Onion Slices

While practicing the guitar, I’ve found a level of peace that I really enjoy. I only know two songs that I can get into, to the point where I am happy, but I’m working on learning more.

One of the things that has prevented me from progressing as fast as I would like is my slacker-ish attitude when it comes to some of the basics, like sight reading. My teacher has gone over it, but I am more likely to learn the pattern of each measure, instead of what’s actually written on the page.

I remember that I seemed to do this quite often when I played in band in high school. The placement of the fingers and the sound of the instrument (and whole band) was much more what guided me in what I needed to be playing, rather than what was written on the page.

In the interest of working on this, I’ve gone out and started looking for some tools to help me on note recognition and BASIC music theory. Here is a link to a little game that I found (and below that the link to the parent site with more games) that helps with basic, intermediate or advanced note recognition.

Game:

http://pedaplus.com/flash/treblebeg.html

Parent Site:

http://pedaplus.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=7&Itemid=142

Since I’ve found that I can’t code my way out of a paper bag, I would gladly pay money to someone who can develop a game for my phone that will flash a note and then read the input of what I play on my acoustic guitar (similar to my phone-based tuner). Sort of like a “Math Blaster” for classical guitar!