![]() Memorizing shapes isn’t an end within itself, but a tool to assist us in our creativity. Ultimately, the end goal is always to be musical with what we are learning. This can be a helpful way to understand more thoroughly what we are playing. They assist in communicating new ideas visually and demonstrate how musical concepts relate to the guitar fretboard practically.Ģ | Understanding Shapes:Secondly, fretboard diagrams can be used to breakdown the chords and scales we already know. If you are a teacher, you will already know how important these types of diagrams can be as worksheets for students. While fretboard templates can be useful for various purposes, their three main functions are as follows:ġ | Memorizing Shapes:Using diagrams is a helpful way to memorize new shapes such as chords, scales, intervals, and arpeggios. Using and creating fretboard diagrams can be extremely helpful regardless of experience or skill level. The need to sort through and organise this geometric information, is precisely why fretboard diagrams are an essential visualization tool for many guitar players. We begin to see how all of these different patterns overlap and interconnect with each other. We notice that numerous shapes repeat themselves in various ways across the guitar neck. We find there are limitations in the shapes that our fingers are capable of playing. As we learn, we begin engaging with all sorts of different shape combinations on the fretboard. ![]() This is where the idea of shapes becomes quite an important theme in learning how to play the guitar. Each one starting from a different note at the open strings. While the piano has every note laid out in order of the musical alphabet, the guitar neck could be viewed as six short keyboards stacked on top of one another. įretted instruments are unique because they require a fretboard in order to communicate musical ideas. Some might think this is because guitar players are generally lazy when it comes to reading music (a case could probably be made for this) but it could also be explained as a simple matter of instrument anatomy. In fact, one would expect that many (if not most) guitar players are far more familiar with reading TAB’s, chord charts, and neck diagrams than traditional music scores. ![]() Guitar players have developed some unique ways of communicating their musical ideas beyond what we might consider standard music notation. ![]()
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