problems with beginner student - any advice?

[Eric***]

What are these notes you speak of? I have played for well over two decades and made countless songs and recordings, and I'd not be able to find any notes on the fretboard save the spots where the main open chords start and open strings. I just have feelings about around where approximately it sounds good to play. I use a lot of freaky Barre chords, sus something seven nine whatever, I have no clue what they are but that they sound cool and if I play a few inches from the middle fret over them that makes a nice sound. Notes are over-appreciated imo. Studied music in a music school for almost two years, never really understood how does notation work. It's like an insane system, why can't they just use letters and numbers instead of those stupid boingy dots that correspond to nothing and you need a ruler to count how far from the baseline c note each is. Pfft. That's just bull.

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Either this is heavy sarcasm or 85% of the way through a 6-pack, huh? Nice to see you around again, Dee. I'm going to go post in one of your old threads now that I know you're at least checking here periodically.

[deeaa*]

No, Eric, honesly I am clueless about notation and such. It's just gibberish to me, but on vocal notes they do help to remember/understand the melody in a graphic fashion. Other than that...I just never had a need to learn them, and it always seemed impossibly hard anyway.

Btw good to be here again :-)

[Eric***]

No, Eric, honesly I am clueless about notation and such. It's just gibberish to me, but on vocal notes they do help to remember/understand the melody in a graphic fashion. Other than that...I just never had a need to learn them, and it always seemed impossibly hard anyway.

Btw good to be here again :-)

Well then, I apologize. I didn't mean to put you down or anything; I guess your "What are these notes you speak of?" got me thinking you were joking.

I wish I had the instinct you have about music. I'm closer to that than I was, but it's the result of learning scales and arpeggios and what not. I feel that the instinctive creation of music is more meaningful, so I like it a lot -- I just don't seem to have that in me, even if I am not incompetent from an instrument standpoint.