kayDUB wrote:
At around 2:30 he starts analyzing a lick and says exactly what note he is playing and what he bends to etc. Do any of you guys think like that when you play? I don't...
I guess one should know when you are playing the I, IV, V etc, but I generally have learnt what sounds good (and where on the fretboard) by
I'm just trying to learn this stuff at the moment under Rene's patient tutelage. Have no doubt, this stuff is important. Most knowledge seems of questionable value, until you have it. Then you wonder how on earth you survived without it. The more you know about what's going on on the fret-board, the more flexible you become, the more able you become to play whatever comes into your head.
From what I'm discovering, it starts with the relative stuff, rather than the specific notes. The position (described with reference to the major scale) relative to the root. It means you can duplicate what you want in any given position, in any given key. There's no doubt that someone like Clapton knows this stuff. In fact, learning some of his stuff, I can hear it. I can hear him choose to play the lick in a different position where it's more convenient - because he has that flexibility.
You can do some very cool stuff without this knowledge. But it's becoming clearer and clearer to me how much
more you can do with it.
