Most pro players think the harmonic numbers instead of Chord Names.

This is the secret to being able to instantly Transpose to any of the 12 keys, for one thing.

There are many other advantages to doing it that way, also.

When I frist started out, and even for quite some time after that, I too thought that there were "infinite" possibilities in music, especially in the songwriting aspect of things.

I soon found out -- and finally got it through my thick skull -- that while I *could* do things that weren't popular or done before, that it is best to intorduce those kind of things very sparingly because people listening to the thing are not ready for a lot of "different" things happening at once. Such is the way of western music and it has been that way from the beginning. Example, today we all know and love the use of the Tritone within the Blues idiom, which forms the basis of the Jazz and Rock idioms also. But there was once a time when that was just not done and the people could not hear it.

This is a fascinating subject to explore, BTW. Along the way I learned just how much of what we can get away with doing is a matter of perception as vs possibility.

""You don't know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know everything." --Branford Marsalis

BTW -- I've played Guitar for decades, too.


--Mac

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