Learn Major Guitar Scales
Major guitar scales are the basis of lead guitar playing and are essential for learning all the other scales. Once you learn the major scale pattern you will have taken the first step on the road to lead guitar mastery. The musical alphabet is made up of the first 7 letters of the normal alphabet. Each of the letters represents a distinct pitch. The difference between each pitch is called an interval. The smallest interval between one note and the next is called 1 half...
Read More...Learn To Read Major and Minor Guitar Scale Box Diagrams
Guitar scale boxes are a useful way to represent all the information you need to know about a scale on one easy to read diagram. The horizontal lines on the box diagrams represent frets and the vertical lines represent strings. The vertical line furthest to the left is the Low E string. The vertical line second from the left is the A string and so on. This scale shape is movable up and down the guitar neck, similar to the way a barre chord can be moved. The...
Read More...Learn The Basics of Minor Guitar Scales
For every major guitar scale there is a minor scale. While major scales are all upbeat positive happy-go-lucky type affairs, minor scales have a dour sad type of sound. There are several different types of major scale, but the one you will learn about here is the natural minor scale. Here is the pattern that you can use to play every major and minor scale. Full Tone - Full Tone - Half Tone - Full Tone - Full Tone - Full Tone - Half Tone Begin on Middle C (5th...
Read More...How To Play The 3 Most Important Scales For Any Blues Guitarist
Understanding blues guitar scales is really important to make your tunes sounds like the blues. Luckily blues guitar scales are fairly easy. The emphasis is placed on phrasing and expressive techniques rather than a wide variety of guitar scales and mode usage. Just using the minor pentatonic, major pentatonic, and a variation of the minor pentatonic called the blues scale, is more than enough for most blues players. More scales and modes are used, but these basic ones...
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