mark indigo -> RE: Fret Dots (Jan. 13 2009 11:57:40)
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So, my guitar doesn't have any. I miss having them. Any pointers on how to learn to not need them? Or can anyone recommend a good stick-on product? if you have fret dots, permanent or stick on, you gonna get real confused when you move the capo from 1-2-3-4 etc. you should be able to not get lost up to about 5th position anyway, or at least up to 3rd position at first.... to begin, put the capo on high so you don't have so many frets to get lost in! then work it downwards another idea is as above for positions up to 5th, but then use the 12th fret as reference for high positions if you aren't doing this anyway, think in positions, and learn scale patterns in position covering the fretboard (see the thread "HELP - E Phrygian Question (Claude Worms)") this will help you live without fret dots also, very impotant, i don't think this came into the above mentioned thread, is the "CAGED" system of interlocking chord shapes (shapes C, A, G, E, D, can be used to play the same letter-name-chord at different positions on the fretboard). Learn these, but relate them to the scale patterns, so that at any position you know the scales, notes, arpegios, chords, and which scales and chords are in the positions above and below, down to the nut and up to at least the 12th fret.... knowing all this, and the process of learning all this, and with the capo at different frets, will make it much harder to get lost and much easier to not need fret dots!
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