I kept my challenge. I wrote. I keep that for myself, it is too personal and involves other person. I dont want to expose her things too much. She is my daughter, naturally intertwined with my life and there are and will be mentions of course. But my writing this day stays with me.
For myself I still made this post. It is part of my consistency “practice” and a record that I am doing my best.
May 2nd
Second day. Few min after I woke up and had a cold shower, I remembered this challenge. Ups, was the first reaction. As I tend often to change feelings and mind after I write or produce something, be it text, post or video, sort of dont like it anymore, the similar feeling came back again. I know now, that I am not the only one having these “issues”…somehow it is actually quite a common thing.
The thought of giving up showed already. Waw.
Then I went to check what happened with other people. There were posts, and also some reactions to mine post. I checked the document where we are supposed to make an x when we wrote. Maybe 15 names were there, and half of them made x.
Now this is truly interesting and shows how being in touch, and also feeling accountable influence our behaviour.
I saw a “story” of girls, who have it or had it hard. Physically and mentally. It connected me to them. Strangers on the internet, with minimally two things in common (the writing challenge and the creator part) suddenly feel like acquaintances. I can relate/feel the pain and the strength. And somehow that motivated me to put the alarm on, make a coffee in two caps to not stop writing :) and here I am.
As I seen that actually only half of the people made an x to mark their success, strangely that empowered me too. Not the fact that they “did not succeed” but the fact that it’s so easy to not do it, and again, I am not the only one struggling with it. It made me want to sit and do it. Edit! Almost all x are there now – its the different time zones!!! While I am waking up, many are ending their days :))
After I typed the first few lines, I felt the sensation of purpose. Some sort of directed focus on something. I like that. Because it can feel overwhelming, when there is so much to do and one lacks the clarity and also the time.
There is 6 min left for this writing block. So Misha, what did you learn, how did this help you?
One thing I realized already yesterday, my vocabulary is rusty, my brain got soggy.
I live isolated and enclosed in our bubble – and it has a huge effect on living and expressing.
Luckily, the change of environment is very close and I will start reading at least a few min a day, no matter the circumstances. Because this expressing barrier has to change. And it will, that I know 🙂
I learned / realized that having people around makes change in behaviour. Ofcourse, one hears it, knows it, but to experience it and react to it and being aware of it, all at once, does actually enter somewhere and makes an impact.
I learned how time passes differently, when there is a constraint. Just now I moved the alarm for extra 10 min, just to be able to somewhat finish the last thoughts.
I see how becoming a little content with myself and connected to someone immediately makes me want to give. I have this Number Sonics thingie….making melodies/tunes from name.
And as I feel gratitude for this writing challenge, the urge to make one for Laura Hanna, the initiator of it, its surfacing.
Edit, an hour later I have the tune worked out and have good 20 min of playing the guitar.
My girls just woke up. I am setting up intention to have a good day, to stay in my center, focus on my heart and thoughts, stay coherent and in the now as much as possible.
I am already excited to sit here tomorrow and write again…
May 1st
By “accident” I will participate in 31 day writing challenge.
How can something like this happen by accident?
There is this alliance/community of people, who are or are trying to become creators. Content creators. And a few days ago a girl made a post that she is starting this challenge, inviting others to join.
I sat there, reading it, thinking about it, considering. I tend to jump on things, like to support people in their endeavors, show up. Knowing the writing challenge would be beneficial to me, of course. Then I decided that I can not commit, in the life situation I am in at the moment.
A few days later, there were 4 votes on the post – and I got curious who joined. I clicked it, and there it was. Misha Pelt was one of the 4. Heh? How can that be? I am 99% sure I did not press the I am in option. What happened?
So I sat there, over the post, staring at it. And then I DID NOT write that it was a mistake. I thought, well the universe wants me to do it.
So here I am, on my first day, writing.
How I will go around, not sure … .What is the desired outcome?
There are several. The objective they have in common is to improve. My life, myself, possibly gain clarity, move with the things that occupy my head for years … .regarding the Guitar Syntax and Number Sonics. The Journey.
Break through.
Coincidentally, this day and month actually marks lots of changes.
Yesterday one of my daughters came back after 2and half months. The other did not overeat for the first time in a few weeks. In a few days we are leaving for Croatia, for the third time, to spend summer there. Work away – exchanging our energy for the possibility to stay next to the sea.
They both will start hypnotherapy to help them overcome anorexia and connected issues.
I have nearly no money, will be paid in July and August, few hundred euro. I worry of course, but we are going anyway. I believe something will happen. It always does.
And maybe, this writing challenge is going to be the knife that will curve the way forward.
There is something inside me that always finds its way to the light. Some force. Something that keeps me above the water. An outsider often wonders….
I think it maybe is a hope. But I am not sure.
So to summarize it for myself, what I will write, how I will go forward with this?
