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I had a breakthrough of sorts last night...

I was practicing Session 5 and as I was finishing up I started messing around in the Am Pentatonic scale. At some point, in effort to move up the neck, I wanted to learn this area.

I was pleased to find that I was able to name the notes without looking and play a couple of songs (Ode to Joy and Yankee Doodle). I think it goes back to a YouTube video (who says you can't learn stuff on YouTube) I saw explaining how the guitar is tuned in 4ths (except the B string) and if you knew the notes at the 5th fret, the other notes are easier to figure out. I guess it just finally clicked in. I'm going to put this into my practice routine just so I really remember it. Psych!

Learning Everything I Can

Dan

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@dan0725  Way to go Dan!  Kudos to you for exploring further.  Thanks for the 5th fret tip too😊

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A recording of Au Claire de la Lune duet from the Hal Leonard Complete Guitar Course. I used Logic Pro to combine all the guitar parts (chords and notes) as well as adding drums and percussion. The first guitar part notes were played in the open position and the second part in fifth position.

Au Claire de la Lune.mp3

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Good job Dan! Good tempo, keep at it and you will notice the doors opening in front of you.

Henk

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Nice - thanks for posting!

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