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How do I better understand the scales?
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Ode to Tragedy
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 8:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

benedict your posts only seem to confuse me more Sad.

I think you take for granted how much I know about music theory.

That is like another language to me.

All I know about reading music is the 5 lines of the staff and the notes bottom G to whatever note lands on the 4 finger on E string at the top.

I know # and 'b' means flat and sharp or natural or something but that's about all.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 12:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm really starting to enjoy my practice more now and am actually eager to do it as I find it relaxing and rewarding.

I am also practicing better and whereas before I found the beginner stuff tedious I am enjoying the challenge of learning to play the pieces properly.

I bought the second book in the ABC series and realized I still have alot of work to do on the beginner one yet before moving on.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 3:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

In the piece you thought did not sound right, without an "extra sharp" can you tell me what notes are meant to be sharp?
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 3:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Do you mean how many # signs are next to the treble clef? cos I notice there are different # signs on different pieces, sometime 1 sometimes 3. If this isn't what you mean here then what do these varying # signs mean next to the treble clef?

In that case there is one.

If not then there are no # signs on the notes in the piece.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 3:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

1 sharp means that you are playing in G Major, and all F's are sharp. (The one on the D string and the one on the E string.

All other notes are natural.

Did get my links to scales?
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 3:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ok, so I just found out the same in the back of the book Smile.

No links?

Hmm why don't they just show # next to the notes that are sharp? I am just looking at the different scales and they don't show a # sign...why is this?
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 3:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

How do you mean "Hmm why don't they just show # next to the notes that are sharp? "

If all F's are sharp, it only gets marked once. I posted some links to online scales in this thread.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 3:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ok, I see the link, I'll check that out.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 20, 2011 10:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi Ode,

Did you get things straightened out?

Thanks Benedict for all your help. -Lemuel
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 7:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

No problem.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 10:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well I've just been playing things by ear and figuring out where my fingers should land since my new violin book has a CD of all the pieces which helps tremendously since I can look at which sound relates to which note in the book.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 11:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You will need to do both playing by war and keeping an eye on the sheet music. There is also no substitute for practising scales I am afraid!
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 3:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have no problem doing the scales.

What are the advantages that doing the scales has anyway?

I don't mind doing them but I just haven't had the motivation so if you tell me why it may impel me to do them more regularly.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 5:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, any particular piece is in a particular scale, (I should have also added Arpegios). If you know the scale well, then you just hit all the right notes a lot easier than you would otherwise.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 6:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

yes, makes sense
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