This helps me learn guitar

[redwinepaul]

This is the C major or Ionian mode 7 note scale. If you know your A minor pentatonic you can see all five shapes here, if you take away all the B and F notes. The diffrent octaves are colored diffrent from bass in black to high notes in green. this helps me learn all the notes and where the octaves and same pitches are. You can see here that every octave starts with the C note. I stare at this when i practise scales ,it is puting me on the fast track to turning scales in to melody.
Have you found something that helps you learn faster? also i would make the pic big instead of thumbnail but i dont know how Right click open in new tab shows pic the right way. i dont know why it turned out like that

[doza808]

Originally Posted by redwinepaul

This is the C major or Ionian mode 7 note scale. If you know your A minor pentatonic you can see all five shapes here, if you take away all the B and F notes. The diffrent octaves are colored diffrent from bass in black to high notes in green. this helps me learn all the notes and where the octaves and same pitches are. You can see here that every octave starts with the C note. I stare at this when i practise scales ,it is puting me on the fast track to turning scales in to melody.
Have you found something that helps you learn faster? also i would make the pic big instead of thumbnail but i dont know how Right click open in new tab shows pic the right way. i dont know why it turned out like that

I really don't think there is a way to learn how to play the guitar "faster" IMHO. I just learned the pentatonic shapes, yes all five of them, and practiced them over and over and over and over.

The thing is to build up that muscle memory when playing so that you know where you are on the fretboard without even thinking about it. It's just practice.

You know that saying, "practice makes perfect?" It applies here and holds true no matter what you're trying to accomplish.

[davies]

I always love these threads about ionians, pentatonics, shapes etc. Because I don't have the first idea what anyone's talking about. (Well, ok, not strictly true but...)

If you asked me to play a scale starting on the nth fret of the nth string, I could. Without thinking. I could even tell which key it was. Ask me what its 'proper' name is, which of the five (?) shapes it is...

Hell, I just play the damn thing and, to (eventually) answer your question, the thing that helps me learn faster is... practice.

[Angus]

Originally Posted by davies

I always love these threads about ionians, pentatonics, shapes etc. Because I don't have the first idea what anyone's talking about. (Well, ok, not strictly true but...)

This brings to mind something I read that John Mclaughlin said which was something like, "Jimi didn't know all that much about scales - he didn't need to, he knew what went in between the notes..."