Do you benefit from knowing the entire fretboard on the guitar?!
Question: If you spend time learning all the notes of the frets on the guitar does it help you improvise solos?
I play electric guitar and my biggest influences and hero is Angus Young of AC/DC. And I really want to be able to improvise like he does, if you check this link you will see what i mean:
Right now I know briefly where the blues scales for certain keys are on the fretboard but i couldn't name the notes of what frets I play. Does knowing them help with soloing and improvising?
Answers: If you spend time learning all the notes of the frets on the guitar does it help you improvise solos?
I play electric guitar and my biggest influences and hero is Angus Young of AC/DC. And I really want to be able to improvise like he does, if you check this link you will see what i mean:
Right now I know briefly where the blues scales for certain keys are on the fretboard but i couldn't name the notes of what frets I play. Does knowing them help with soloing and improvising?
You can not HELP but benefit from knowing your instrument inside and out.
If you know all the notes on the fretboard, you can stop playing scales, and stop being limited by them.
You can play the notes.
THere are no 'wrong' notes - only choices for tension, release, and context.
If you KNOW what notes you are looking to play, and what notes you want to come next, and what sounds you will dig, you will never need scales or theory again.
Learn all the scales. Learn all the theory. It is important to do so and it will be most fruitful for you.
WHen you have learned it all inside and out - forget it.
Play the notes you want.
And remember the most basic rule - if it sounds good, it *IS* good.
And that is a subjective thing.
yes you should learn it because if someone ask you to play a G#(sharp) you should know where the G#'s are on the guitar. Can you learn to play without know it, yes. But why not spend the half hour it takes to learn the the names of all the frets.
in essence, no, it wont help with soloing and improvising per se, but you do certainly benefit from knowing the entire fretboard, but moreso when you begin to (if you ever do at all) learn music theory. you will need to know what notes to play and what other notes go good with it.
If you were playing the piano, would you only play the black keys?
YES it helps because if your soloing over chords(which you are if its any songs with lyrics or anytype of rythem section)you need to know what root note to hit. So learn the notes you play.