Students of mine always seem to get confused when it comes to, Guitar Direction. By that I mean being told to go up and down the neckNeck is a short story by Roald Dahl. It first appeared in the 1953 collection Someone Like You.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neck_(short_story) as well as up and down scales on the neckFair Haven is a neighborhood in the eastern part of the city of New Haven, Connecticut located between the Mill and Quinnipiac rivers. The northeast section of the neighborhood is also known as Chatham Square.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Neck_(New_Haven) of the guitar. This is inherently confusing because up the neckThe Neck is a mountain in northwestern British Columbia, Canada, located in Mount Edziza Provincial Park. It is a volcanic feature of the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province that formed in the past 1.6 million years of the Pleistocene epoch.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Neck_(British_Columbia) means towards your body (for righty's or lefty's) and down the neckThe neck is the part of certain string instruments that projects from the main body and is the base of the fingerboard, where the fingers are placed to stop the strings at different pitches. Guitars, lutes, the violin family, and the mandolin family are examples of instruments which have necks.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neck_(music) means away from the body. This seems to feel backwards as you want to move up and away or down towards yourself. The key here is to realize that you are not moving up and away up refers to moving up in pitch as you move towards your body and ascend the neck the note pitch gets higher and goes UP Think of the notes going up and getting higher and higher as a way to connect to this particular musical direction. You can also think of going up with the fact that the frets numbers are going up as you move towards your self on the guitar neck, as the frets climb higher 12, 13, 14. the pitch gets higher and you are moving up the neck.
The second and most confusing is the direction of a musical scale. If you play a G major scale starting on the the third fret on the Low E string and play all the way up the scale to the 3rd fret on the High E string, you feel like you are going down to the ground but you are really going up as the pitch of the note increase with every interval as you ascend through the scale. The same thinking applies here as before. Remember to use your ear not your eyes when told to play up the scale, you will be moving down towards the ground but up in pitch.
This seems to help my students I hope it helps you. See more lessons, tips, chords and scales at my website
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