Introductory Guitar Lesson 3 - The Musical Alphabet by Scotty West

[aquaagu2]

and is there anyway to print that sheet??

[scottyxcom]

Hi Aguaagu2,

Send your email address to auguitar@capecod.net and remind me. I will send you the chart ... OK?

all the best,

Scotty

[aquaagu2]

AMAZING INSTRUCTOR. I loved this lesson. MAKE MORE!:D

[shishir16089]

i was abe to figure out your solo in the begining by ear...any otherr tips that i can o to iprove more thanks>>>>

[scottyxcom]

Hi shishir16089,

Having GOOD ears allows you to reproduce what other people play. Having TRAINED ears allows you to CREATE great solos yourself. Of course you have to have a reasonable knowledge of THEORY to truly train your ears. Consider our DVD home study program.

All the best,

Scotty

[shishir16089]

@scottyxcom theory is actualy my weakest area ..but ya i now scales .and make my own solos ...but these couple of months i am concentrating more on my ear ..i' look forward to get your dvd in near future ..thanks

[skoolsforfools123]

Wow that was one of the best explanations i've ever heard

[paragonx88]

really awesome vids, i need this, i can't handle normal style teaching, these vids are just what i need.

i appreciate it, the advice about soloing is about the sounds in your head from singing notes was perfect, i get it now.

good style of teaching too, different and fast.

good work!

[MClown69]

wow this helps alot! my neighbor was tryong tp ex-plain this to me and I wasn't getting it. now I understand! I been play liek a year and a half and can play open chords and a couple other variations and I can play power chords but never understood the root notes and all that stuff until now. makes lots of sense to me now! thanks man!!

[briansixtyniner]

brilliantly explained,very easy to grasp the way you have it laid out.thanks for the lesson.

[scottyxcom]

Hi Briansixtyniner,

Thanks for the feedback. Glad we could help. We're posting more video soon.

All the best,

Scotty

[scottyxcom]

Hi Gmeister616,

Glad we could help. We'll be uploading new lessons soon so check back for more cool stuff.

All the best,

Scotty

[KvSrocks]

this is great, im subscribing

[fadidiab]

i love your logic

[xbadandy182x]

Good job on this video Scotty. I'm an intermediate level guitar player.. So far, everything you seem to be teaching registers to me. I've always been at a loss of words explaining this kind of thing to people however. I will definately be studying your videos in depth to see how my playing can improve with a little technical inspiration. :)

[angieloverboy32]

=] its me again,ive got another question,im planing to pay a new electric guitar,so im just wondering,iv used one of my friends fender without a amp connected to it,so i also am planing to pay a fender,so would all fenders need an amp to make the sound amplified or can i just buy it and then buy the amp seperate??? i know its kind of dumb questions but ive been around guitars that didnt need the amp to play it so im just a little confused

[scottyxcom]

Hi angieloverboy32,

HOLLOW body electric guitars will produce some sound without amplification ... however SOLID body guitars require an amp.

All the best,

Scotty

[MClown69]

u can get a acoustic. no amp needed for thsoe

[lospitta420]

wow..i never got this in elementary but now i get it..

[scottyxcom]

Hi Dimesime369,

Great question. I'm 55 ... started playing Piano at 6 ... Guitar at 10 ... was pretty serious by 16 ... but I still didn't "GET IT" untill I had the good fortune to hook up with some EXCELLENT teachers while in my 20s ... Dan May, Dick Wetmore, Richard Brookes. I tried to encorporate all I learned from them into our home study program. The MUSIC AS LANGUAGE concept and the emphasis on EAR TRAINING evloved out of that.

Continued success!

All the best,

Scotty

[Dimeslime369]

i have a question for ya scotty!

how long have you been playing?

at what age? and how long did you play guitar and music before you really discovered you could unlock these things you "already knew"??

thanks man youre the shieeet!

[revan107]

btw i'm confused if the musical alphabet repeats after 12 units 7 white and 5 black...wait is this chart a little wrong or somethin? why is b under the seventh white note?

[scottyxcom]

Hi revan107,

The chart is OK. Yes ... they begin to repeat after 12 notes. Think of this chart as somewhere in the middle of a piano keyboard so there are notes both higher and lower than the ones that are labeled. I started with A and went through one full octave. Call or email me if you're still confused.

All the best,

Scotty

[chellerif]

waoh...bringin back all sorts of memories from marching band! great lesson! i didn't understand reading music until i was a junior, yet i actually played since 5th grade, LOL

[cooper324]

Very informative and good job including visuals of the piano. I'm starting to see more of a connection between my piano keys and my fretboard after watching your vids. Thanks for your help!

Two year (on and off) guitar and piano player,

Cooper

[scottyxcom]

Hi cooper324,

Glad we could help. I hope to get a video lesson uploaded this weekend that goes into the relationship between the keyboard and the fretboard in even greater depth. Stay tuned!

All the best,

Scotty

[1jimif]

But since it's a little higher then e we also call it e flat?............uhm you lost me there?

[scottyxcom]

Hi 1jimif,

Yes ... I think I misspoke there. Eb is of course lower than E. Sorry for the confusion. I plan to go in an edit that when I get a chance. Thanks for pointing it out for other viewers.

All the best,

Scotty

[1jimif]

NP Scotty, Your lessons look like they could be helpful to a lot of people. Good luck with what you do, ear training in my opinion is the most important part of learning to be a good musician.

all the best back at you......Jim

[matthew1820cam]

great video!!

[seanman11111]

u help me so much

[peepeeland]

12 notes in the most common *Western* musical alphabet.

[fartalart]

or european but people got there inspiration from elsewhere like middle east but the first people to actually organize it were the greeks and they came up w/ the grand staff. it was actually the first form of math to be taught in the entire european culture

[SoliTary001]

awesome stuff

[SoliTary001]

another great lesson!!

[hawny101]

You're a good teacher. I know all this already and cant wait till you get onto the more advanced stuff. Wish I had this when I started out. Keep up the good work.