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I mean a lot of guitar music doesn’t work in position either…
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04-26-2024 08:42 AM
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Behold, I gift you with my brain-facts
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The only rule I've found that works well for guitar fingerings is the "5 fret rule," i.e., cover a 5 fret span with your index finger and pinky, and you could slide up or down with your index finger (or with your pinky a la Allan Holdsworth). So this would mean you really only have about 3 positions on the fretboard.
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These are positions.
The UNT (and probably Berklee) definitions of “position” is the fret behind your middle finger. The pinkie can cheat forward one feet and the index finger can cheat backward.
And you end up with twelve positions, I think. You could cover the neck with three or so, but you’d still get different fingerings every time you move up a fret.
(yes, this is too many positions, and no I don’t use them this way.)
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CAGED for life. Don't harden simple things.
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There's other seven positions, or one position (the whole neck), or any number in between.
Or maybe more positions if we do the one octave thing.
The more ways you have of doing things, the better.
I have a preference for bop though,
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Here’s a position for you.
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Actually, the entire 4 bars could be played in the first position if you use open strings but it may sound country especially if you're playing a Tele.
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I don’t do open strings. They confuse me.
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All this talk about fingering and positions... sheesh... makes me feel a little squirrelly.
BUT I have decided to change up ow I play measures 5-8 since it seems to be hanging me up and I see nobody else using the fingering I use, so why not?
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Why not try it as a Bossa Nova? Coming soon to an elevator or dentist's office near you!
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But the thing is, I realized after playing it in the first position with open strings that Ab is the toughest key to play this tune in.
I mean, duh!, I should have transposed it to a different key first and compared fingerings, because in every other key it can be played almost entirely in one position.
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