Re: Teaching the upper neck

"Itz Just Me" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> How about this...how did YOU learn the upper neck?  A string at a
> time?  Positions?  I'm revamping my approach on this issue and
> feedback will be appreciated.  Thanks.

And btw, the reason I know the neck at all is intervals.  I learned all the
shapes and sounds early on and they opened up the fretboart to me.  I know
if I'm at G and I need a C, I go up a perfect fourth, one string, one fret,
or one string, two frets between the 2nd and 3rd string.  This isn't really
an "approach" to fretboard knowledge as far as I know, it's just what
happened.  If I was some kind of marketing-savvy weasel I could probably
turn it into an approach, copywright it, and sell a bunch of books on it,
but I'm not.

Anyway, knowing the fretboard and actually being able to actually read up
there were, to my dismay, two completely separate things.  But it does help
a lot.