That's a good idea for a video! My quick advice for memorizing notes on the fretboard would be to make sure you know the chromatic series: A A#/Bb B C C#/Db D D#/Eb E F F#/Gb G G#/Ab. You should be able to say that in your sleep before you worry about notes on the fretboard. Then pick one note (like G), there's only 6 strings. So there's 6 G's to memorize between open and 12th fret. Those G's are now islands on the fretboard that you know and you can use them to work out other notes with the chromatic series. With some diligent work you can start filling in more islands and landmarks around the fretboard. This works much better than trying to memorize notes by brute force and makes your understanding feel much more organic. For what notes sound good over what chords you should check out my video called something like "What Scales I Use For Bluegrass"!

@@LessonsWithMarcel thank you so much! That helps alot!

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Start by playing individual strings while holding the appropriate chord shape. Or slide up into one of those notes sometimes.

Yeah, I guess the simplest way to say it is that bluegrass is mostly written in 8th notes but felt in 16th notes. That being the case, people will sometimes argue about whether we should be saying four 8th notes or four 16th notes in a scenario like this. Okay, both sides of the argument. - Let's start with the 16th noters, Bass players play quarter notes (1 2 3 4), Guitar plays a boom chuck which would be 8th notes (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +), and banjos/ other soloists would feel 16th notes ( 1e+a 2e+a 3e+a 4e+a). It's a pretty simple practical approach and I think pretty close to what most of us feel in our heads. - The other perspective is that if we write the fastest playing as 8th notes (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +) things will be easier to understand on paper. That means boom chuck becomes (1 2 3 4) and the bass player becomes (1 3 ). But wouldn't this be slower? Not if we play it twice as fast (cut time)! This is why maybe you've seen a couple pickers argue over 8th notes versus 16th notes or 90bpms versus 180bpms. The music sounds the same and is performed the same to them, they're just arguing about the terms used to describe time. It's a silly debate, like "is cereal soup?" Don't think about it too hard. Hope that helps, if any of that is confusing definitely look online for resources about counting in music! Marcel

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