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03-31-2022 03:18 AM
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Let me guess before viewing : m3rd
Although 6th and 10th are also indispensable.
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Handy playing at the beginning)
as for interval .. I guess Wes would vote for an octave)
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Thanks for an enjoyable vid Christian! You create an atmosphere where I feel I have just dropped in on my musical neighbor, at ease and instructive.
Last edited by 0zoro; 04-01-2022 at 11:43 AM.
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The most important interval on guitar
When I need a coffee, mostly.
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The discovery of Tenths, maj and min, really opened up the fretboard for me. That, and Jerry Hahn's column in Guitar Player (my pre-internet go-to), set me on a path of musical exploration. It became less about reproducing extant music and more about creating music from within.
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A most useful video, thanks.
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Originally Posted by ragman1
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Good stuff here! I've been into moving 10th's diatonically for quite some time, but I never actually noticed how many of the voicings we like so much are built around that. Hippy that I was I never thought about it.
FWIW: when I saw "most important interval on guitar" I thought of unisons. We have so many more of them than most instruments, and it goes a long way towards knowing the fretboard to know where to find them.
10ths sure sound a whole lot prettier though :-)
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Originally Posted by ccroft
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By the way Martin Taylor uses that 10ths approach in his ‘chord-melody’ book. He uses it as the starting point and constructs his whole solo guitar concept around it.
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Originally Posted by grahambop
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Originally Posted by grahambop
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Its a nice vid @chtistian Miller, but 10th, the most important interval??? What a click bait title lol!
I was glad you referenced blackbird near the end as that is basically what this is, from the first 10 or so seconds I had that in my head.
Can only be one most important interal in my opinion, the minor 3rd. Gotta be the most heard thing in pretty much all of music.
But I digress from the video itself, which is a very nice bit of free information and inspiration.
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Originally Posted by KingKong
I was glad you referenced blackbird near the end as that is basically what this is, from the first 10 or so seconds I had that in my head.
Can only be one most important interal in my opinion, the minor 3rd. Gotta be the most heard thing in pretty much all of music.
But I digress from the video itself, which is a very nice bit of free information and inspiration.
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Originally Posted by Christian Miller
(Unless/until Coltrane)
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Originally Posted by pcjazz
checkmate!
in seriousness I’m rather fond of combinations of the two.
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What is the most important interval? Its a daft question really. U can't really say.
But here are the most important ones:
Minor 3rd.... staple in blues, essential for a minro sound.
Major 3rd .... essential for major sounding sound.
Perfect 4th... essential for nearly every nursery rhyme or pop song.
Perfect 5 essential for nearly every tune, esp jazz 251s.
No other interval can come close to these surely?!
To increase the daftness, someone should start a poll...
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Originally Posted by KingKong
What is less daft is when teaching intervals for fretboard harmony you have to decide what to teach and in what order. So it actually makes sense to assign an order of importance on this basis, right?
So to clarify, I think the 10th is the most important interval on guitar, not necessarily in music. I think I state my case reasonably coherently in the video.
BTW - I find it interesting that many posters are specifying what they think is the most important interval as a chromatic interval rather than I have done, a diatonic interval.Last edited by Christian Miller; 05-02-2022 at 06:40 AM.
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At least in the abstract, this seems kind of analogous to asking which color is most important in the rainbow.
I can only be glad to be able to use them all!
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