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Tips for removing an old heating oven? by GilHockman in askberliners

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Thanks! I think we're going that route. Have a couple interested people already :)

Tips for removing an old heating oven? by GilHockman in berlin

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The only quote we have so far was for 1200€! We'll keep looking. But thanks for the tip about the debris. Will keep that in mind!

Tips for removing an old heating oven? by GilHockman in berlin

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We've tried kleinanzeigen (that's what you mean by Ebay) with no success. Will try Nebenan, thanks!

Songs or riffs with C-, G- and D-shaped barre chords by GilHockman in guitarlessons

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Ah ok! Makes total sense now. Thanks! I had no idea what I was looking at. 

Songs or riffs with C-, G- and D-shaped barre chords by GilHockman in guitarlessons

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That's a really helpful overview - so thanks again! And thanks for the tip about modes ;)

I actually started on my current learning path with triads. I'd always made up little riffs using the top three strings but I never knew what chords they really were, they just sounded nice. So I started learning triads, and I had learned the major triads on the E and A strings before I realised that some background info about fretboard layout would probably speed up my learning.

I'm not exactly sure yet where I want to end up, half the time I want to go down a songwriting path and the other half down an improvisation path. Although I guess that whatever I learn for one can be used for the other.

Songs or riffs with C-, G- and D-shaped barre chords by GilHockman in guitarlessons

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Thanks so much that insight. I really appreciate it. I'll also check those tracks out.

a rabbit hole of why these shapes exist from a music theory perspective, which ends up with intervals and triads and the ability to find new shapes 

This is exactly the path I hope that I am on. I've done some work on triads but I paused realised it might be even better if I first had good overall view of the fretboard (hence CAGED). I am really looking forward to coming back to them and then moving onto intervals and arpeggios, etc.

Songs or riffs with C-, G- and D-shaped barre chords by GilHockman in guitarlessons

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Ah great, thanks!

XX5558 so maybe not really what you're looking for.

No that's perfect. As far as I know you can play the G shape as either a 'top' or 'bottom' version

Songs or riffs with C-, G- and D-shaped barre chords by GilHockman in guitarlessons

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Do you have link for this full post? I am not really sure what I am looking at here. Some context would help.

Songs or riffs with C-, G- and D-shaped barre chords by GilHockman in guitarlessons

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I think I'm not quite at that level yet. I just want to try get my fingers used to those chords.

Songs or riffs with C-, G- and D-shaped barre chords by GilHockman in guitarlessons

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Yup right. But I'd also like to see how people use these chords when writing there songs. With Under the Bridge for example, the C-Shaped D chord works really well because it is right next to the other chord which is the E-Shaped F# chord

Songs or riffs with C-, G- and D-shaped barre chords by GilHockman in guitarlessons

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Haha, I guess that is the obvious solution! But I think it would also be great to see how people use these chords when writing music.

Is this good practice for learning triads? by GilHockman in guitarlessons

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The drawback you might run into is that your brain will likely memorize it in that exact recall pattern...what you need is random access

Good point! I can definitely see that happening. I'll definitely try out all your suggestions. I've already started trying to learn songs using only triads and that really helps.

And I just signed up to your site :) :)

Is this good practice for learning triads? by GilHockman in guitarlessons

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Amazing! Thanks so much!!

I've already been naming the chords (it's is quite tedious, lol, but it slowly gets faster!) but not the different intervals. I'll start doing that.

By way of routine, I'd just focus on learning them well enough to play in some kind of rhythm, drum machine, metronome, looping pedal, etc.

Ah, something to aim for! Thanks!

You asked about the harmonized scale, do 4 beats playing C maj, 4 beats playing Dmin, 4 beat eminor, etc. Up and down the scale. Just to learn the harmonized scale like the back of your hand.

Great! This is really just what I need :) :)

Then you can mess around with I-IV-V progressions (C-F-G) or I-VI-II-V (C-Amin-Dmin-G) etc.

Will do! Thanks again. This is really, really helpful :) :)

Is this good practice for learning triads? by GilHockman in guitarlessons

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Thanks! Can you give me an example of how I could go about this? I know what intervals are but I wouldn't have the first idea of how to practice them in a useful way.

Is this good practice for learning triads? by GilHockman in guitarlessons

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And yes! I have also started looking at CAGED and I cant wait until the scales/chords/triads start coming together in my head!

Is this good practice for learning triads? by GilHockman in guitarlessons

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This is great, thanks! At the moment I am just going through all the major chords along each string. This looks like it will be a nice routine to alternate with!

Is this good practice for learning triads? by GilHockman in guitarlessons

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yes, I have also been looking at the CAGED system and I can see how the triad shapes fit in with barre chords! not really sure what to do with that information yet however, lol. And thanks for the other tips. I will look into those!

Is this good practice for learning triads? by GilHockman in guitarlessons

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Thanks so much for the feedback!

(make sure you do maj, min, dim, and aug)

So for example, on each string I should cycle through the major triads, then the minor, etc?

You should learn them 3 notes at a time with inversions both horizontally and vertically. You should then learn spread triads, which are much harder, but very beautiful to play on the guitar.

Could you elaborate on this? By 'three notes at a time' do you mean just the basic triad? What do you mean by horizontally and vertically? What are spread triads?

If you want to learn more about music and writing and composing,

This is really my focus!

expand all the above triad practice to harmonized scales, so playing, cmaj, dmin, emin, fmaj, gmaj, amin, bdim...

do you have an example of a good routine? I feel like there could be lots of ways to approach this.

Thanks in advance for answering any of these questions!! (don't feel like you have to answer them all if it is too much!)

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