Among the many gaps in my playing ability is knowing the individual note names and incorporating those into my playing vs. just hitting the familiar patterns that I know work. An example will be when I'm playing with a friend and we'll both be noodling on a G pentatonic scale and he'll say something like, 'try sliding into the 3rd.' As I began to realize that this wasn't a baseball analogy but suggesting that I slide into the 3rd note of the scale, I realized that I had to do a lot of thinking ot know which one was the 3rd note of the scale. I had just memorized the pattern of the pentatonic and hit the notes in that pattern.
My question is, as you are going through exercises like the Super FFcP, do you go through the note names as you're learning the patterns or just the patterns? For example, do you say, G#, A#, C, C#, D#....or do you go through and memorize the patterns and then just move those patterns around the fretboard (as is one of the goals of FFcP)?
(For those people who will inevitably ask, 'What's the FFcP?' It can be found here http://www.jazzmando.com/ffcp.shtml
Thanks for the feedback.
Jason
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