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Let's go over the human weaknesses as far as comprehending the instrument called guitar. Also let's clear up the misinformation and teaching programs that are designed to confuse and keep the student busy and paying, even when the teacher is sincere. One human standard comprehension is that higher floors are on top of lower floors. In music this is not how it works as you will see....
Issue number one: On the guitar, as you go physically lower towards the ground, the sound goes higher in pitch. When the neck is tilted up and in standard position then as your fingers go higher towards the ceiling, the sound goes lower. This is counterintuitive and requires mental training in order to quickly compensate rather than taking years or decades of playing to partially overcome. To confuse things further, you can compensate by making higher sounds when going physically higher on neck (which feels normal mentally) if you change strings by going across the fretboard. Deal with this issue now or it will hold you back until you do
Issue number two: It is extremely difficult for human beings to mentally see an open string as the next lower fret that doesn't need to exist. If this difficulty in perception is not dealt with and overcome, then the guitarists will be handicapped throughout their career. In the case of bluegrass and other open string styles, if you don't mentally see the open string as the next fret and mentally learn to easily compensate for your left-hand finger position, then you won't have a career. LOL Lot's of rock music and other styles do not fully and fluidly incorporate open strings as much partially due to this natural difficulty in perception.
Issue number three: Enslaved guitarists don't know why the B string is tuned a halfstep lower. It's lowered because the guitar, in its current form, developed into an instrument with four strings and two bass strings. The top four strings become super comfortable for the hand to be in a perfect position to reach all chord forms, notes, and scale forms. The trick is that you must train your brain first to build your chords from the first string as the bottom instead of pursuing a slave mentality of holding down unnecessary bass notes that orient you in the other direction and which are already represented musically and therefore are redundant. We were taught to do that because guitar was first taught from piano books using the loudest open chord positions possible using capos and barring as quickly as the students fingers were strong enough. This is a slaves direction to go in and no real professional guitarists plays that way, unless it is for historical purposes like performing the rock opera "Tommy"or simply playing in a block barre chord style out of desire.
I am not against playing anything in particular, I am against guitarists not even realizing that they are limiting themselves due to indoctrination into the world of being a guitar slave in ignorance. I am not against being a slave if you are consciously choosing to live that way because you want to. It is not the guitarist job, though, to unnecessarily hold down bass tones which are not adding orchestration, and whose use is simply for volume. What's worse is that you see bands with two guitarists playing their slavish bar chords in exactly the same position creating a phasing sound rather than having the second guitarists playing a different register in order to facilitate real orchestration.
Issue number four: Our brains work with the idea of laying a foundation, then building higher, and using lighter materials as you build up into the sky. In music, those physical laws do not apply. My example is to imagine a building with 12 stories. The building is unique because it starts with the lobby, then the first floor, then on top of the first floor is another lobby which is exactly the same as the bottom lobby. So in between each floor is an exact duplicate of the lobby and they all have the same value. So normally if you want to go to the third floor you would enter the ground floor lobby and go up the elevator to the third floor. To further the analogy of this "music structure building" in music we can go directly to the third floor lobby. Imagine the building has a terrace on every lobby, so music is like flying so you can just fly to whatever lobby that you want. This allows for putting the floors anywhere you want anytime you want. In other words since you can enter any lobby by flying up to it directly you could name a floor the first floor or the 10th because it's irrelevant as there is no need to go in an elevator and go linear up the floors to your floor. So on the guitar the root or bottom note could be played in a higher register with exactly the same musical structure. It takes proper training and guidance to readjust your perception and freely enjoy what the laws of music afford.
If you can understand that the bottom strings on the guitar are meant for bass orchestration and not chord extension..... If you can understand that notes play a role that is not a hierarchical building block system from ground up, but a solar system of notes that interact and coalesce until they musically gel..... If you can overcome that everything is backwards and adjust for the fact that when you look at other people play, it is a mirrored image and therefore also backwards..... That the open strings are the same as an additional fret….That the B string is designed to help give you everything you need in the most comfortable position starting with only four strings… That musically you don't have to double notes in two or three places on an instrument with only six strings because one note will do the job, especially with all the support with band backup and or what people hear in their minds as you play..... (Yeah, when you play properly what you leave out is mentally added by the listener's mind) ..... if you compensate for these things in the beginning of your career with the guidance of a bona fide music Maestro, then it is smooth sailing to master the skill of playing the guitar quickly.
Issue number five: if you truly understand unisons and the amazing value that the guitar can actually play the same pitch in more than one place you will have an amazing freedom. If you do not fully understand the mechanics of unisons you will most likely be stuck in the mire of being a professional student with all these charts to "memorize". Memorizing is no way to live. If you're in the backseat of a car on a date at the drive-in, it would be ludicrous to have to look at cheat sheet or use memorization techniques to know what you want to do next. LOL Comprehension eradicates memorization and speaking the language of music fluently destroys repeating what other people said and brings out what is truly inside of you.
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