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Stop Memorizing. Start Visualizing. 🪓 | The Hatchet Method
One of the most powerful tools humans have for learning is abstract thinking, the ability to connect something unfamiliar to something we already recognize. So why not use it to learn the guitar?
The Hatchet Method is just a silly visual trick I use with some of my students to help them see how intervals connect across the fretboard.
Is there actually a hatchet hiding in your guitar? Obviously not. 😂 It could be a flag, a mailbox, or anything else your brain recognizes. The picture doesn’t matter. The connection does.
There’s even an emotional association built into it. 🪓
What’s the happiest place to grab a hatchet? The handle! 😂 That’s the safe end, so I associate that orientation with the brighter, “happy” sound we commonly associate with major.
What’s the saddest place to grab a hatchet? The blade. That’s going to be a bad day. 😂 So I associate that orientation with the darker, “sad” sound we commonly associate with minor.
Obviously, major doesn’t always mean happy and minor doesn’t always mean sad. That’s not the point. The point is association.
Your brain is incredibly good at remembering pictures, emotions, stories, shapes, and relationships. So use them! Be creative. Make up your own associations if mine don’t work for you.
There’s no correct way to visualize the fretboard. There’s only what helps YOU see it.
🪓 Stop memorizing. Start visualizing.
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