ctoddrun
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Learn that first position pattern someone posted up there.
Stay on that pattern (and skip the "blue" notes for now) and while you use those notes, learn to hum along with the notes as you play them.
If you can get to the point where you can hum the note in your head as your playing them, not just up and down the scale, but skipping strings and what not, you'll learn that scale as MUSIC instead of notes on a written page.
It'll be a great help if you use some backing track to give your ear a chance to learn how the sound relates to the MUSIC you're playing.
Once you get to the point where your ear can hear the note before you play it, based on all the humming/scale playing you've practiced to this point, you'll be able to move onto the other positions based on a combination of reading the notes to learn the "patterns" and HEARING then notes to make MUSIC.
If I could do it all over again, thats what I'd do.
Stay on that pattern (and skip the "blue" notes for now) and while you use those notes, learn to hum along with the notes as you play them.
If you can get to the point where you can hum the note in your head as your playing them, not just up and down the scale, but skipping strings and what not, you'll learn that scale as MUSIC instead of notes on a written page.
It'll be a great help if you use some backing track to give your ear a chance to learn how the sound relates to the MUSIC you're playing.
Once you get to the point where your ear can hear the note before you play it, based on all the humming/scale playing you've practiced to this point, you'll be able to move onto the other positions based on a combination of reading the notes to learn the "patterns" and HEARING then notes to make MUSIC.
If I could do it all over again, thats what I'd do.
