The hardest notes to find on the guitar fretboard

Re:The hardest notes to find on the guitar fretboard by jawilson2 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @08:23AM (#50466725)

I've played guitar for over 30 years now, and it is 100% geometry to me, or Tetris pieces. A D chord is a triangle, A chord is a line, a minor barre chord with a root on the 2nd string is stair steps, etc.

One of the things that is bittersweet about learning a song is that it can take the magic out of the song; instead of just hearing it, I am thinking in chord shapes, positions, lead lines, etc.

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Re:The hardest notes to find on the guitar fretboard by scarecrowbob on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:06AM (#50468567)

I've got multiple ways of listening.

I can't even Phish because if I'm on drugs I fall into listening-like-I-need-to-play-the-next-chord. Whereas a lot of songwriter music I can listen-like-I'm-reading-underegrad-poetry

I do feel that way about tetris, too. I think the reason I enjoy older jazz standards on bass is playing them is a little like solving a suduko- I can get a satisfying answer without much more than the melody. That doesn't work for modern rock where the riff is key. That kind of "well, it sounds okay but it doesn't line up with my idea of what makes sense" is my own anti-magical-feeling.

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