first instrument on the way to fluency.. about 2 months after purchase and i'm jamming already. Nice Lesson makeup David
Greetings!
So... let me give you some background. I have had a guitar (electric) for nearly 30 years and always had it in the back of my mind to go back to learning it as music was a great love of mine.. ( my preferred style being death metal! :) ). I bought recently a new acoustic and I was finding it bothersome to my one or two picks between picking the guitar up and putting it back down again and bumping it on things... so i got the idea of a harmonica.... wow! something that i can take in my pocket anywhere and pull out and start playing.
now the 30 year intermission? well i seem to have been born into thinking about it in terms of my physics classes and wasn't happy to play until i understood everything.
after pursuing things like trying to hear the note based on frequency which i now believe was wrong... i found some interesting video on youtube on "standing waves" and the nodes on those waves.. and i now believe that the significant thing is the number of standing nodes. perhaps this is correct and perhaps this is incorrect, i still don't know. however thinking of the number of standing nodes being the key thing to recognise a note by i got to thinking about the notes in line with the other things that i knew about numbers in general like the progression of tarot or ogam or other number systems... and guess what - i found it - a perfect match!
I can now hear notes and what they seem to "mean"
So having purused Davids lessons i jumped straight to the ones on soloing and accompanyment and now i am jamming away transcribing the goings on in my head, thanks to the link back to tarot and such other numbering system, directly into awesome sounding tunes
So this morning i had come to the end of a session having just woken up and trying to clear my head and that job finally done and everyone happy i started with a little fill that summerised when was due to come after the big win and started my "fill" as A#, A, C (X4) and a small number of notes to describe the new stuff comming to life suddenly as everyone went about their business again.. just amazing
So thanks go to David ( i didnt mention but possibly should have, i also had to do the initial lessons on bending and such which would have been difficult to work my way around without the diagram on the diatonic 10 hole with all the bends included in the diagram from the sites downloadable resources)
well i guess the simply moving the guitar from one house to another and finding a place for it's stand to sit might have helped me learn music, but no, my first real successful attempt at music came with the harmonica.
so the numbers have a meaning of their own. to point to this i mentioned tarot. tarot starts with 1 = new thing (the note might sound like making space for something) 2 = protection (the note sounds like it means safe distance). you can only follow tarot up to 12 or g# in correspondence with musical notes but the 12 in tarot is knight and lo and behold in the notes, the note sounds like making way for something or something approaching.
i also found that i could use the celtic alphabet to transpose. it's quite easy. It is arranged 4*5 sections called forfeda, the ogham. so the ogham alphabet goes
b l f s n
h d t c c
m g v s r
a o u e i
i transposed the first 3 forfeda's first letter onto an A note, the second position onto an a#. this i continued through the 5 positions in each forfeda until the final forfeda i placed onto the D note up to F#. the ogham sort of runs out after this so i use tarot numbers for 11 and 12 so "page" and "knight".
...and as far as i have been doing this - the notes correspond nicely to the letter and make for some really beautiful sounding music
Im impressed at what you can do but a 30 year guitar player likey has an advantage over a guy who played sax in the coilege band. Im not familiar wiht the reference to Tarot and numbering systems. Are these aids for transposing? Thanks
Gary