) are groups of specific notes played together. Usually, chords are built by taking specific notes from a scale. When you learn all 5 patterns of the major scale, you will eventually be able to see the triads within the scales. That’s quite advanced though, and probably not the best way to learn triads. Another method of learning triads on the guitar is to view them as smaller versions of bigger chord shapes you already now. For example, one way to learn a major triad is to play the thinnest three strings of a major barre chord. Here’s a link to Justin explaining this:

Hope this helps. :slight_smile:

Cheers,
Fanny

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Thank you so much Fanny! I wouldn’t have expected such detailed answers, at least not in the restricted time of the live session with a lot of questions to answer. This helps a lot :pray::blush: You all make an amazing Team there, supporting Justin’s work and effort to teach so many people around the world.

@Dave_Birnie thank you so much for your response, it does help a lot! I’ll learn the patterns one at the time; for the moment using them for my ear training is my priority…I was kind of fearing an answer like “you don’t need the scales for that”, which I’m sure it’s true…but they just make things easier and now I can’t wait to learn the first pattern and find my melodies there!

As regards the triads I’m studying them and can play those on the 3 thinnest strings at the moment. I’m studying Classical guitar as well and in a Standard Notation music sheet I find only the notes and not the chords…but when I look at the performances on YouTube I clearly see those individual notes are played within triads shapes, and though I shouldn’t bother about this now as I’m just a beginner I much enjoy getting awareness of how the fretboard is structured and works.

Thank you very much Dave for your response and the links to Justin’s lessons.

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Hi @Silvia80 . I’m glad that answered your questions. I’m happy to help. Let us know if you need any more help with anything.

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Silvia - I hosted several Vintage Clubs on Triads too …

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Thanks Richard for the links, they come with perfect timing! :blush: I just completed Grade 4.1, which is about triads (btw only 1 mistake in the final quiz, even if it took about 1 hour and 15 minutes to answer all the questions! :nerd_face::sweat_smile:)
I’ m often reluctant to move on with the lessons as I often feel there’s something missing for me, something more I should try to put into practice on the guitar; I’ll check your lessons soon and they’ll be for me that chance to put at work some further understanding.

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