globetrotterdk
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I have been struggling to learn to play the guitar for about a year now. Fortunately, it brought me back to my first love - the alto saxophone Unfortunately, this hasn't helped my guitar playing at all My problem has always been that because I can read notes and am accustomed to playing the melody, I find chords and rhythm guitar extremely boring. I realize their importance, so I am trying to fight this tendency by learning to play the notes and then learn the chords by note combinations.
As I know next to nothing about keyboards and chords, I find fretboard diagrams to be confusing, as there are a number of positions to play the same notes on a guitar. I am looking for a straight forward fingering chart for note readers. I assume this would be a tabulature. Unfortunately, the ones I have found don't seem to be systematic and work at the top end of the fretboard, but instead jump all over. Does anyone have any suggestions? A Spanish/classical guitar book/website they can recommend that covers this? Similar guides with the notes and tabs for major scales would be useful as well.
As I know next to nothing about keyboards and chords, I find fretboard diagrams to be confusing, as there are a number of positions to play the same notes on a guitar. I am looking for a straight forward fingering chart for note readers. I assume this would be a tabulature. Unfortunately, the ones I have found don't seem to be systematic and work at the top end of the fretboard, but instead jump all over. Does anyone have any suggestions? A Spanish/classical guitar book/website they can recommend that covers this? Similar guides with the notes and tabs for major scales would be useful as well.