[quote name='Doddy' post='1117773' date='Feb 6 2011, 03:38 PM']Exactly-it's all about the context,the information is always the same.
The sad thing is there are a lot of people about who teach in this manner-and it does as disservice to the student.
It's easy to write a Tab showing a scale and move it about,but it doesn't actually show you anything. What are the notes? How do they relate to one another? What can you do with the scales? What other positions can you play them? On it's own the pattern is not going to do much good,if you don't know how to work with it. But it's easy to 'teach' and is a shortcut that misses out a lot of relevant information.These teachers,I feel,are the kind of teachers and players who generally get really offended by Jeff Berlin,because he's an advocate of studying and that there are no shortcuts,and therefor it leads to arguments that there are loads of other learning methods,when really there aren't.[/quote]
I agree and so does Branford.