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GETTING TO KNOW YOU - Animated Fingerboard Exercise
Is this just me are does anyone Else's mind work like this here? When I look at this video like it is I have trouble calling out the notes. What I mean is, with the E string on the bottom and the G string on the top I have trouble calling out the notes but, if I imagine the E string is on the top left or even the E string on the top right I can look at anywhere on the fretboard and call out a note in nothing flat!! I'm thinking maybe this is because I've played guitar so long and I've been looking at guitar players hands ( left or right guitar players ) so long and knowing what chords their playing and then playing what I'm suppose to on bass that maybe my mind works back ways or something in this situation.
OK, I was just curious, does anybody here see it like this or is this just me?
As you may imagine, we at The Learning Dock had considerable discussion about the orientation of the fretboard; and there were strong arguments for all points of view. A vertical layout was ultimately rejected because there simply wasn't enough space in a screen with a 16:9 ratio to display a fretboard of sufficient size. The choice, then, was to have the Head on the right, or the left. Both cause some confusion but research quickly showed that having it on the left created far less confusion. If you're right-handed, imagine simply laying the bass, face-up, on your lap. This is what you'd see.
Hope that helps,
Ed.
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