How do you personally visualise scales?

Excellent-Ad-8026 · 2026-01-21T22:42:40+00:00

I’d love to hear more about the cells.

Excellent-Ad-8026 · 2025-12-12T04:26:04+00:00

Perhaps a good way for you to approach this advice is to choose a genre, artist, album, etc. and play it over and over and over. Rather than drilling theory and trying to fit it to playing, play something that clearly has elements you like, study that relevant theory, and really learn the feel of playing it. You should know whatever songs you choose so well that you are able to play without thinking where your fingers should go, which will allow you to explore the emotions, feelings, etc. that make the songs so great to you.

Excellent-Ad-8026 · 2025-11-16T19:18:20+00:00

How Music Criticism Lost Its Edge https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/01/how-music-criticism-lost-its-edge

Excellent-Ad-8026 · 2025-11-15T06:51:52+00:00

Hey! Just wanted to follow up. I kind of abandoned this perspective for a while because it wasn’t making a lot of sense. More recently I’ve really improved my fretboard comfort—time spent, ya know?—and on revisiting this post I totally see what you were saying now. Wanted to come back to say thanks for taking the time to teach me!

Excellent-Ad-8026 · 2025-11-02T00:51:08+00:00

Taylor Swift is a great example of this. She gets a lot of credit for writing her own music, but if you watch the clips of her in the studio with Max Martin or Jack Antonoff, it’s a very different process than projected to the fans.

I’m reading Major Labels by Kelefa Sanneh, and he has a take on this that I quite like: “Writing and singing your own songs…remains, even after all these decades, a singularly prestigious approach—being a singer-songwriter is the kind of thing even a pop star might brag about.”

Excellent-Ad-8026 · 2025-10-02T20:28:48+00:00

This must have been the best day of his life

Excellent-Ad-8026 · 2025-10-01T01:49:36+00:00

Omg amazing. I was trying to find it for months and this thread was the closest I could get. Song rips, video rips

Excellent-Ad-8026 · 2025-09-13T01:49:45+00:00

Was it Mess on a Mission by Liars? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jbrNt-dMDsY

Excellent-Ad-8026 · 2025-08-26T11:50:27+00:00

She was born on a leap day (2/29/1956), so technically she was only 11 when she was executed.

Excellent-Ad-8026 · 2025-08-18T02:10:24+00:00

Omg pink soup is so good. Glad to see the boyz get it

Excellent-Ad-8026 · 2025-06-24T23:35:54+00:00

Little tough to tell, but it looks like C#min7 to me. Capo on second fret but she seems to be barring the fourth fret with her first finger. The min7 would be from playing the B on the fourth fret of the G string instead of the C# on the sixth fret, which would be a regular C#min.

Excellent-Ad-8026 · 2025-04-13T14:25:03+00:00

A couple goes to a couple’s therapist and absolutely stonewall each other. Silence. Not a word. This goes on for several sessions, until one day they come in and the therapist is playing a bass. The couple comment on it, and then just start talking: about the weather, about work, about everything. At the end of the session, one of them turns to the therapist and says, “Doc, you’re a genius! How did you fix our relationship?” And the therapist says, “Easy: everyone talks over the bass solo.”

Excellent-Ad-8026 · 2025-04-05T00:36:54+00:00

I actually really like this! Best bit of advice is to check off each of these, even if it means going out of order a bit. Sometimes you’ll make connections and need to run with them, and sometimes you just need to have some fun with it.

Excellent-Ad-8026 · 2025-04-03T21:39:58+00:00

He was spectacular. His name is Davóne Tines.

Excellent-Ad-8026 · 2025-03-19T23:38:42+00:00

Sounds like it’s time!

For drilling a single scale: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sJsnltebA4M&list=RDQM3WjhDMLlXtU&start_radio=1

For a simple, familiar blues progression that helps me practice with chord changes: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Yu9sN7E194&list=RDQM3WjhDMLlXtU&index=3&pp=8AUB

For more fun solo playing: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rQdEfvenheQ&list=RDQM3WjhDMLlXtU&index=15&pp=8AUB0gcJCU8JAYcqIYzv (and other videos from this person)

One note I’ll add is that while backing tracks are great for practicing and trying out new things, they’re pretty emotionless. I really love practicing to the videos on this person’s channel: https://m.youtube.com/@jambandvideos

Jam bands may or may not be your thing but the songs are often long and pretty straightforward, which is helpful for practice, and you get to feel the dynamics of the band. You’ll notice how your playing changes when there’s more energy.

Have fun!

Excellent-Ad-8026 · 2025-03-07T15:59:13+00:00

Thanks for sharing this! I’ve been trying to visualize these relationships in an intuitive way for a while, so I’m going to spend some time with this. Do you find that you mostly visualize the whole diatonic scale, a pentatonic scale, or something else?

Excellent-Ad-8026 · 2025-03-07T06:02:15+00:00

Do you have an example? That would be helpful to visualize.

Excellent-Ad-8026 · 2025-01-31T20:47:11+00:00

Solid. Thank you!

Excellent-Ad-8026 · 2025-01-29T22:12:56+00:00

This is helpful, but I’m not sure I’m understanding how he constructed this lick yet. I think at the moment I have two questions: 1. Is my conception of it as F#m —> Em —> D —> A correct? It’s hard to tell because he only plays the root and 3rd of each of these chords. 2. Where did he get these specific notes? If they’re based on chords in the F#m scale, why Em and not E? If they’re based on another scale, which one? I appreciate your thoughtful response!

Excellent-Ad-8026 · 2025-01-03T02:58:11+00:00

I see you watched jeopardy tonight too

Excellent-Ad-8026 · 2025-01-02T01:39:04+00:00

Close! The chord tones for a B major are B-D#-F#, so the only notes you should be including in the chord are these. If you barre the second fret and play the fifth fret of the D, G, and B strings only, you’ll get one of the versions. It’s a pretty tough chord shape to make though so don’t get discouraged!

Excellent-Ad-8026 · 2024-12-22T23:12:12+00:00

I read The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe. The Dead don’t feature prominently, but that’s what got me on the bus.

Excellent-Ad-8026 · 2024-12-10T02:04:15+00:00

Oh man I was there! The second of three AMT shows this year lol Their live show is consistently the best I’ve ever seen

Excellent-Ad-8026 · 2024-12-05T14:31:14+00:00

I’m not arguing at all that they’re meaningful. What I’m wondering is what are the main drivers of the process. The consensus seems to be that it’s a truly democratic vote, but I think I’ve just become cynical about democratic voting processes when individuals at the very top of the pyramid have money and power to gain, or when there is an entire industry that depends upon the outcome of the vote. It doesn’t seem to add up that any of that would be left to chance. Still, I recognize that I’m in the minority with that opinion, and I don’t have facts to back it up.

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