I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what you don’t know you don’t know… you know?<\/p>\n
I mean, it’s one thing to learn a skill or a set of skills… but what if you don’t know what skill or skills you actually need to learn?<\/p>\n
Here’s an example from a lesson the other day… the student came in and wanted to learn how to play the major scale all over the neck… not an unusual request by any means.<\/p>\n
But in this case, I asked him why?<\/p>\n
Turns out, he wanted to learn it so he could solo. He thought, or had been told, that the major scale was the best scale to use for soloing… perhaps you’ve been told the same thing at some point.<\/p>\n
So the first thing I did was to explain that using the major scale is actually fairly complex because you have to know<\/em>, beyond any shadow of a doubt, how the chords in your chord progression are functioning.<\/p>\n And furthermore, over a blues progression, the major scale won’t work over any<\/strong><\/em> of the chords (without some mental gymnastics.)<\/p>\n So today’s blog post is really a call for help on my part… help me to help you.<\/p>\n In the comments of this page, I hope you’ll share a bit about what it is you really want to learn how to do… as specifically as possible.<\/p>\n For one student, it turned out that what he really wanted to do was develop his ability to hear chord progressions and follow along on the fly even if he had not heard the song before…<\/p>\n For another student, he thought learning the 5 boxes was going to turn him into a lead guitar player and it turned out that what he really wanted was to be able to solo over Stormy Monday at the local blues jam and sound good enough to have some fun with it.<\/p>\n Another student really wanted to be able to perform solo (as in by himself) and be able to sing and strum while adding the occasional fill with his guitar between vocal melodies.<\/p>\n And believe me, I’ve heard a LOT of different goals from my students over the years… so many that I realize those goals are unique to each person and each player.<\/p>\n We all tend to have this little movie that we see in our mind’s eye when we think about “when I can play guitar well…” and I want to know what that movie that plays is for you.<\/p>\n From that, my goal is to design a series of road maps that will show you exactly the skills you need to get from where you are now to where you want to be, and how to connect those skills together to some degree.<\/p>\n I’m not 100% sure what that will look like but I’m sure it depends on what you all want to learn \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what you don’t know you don’t know… you know? I mean, it’s one thing to learn a skill or a set of skills… but what if you don’t know what skill or skills you actually need to learn? Here’s an example from a lesson the other day… the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6530,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6529\/revisions\/6530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}