Using Stabilisers on the Guitar Part One: Reducing the Neck
Using Stabilisers on the Guitar Pt 1: Reducing the Neck People have a better memory than they give themselves credit for. The key is how people try to remember things. For example, if you can order things out in a logical manner, you are not relying on memory. You are actually relying on order to remember itself. Why make things harder than they have to be? Collocation and Landmarks If you know that in a shopping street, one shop comes after the other, you don’t need to remember exactly what number the shop in the street has. If you know where one note is located, you don’t have to actively remember each and every note. Rather what it’s near. If we make landmarks all over the neck, we can base everything else around them. On most guitars there are 20 frets. This means that there are four sets of five frets. If you break down the guitar into these groups, your life will become much easier. You can simply learn each group independently, or two of them really well! This will r