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Unison Note Finder (Patreon)

Published:
2022-07-05 22:36:50
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2022-08-12 22:33:06
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Hi Everyone,

This is a little one-off lesson I've been thinking about doing for a long time. Stringed instruments are weird, and guitar is no exception. One weird thing about stringed instruments is that many duplicate or "unison" notes can be found all over the fingerboard. In other words, you can play the exact same chord or scale or riff in multiple places. These tones are not different octaves, they are the same frequency.

I've attached two PDFs, one is a detailed, high color, printer-unfriendly recap of this lesson with a few examples. The other PDF is unison-finder scratch paper with subtle colors that are (hopefully) more printer friendly for those of you who want to print.

Here are a few questions for the community to ponder and discuss in the comments below or in the community forum: If your fingers are already comfortable, would there be any musical reason to play the same phrase or chord on different strings? Have you found that you prefer voicings on any particular set of strings, like strings 2, 3, & 4 or 4, 5, & 6? Is there a specific situation where you've used this unison note finder method to make something easier or better sounding?

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Comments

Holly Croydon

Excellent! I'm super visual. Seeing the notes light up all over as you play fires off new connections and understandings in my brain. I can see the exact same information a million times on a piece of paper and kinda sorta get it, but watching you play and the notes lighting in real time is the bomb! Camera Guitar is looking so good! I'm looking forward to your invention making you rich and famous. Your humble students will be able to say we knew you when... ;) Great lesson, thank you, Scott. I hope Cali is treating you well.

Ethan B

Given your answer to Q4, it may be helpful to include Unison in Music Theory for Guitar, Lesson 3, Intervals, because the PDF shows, in a complete manner, how the strings are fretted to the perfect 4th or major 3rd. I have a fifth and sixth question outstanding above, however now I have a Seventh. I've been following the lesson plan, I'm about to finish CAGED Basics I. My goal is only to solo (over your jam tracks), not to write music, not to write chord progressions. Do I complete the lesson plan as written then go to CAGED Basics II and New Soloing, or do I depart from the lesson plan, adjoin the new sections, then revert back to and continue on the lesson plan?

Scott Paul Johnson
>>87202924

Hey Ethan - I fixed the PDF for this lesson. I've been planning to do an overhaul of my entire Music Theory for Guitar series, so I'll consider adding Unison to the lesson as well. As for lessons regarding each of the 7 chords in a key within the CAGED System, my CAGED Soloing series goes through that kind of thing. If your goal is to only solo, feel free to move through CAGED Basics, Basics II, and NEW Caged Soloing, then head back through the original CAGED Soloing series while you're waiting for me to complete NEW CAGED Soloing.