Part of this will be journaling. I know how powerful it is, but I never do it.
Part will be storytelling.
Part will be pondering about the past present and future – getting clear on lessons, falls and rises.
Part will be moving forward with my work.
And as the days will go, and if I – as I – will keep showing up in easy and hard days – there will naturally come – Empowerment .
And now the alarm announced the end. Waw.
Most guitar players don’t struggle because they lack passion or practice. They struggle because the fretboard feels like a bunch of disconnected “areas” that only make sense in small boxes. You learn a scale shape here, a chord grip there, and you get results—but only in the narrow lane that pattern lives in. There is another way.
Specifically, the numbers 1–7 represent intervals—the real building blocks behind scales, chords, and harmony. Instead of thinking “this is a random shape,” you start thinking “this note is the 1, this one is the 3, this one is the 5,” and so on. Once you assign a key note as number 1, that 1 becomes the leader—the tonal centre that everything else relates to.
The major scale isn’t just another scale to memorize; it’s the foundation of western harmony, and it’s the cleanest place to understand how the numbers behave. With the 1–7 system in your hands, the major scale stops being a pattern and becomes a map: a clear layout of intervals that you can place anywhere on the neck.
Instead of treating modes like seven separate mysteries, the E-System approach is straightforward: the same system, just start from a different number. You’re not learning a new universe each time—you’re rotating the perspective while keeping the same underlying logic. That’s where the fretboard starts feeling less like memorized “positions” and more like one flexible environment.
A key idea here is that there are only five major chord shapes, and those shapes come straight out of the major scale applied across the strings. But the bigger unlock is what you do with them: you don’t just collect shapes—you understand what’s inside them.
When you see a chord shape as a structure built around a “5-1-3 nucleus,” you can start modifying that core to create a huge range of chords without starting from scratch every time. You’re not hunting for brand-new grips; you’re customizing a known structure with purpose.
Even better, the major scale naturally gives you the core chord types you’ll run into again and again: major, minor, dominant 7, and m7b5. Instead of learning these as isolated formulas, you see them as things that already exist inside the scale’s harmonic world. That makes chord construction feel less like theory homework and more like common sense on the neck.
This is why learning the E-System matters. First, it takes you beyond the box—so you’re not stuck playing the same idea in the same spot. Second, it builds real chord understanding, so you can create and explore instead of only repeating what you’ve memorized. Third, it opens up modes in a way that leads to more interesting and nuanced melodies. And maybe most importantly, it brings simplicity: fewer random finger positions, more context and meaning.
The E-System is also “guitar-oriented theory.” It’s not piano theory awkwardly pasted onto the fretboard. It respects the nature of the guitar and uses a perspective that fits how the instrument is actually laid out. The result is flexibility: a small set of foundational concepts that can produce an extensive array of chords and melodic options.
If the E-System gives you the building blocks, Guitar Syntax explains how those blocks interact on the guitar itself. It’s a set of rules that forms practical relationships between string names, the five basic chord shapes, the four chord types, and the seven interval numbers.
Think of Guitar Syntax as the language of the fretboard. When you understand the language, you can navigate with ease and precision instead of guessing. You can move across the entire neck and know what chord belongs where according to diatonic harmony. That’s the moment where the guitar stops feeling like a collection of tricks and starts feeling like a system you can actually speak.
Put together, the promise of the E-System and Guitar Syntax is simple: unlock the fretboard, connect the dots, and get out of boxes. You start constructing instead of memorizing. You gain clarity, and that clarity gives you the freedom to improvise, compose, create, and explore.
There is Guitar Syntax community on skool platform, where I teach this. You are welcome to join us.
This is older videos, explaining major scale from zero. We go through naming tones – music alphabet, learning # and b, finding out what is chromatic scale and how we construct major scale from it.
The videos are screencast, detailed, focused to explain the concept clearly, so you have a solid understanding how to create major scale from any tone, easily.
We use numbers 1 – 7, and their distance to each other as container for the tones, so you are learning principal. the how – to, not just a pattern.
|t starts with Major Scale. But we use numeric values of intervals to see and use it.
To clarify, we are seeing the guitar fretboard like we would look at it when holding and paying the guitar, watching out left hand. So the bass E string we see as the first.
You can see on the image, half step is just the next fret, whole step is when we skip a fret.
In major scale, we have 2 half step intervals, using numeric values, there are between number 3 and 4, and between number 7 and 1.
This is screencast tutorial teaching to put major scale across all the strings.
In this video you will basically see the pillars of the system. That is the path leading to freedom over the neck. Most people smash this with the thought, yeah, I am beyond that, its too basic. It is, and it is not. Great ideas are simple. Most people knowing the 5 basic chord does not use them to their full potential. Unlocking the fretboard requires you to go back to basics, and see it with a different lens.