Bertotti
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Still hard to believe there is a nice new section. Anywho, I’m still working in the first few pages! Slow going!
Johnny Smith Method
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What book are you using?
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@Synchro ... I moved it
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Thanks @thunder58
( good morning ) you're welcome
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Can we move the older Johnny Smith thread into this one or this forum?( good morning ) you're welcome
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Here is a link to an older thread. I think there was another as well.
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Johnny Smith method again
This just came to mind. The wild thing about Johnny, was that guitar wasn’t his main interest in life. He was a bit of an outdoorsman, and he loved flying, more than anything else. He spent his last working years as a flight instructor. Anyone who has spent any time in Colorado Springs would...
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Done .......
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Thanks!
MrWookiee
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I'm on the fence about joining @Bertotti on his JS quest. I'm very interested and intrigued but don't have guitar commitments to other people. I do have bassoon and tenor sax commitments, so practice time is limited; even the trombone has stayed in the closet since the pandemic began. Between that and the fact that I'm self-taught, I'm only half way through the Hal Leonard method book for guitar, after 2.5 years. Sad!
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Yea, I have no commitment to JS but it seems like a good amount of practical stuff to learn. I like to learn. I don’t like Jazz much at all. Oh and I have had this book probably as long and haven’t touch the surface of its contents yet!
FWIW, this book changed me as a player. That was a long time ago, but this approach, of dividing chords and scales into three “forms” is how I map the neck to this day. When I added in the Major and minor triad inversions, it was like the one puzzle piece that made the picture come into view.
We‘ve talked about this book, on and off, for some time, so I requested a place where the explanations could be brought together, into one place.
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For me it is a vehicle, a road map to get me more focused on what to learn and when, and tie it all together! My biggest problem is I have to find a way to make a bit of Tim each day to work on it. Travel and work 10-18 hour days at times really makes that hard. I have fallen behind in guitar and my favorite instrument, mandolin.
In a sense, that is what this book does most effectively. It treats all 12 keys equally, with the goal of making a player equally proficient in every Major, and every minor key. When I first studied this book, it seemed to me that I knew all of this, but when I tried to play every scale, I quickly learned that there was a big difference between knowing what notes are in a scale, and being able to play that scale flawlessly. It took some months of woodshedding to get better at the technique side of it it, but the added bonus was that it fed back into my understanding of theory, and my ear training.
MrWookiee
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My copy is on the way.
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Most excellent!
