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Hi Ed,
I have a subscription to a product called TrueFire. They employ many well known guitar players and teachers.Larry Carlton, Johnny Hiland, Tommy Emmanuel are a few of the teachers you may know their names. It is pretty cheap instruction at less than $200 a year giving access to everything they have. It is less useful unless you are a more advanced player.There is just about any level of advanced study you can imagine.I assume there are some other good products out there.
I find many of these guys give a few free lessons on you tube. There is a lot of good instruction on the internet. I think it would be difficult for a guitar player just starting out to be able to pick out the good stuff from the not so good.If you look for simple stuff like how to play a minor or major pentatonic scale over some chords you will find a ton of stuff on you tube. Much of what you find is non sense, like how to learn to play the blues in one easy lesson using only four notes and three chords in five minuets.
I have been trying to learn how to play finger style guitar like Lightnin Hopkins. There are several people at TrueFire teaching such things and several people on you tube giving instruction on how to play like Lightnin. The problem is none of them sound like Lightnin. Close but no cigar as the saying goes. There are plenty of videos of Lightnin playing which in many cases for me is more instructive than some formal lesson.
It really depends on what style of music a person wants to learn to play. There are a zillion three chord rock/pop songs that use very basic chords and minor pentatonic scales. Knowing how to play them all over the neck is a normal skill. They will work over a large number of the backing tracks in several styles.
Learning to sight read is not a very useful skill for the vast majority of guitar players. I find it useful sometimes but it is like speaking another language....use it or loose it. I actually use it more on the piano.
I don't play much live any more. I set in with guys I know from time to time that play classic rock and really only because I know how the songs go.I would rather go to the Bake Potato in LA on jam night and play with Larry Carlton and others who can play or follow anything I want to play. It is kind of a long drive from Miami to LA...lol
When I was a kid the only way to learn how to play the blues was to go to the juke joints and watch people like Buddy Guy and copy what he was doing.
Now you can turn on your computer and see Buddy play 24/7. No A# major....lol
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As a sax player, I was taught by guitarists. Not every songwriter in the world has the wisdom to put a sax part in every song: sad but true.
So I asked the guitarist in the band to show me enough to play behind him on his other guitar, and he showed me barre chords. Later I did the same with the bass player. The result was that when we needed a "3 guitar band" I could put down the sax, play guitar and cover the song.
That was years and years ago. I suspect many the YouTube guys are doing the same thing, passing down lessons given to them by other guitarists who weren't really teachers.
I've since learned to read music on the guitar, I have a Mel Bay book and a Hal Leonard method book. I can't sightread difficult things on the guitar yet (I can on sax) but I can woodshed anything my current level of coordination can deal with.
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It's really simple actually.....
A# is moving up.... whereas Bb is moving down.... so they are theoretically 180 degrees out of phase with each other and they sound different as a result.
That was easy, wasn't it?
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Hi Guitarhacker,
Here are the two scales. How can they possible sound any different as they are the exact same pitches?
Every mode would start on the same pitch in both scales.
This was my original intent for an answer. Why would anyone compose something in A# major to begin with. My original question was why would anyone play in A#. What I was really asking is what possible sonic reason would anyone compose in A# major.
A# major: A#, B#, C##, D#, E#, F##, G##
Bb major: Bb, C, D, Eb, F, G, A
If I play these two scales without telling you what key they are in, there is no way to know if the key is A# or Bb . A# major and B flat major are enharmonic.
The frequency of A# major and B flat major is 466.164..they are exactly the same.
Phase refers to the relationship of two sine waves (signals) to each other. If both signals are at their highest peak (+) at the same time they are in phase.
So...I don't understand what you mean by "out of phase"or how the two keys could sound any different based on today's standard tuning. Perhaps I am missing something?
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BoB,
LOL...It is most common for the SAX players to be teaching the guitar players how to play lead lines. Sax players in general are are a bit more musically educated than guitar players.
I am sure that comment could start a fight...lol
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Hi Guitarhacker,
So...I don't understand what you mean by "out of phase"or how the two keys could sound any different based on today's standard tuning. Perhaps I am missing something?
Cheers,
Billy
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LOL How could I have miss that. Perhaps because I was distracted by some other humor I was looking at around the same time. https://youtu.be/HT3QYb7AN6kLOL, Billy
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