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Originally Posted by Cloud_Connected  Wow thanks man. Yeah its a really hard thing to understand in the start. And there is a teacher in my town but the thing is that I outplay him  Pretty weird eh, they got a really good drummer teacher but thats another story. And there is no classes for theory in my small town in Sweden. Yeah you are right about books and stuff I should check it out. My only option is to teach myself through internet and asking people like I do now. Cheers! |
If you are asking other what to do with a C major scale I doubt you outplay anyone. So you learned to physically play a C major and fingering patterns to do it all over the neck. That is nothing until you can make music with it.
Now the real work starts making music. First use it to make bass lines. Get your recorder going lay down some C major chord and then start practicing making bass lines. Which notes work and which don't. Which notes work on strong beats and which on weak beats. Do you know any C major bass lines from bands you like, have you figured out which notes they are using from the scale. Try recording a C7 chord now is your C major scale still working? Is not (and it won't) what note or notes aren't working. Why? So you know or figured all that out well their are 11 more major scales to work on, then the minors, and symmetric scales. We haven't even got into all the different types of chords. Opp's you probably play rock so major, minor pentatonic and Blues scale to add. Then developing your ear so you can hear those sounds. Like what kind of sound is the A note in a C scale give you. When do you like and don't like to use the 6th degree of a major scale, A in this case. Developing your ear as you pratice all this stuff is important. Learn the sound of the things you are learn.
So learning how to physically play something and where the notes are on the neck is the simple part, now you have to learn to make music with it. To really learn to play you need to learn to play over all the chords. So all the basic chord types times twelve keys you have about 100 chords you need to learn play the right scales and make music. Taking one or two chords a week wiil only take you a couple years to learn the basics.
Also don't say you can outplay someone unless you describe their playing and what you are doing beyond them. Just cause you play faster or know a couple hot licks doesn't make you better than anyone. Ever notice when good musicians get together to play they don't talk about who outplayed who, they talk about the musical ideas each were doing.
I don't mean to jump on you so much, just seen too many posts lately of players saying they know everything about XYZ, but then ask question that if they actually knew XYZ they'd know the answer. There's is so much more to learning to be a musician than learning to play the instrument. One of the great things about learning to play Music is you never know it all there is alway something to learn.
