Week 26 (May 21, 2010)
Entry posted by barrymclark
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What is your favorite Heritage Color? And yes you have to pick just one!
155 members have voted
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Almond Sunburst22
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Amber Translucent5
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Antique Cherry Sunburst5
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Antique Natural9
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Antique Sunburst16
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Black0
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Black Translucent3
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Blue Opaque0
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Blue Translucent12
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Burnt Amber5
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Cherry Translucent3
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Chestnut Sunburst11
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Dark Almond Sunburst7
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Emerald Green Translucent3
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Gold Top7
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Natural3
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Old Style Sunburst17
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Orange Translucent4
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Red Opaque1
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Rose Natural1
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Sunsetburst7
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Vintage Sunburst14
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White Opaque1
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Due to my late entry for last week, this entry only comes a few short days after my last one... but I needed to get back on track.
Since my last and very recent entry, I have been going after the Dmin7 arpeggio diatonic to Cmaj in both the 6/1 and 6/4 hand positions. I have already committed 6/2 to memory.
The interesting part for me is that in the 6/4 position, the fingering pattern for Dmin7 is the same as Emin7 in the 6/2 position also diatonic to C. What this could ultimately mean for a solo run that uses the iii-ii progression is that you can play the same fingering pattern over both but only moving your hand back a full step to move from iii to ii. Does it get any easier than that?
There are others but I won't get into those as I have only noticed those in fleeting glances.
One thing I am being very careful of is to always run through the diatonic arpeggios for C in the 6/2 position before I practice on the 6/1 and 6/4 patterns. As I do this, I make sure to tell myself at the start of every arpeggio what chord this is for. I am beginning to recognize the patterns as Dmin7 diatonic to C or Fmaj7 diatonic to C. Also I am now starting to associate the note positions on the fretboard as note names and not merely fret positions. This is a 25 year old habit that is proving painfully difficult to break but it is happening.
Before I started this journey, the only notes I could immediately name off of finger position were the open notes, the 5th fret (4th for the B string), 7th fret and 12th fret notes. All of those for obvious reasons. The rest I could come up with fairly quickly but not nearly fast enough to work in a band setting. I would have to rely on the fret numbering where the inherent weakness is obvious. Now, in this arpeggios, I can easily call up D, F, G and all the others. The one that is still slowing me up just a bit is G on the B string. For what ever reason, I see the B string as an abyss of frets. Typing here, I have no issue calling up the notes, but when I am playing the guitar, there is anxiety around the B string. haha. Not that bad. I am getting it.
All things in good time and not a minute sooner than I am ready to handle it. 
Although my progression is slight compared to where I want to be and may seem small to accomplished musicians, for me, I might as well have landed on the moon. It is that exciting to me. Last night was when it hit me that I was seeing the guitar's fretboard far differently than I ever had.
Thanks, Sal!
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