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Re the actual question I'm a bit of everything. I think in intervals and shapes more than anything else, I guess.
Intervals are something which is quite closely related to patterns. Also once you get more familiar with what actual notes are what, it becomes easier to relate notes to intervals to patterns so it ceases to become "notes OR intervals OR patterns" and you eventually have a thought process where you might be using a bit of one, a bit of another etc but fluidly interchange instead of thinking rigidly in one or another way.
If you play with other musicians then obviously "notes" are going to be a common way of talking. And if you read music, then obviously "notes" need to be familiar and important.
Off topic but weird stuff can start happening if you play with other instruments especially if they are transposing, or wind instruments. I remember a while back playing bass guitar in a wind band, the bass part split into two parts (it was the same rhythm, just a bunch of octaves and fifths) and the conductor simply couldn't get his head round the fact that when it did this, I simply played double stopped notes to play as written, the two notes at the same time. He rigidly assumed I'd be totally unable to do this and would be forced to pick one or another line to play.
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Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
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A mix of all three I guess. Played patterns exclusively when I started playing but now use intervals to add colour to scales/arpeggios. Notes less so but I need to know what key the pattern is in and what the note is to work out the intervals from there.
Edit - and it all sounds terrible!
Also i'm running riot with relative major and minor scales (Thanks Phil X !!!).
I barely understand intervals yet but it's coming in slowly.
Right now i am buzzing every time i pick the guitar up and being able to play all the way up and down the neck.
That and trying to play Iron Maiden songs, currently 'Dance of death' and 'Brighter than a thousand suns'.
and watching endless tuition videos and constantly listening to the music i want to play on my iphone through waking hours and reading every bit of music theory i can find, whether i understand it or not.
That's about it so far. Roughly 3 hours a day playing, 3 hours looking at stuff shaking my head and occasionally leaping up, Whooping out loud (Which SO should be text speak - WOL) when i get something and then realise upon landing that i'm actually quite ill and that leap wasn't such a good idea.
Oh and headbanging.
THAT is essential.
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/61134/sarge/p1
These days we have people who can play Malmsteen licks but they don't even know what key they are playing in..... it's musically illiterate and its caused by people more desperate for the youtube views than their want to actually teach something of substance
Ultimately I ideally a well rounded musician would be comfortable using both approaches, I always take the Usain Bolt method, he's got a legion of trainers and nutritionists helping him behind the scenes, evaluating his training and diet, perfects every nuance of his technique, but when it comes to race day, it's just head down and go for it!!!!