The Most Powerful Fretboard Visualization Exercise I've Ever Practiced

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00:00 - Intro & what we're doing
01:24 - Thinking in intervallic functions / scale degree.
01:37 - Ascending recap example 1 - the 3 inside of a three note per string scale.
02:22 - Ascending recap example 2 - the ascending 3 hiding in the cowboy C chord.
02:50 - The problem in only doing it ascending from the root.
03:30 - What if we could also see it DESCENDING from the root!?
04:19 - Visualising down in pitch from the root to the intervallic function / scale degree.
04:41 - Why this is so incredibly powerful.
07:10 - Practicing descending from the root using the Solo 2.0 on iOS.
09:07 - Wrapping up.

[DavidBeebee]

This is an incredibly simple but often overlooked concept. As guitar players we can quite quickly and easily learn to see intervals and scale degrees within our large structures and shapes when ‘ascending’ in pitch from the root. For some reason though it’s way harder (and not really practiced) to see intervallic functions and scale degrees DESCENDING in pitch from higher root notes. Diligently working on this was an absolute game changer for my fretboard knowledge and general fluency moving around the neck! Hope this helps some of you guys and girls, thanks for watching 🐝🎸

[Nako]

Great way to start applying this stuff is just using the blues as a guinea pig! Can go from the simple version to a jazz blues as you get it going. Very fun and rewarding!

[robertanderson]

You're right. I know ascending inside and out, but go completely blind in this direction! Great tip.

[oldmanshreds]

I have been doing the visualization course and using Solo for maybe three weeks now, every day, for 10-15 minutes in the middle of the practise session. I love it, and it has helped tremendously. I feel that its priming me to take on the next steps for improvisation. I did not internalize much from caged or running scales, but now I am really building a mind map of the intervals.

[pulidomi]

Could you make a video on how to eliminate tension in both hands, and how much force to use in the right hand too?

[APKManagement-rgpx]

Thanks, great way to get the mind thinking

[johnnytwo-shoes]

Music teacher here. I find the term intervallic functiom a confusing term in context of intervallic value, similar the confusion in US numeric naming of beat values and 1/8th = 1/2 a beat. The naming of something using the same term to describe the another with the same unit name.

I do realise you also call it a scale degree/value which is what I'd emphasise rather than the emphasis placed on intervallic function which seems prevalent here. I'm a nobody in the scheme of things but I am a professional and very experienced educator who understands confusing terminolgy.

Until you demonstrated, I thought you meant to descend by a 3rd interval from C i.e. to Ab. This is a descending intervallic 3rd, but in your language is to descend by an intervallic function of a b6^..?

The descending intervallic function to a 3^ (scale degree symbol) is actually the intervallic value of a descending b6.

So i would present the same excellent concept as visualising descending to the same scale degree and identifying the shape as a descending b6 interval.

The rule of 9 for inversions. Ascending P4 interval is a descending P5 interval to descend to the same scale degree - can't do the caret above the number.

E.g. C or 1^ up to F or 4^ is a P4 interval.
C or 1^ down to F or 4^ is a P5 interval.

Up to 4^ = 9-4 to descend to same degree 4^ i.e. down by a P5 interval.

That way I'm not confusing the nomenclature of interval value and scale degree. Again what I've written is also confusing but the way you've described it, will have people confuse descending intervals and descending to the same scale degree which has an inverted intervallic value based on subtraction by 9 and swapping the m/M if the interval.

It's a great concept and how I like to visualise the fretboard too just the wording and language you're using "intervallic function" in place of just scale degree is confusing without the demonstration.

But again alrhought I'm a formally trained educator with a teaching degree, I'm also a nobody with my opinion. I hope that it does help though.

[silverappegio]

Will buying the course includes the Solo App ? or we need to purchase separately :)