Is TAB bad for JAZZ? and Fretboard Mastery: NOTES or INTERVALS?? 🃏🎸👐

Learn the guitar Fretboard by Notes or Intervals? And is TAB part of what's holding you back??

🎸 This seems to be a question which comes up a lot, and if you ask me the answer is actually pretty simple. After teaching hundreds of jazz guitar students over the last 25 years I've seen people hit the same stumbling blocks over and over again. A common one is not learning the basics of music (note I don't use the word 'theory' which makes it sound like something separate from music itself), like the musical alphabet, and the way notes relate to one another - ie Intervals, Chords, Scales, etc.

📞 I think TAB is often partly to blame. It has its uses, but often it leads to avoiding learning the basics of music and prevents us from being able to speak the language of music and be able to communicate with non-guitarists.

🔮 I don't think that this applies to everyone (and I'm certainly not judging anyone for not being able to read music), but in the realm of jazz it's only in very rare cases that the great players were unable to read music - and certainly most of them understood music theory and knew the notes on the fretboard. The remaining few were geniuses...


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'Students often ask me: "Should I do
A or should I do B?" Most of the time
I ask them: "Why not do both?"

Mick Goodrick 🧙‍♂️


Link to the wonderful interview with Alvaro Pierri:

   • Alvaro Pierrri, Second Part Interview  

[The part I mention about 'Curiosity' is towards the end of the video]


CONTENTS:

PART 1

00:00 - Introduction
00:32 - A Prisoner of TAB's
01:38 - Isn't it Hard to Read on Guitar?
03:08 - A Barrier to Entry
04:22 - Am I Saying TAB is Bad?
05:18 - Advantages of Standard Notation

PART 2

06:07 - Learn the Fretboard: Intervals or Notes?
06:53 - A Couple of Examples
09:13 - Wise Words From the Masters
11:05 - Jam Out...


Thanks for stopping by the MUSIC MAGUS channel, and as always, all the best with your music.

Aleister James Campbell 🤠🤘

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