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Learn Guitar Scales: Be A Better Musician
There has to be a reason to learn guitar scales. If all you want to do is strum along behind some folk song, then you can skip the scales. But, if you have any desire to really play the guitar then you need scales. You need them for the long term, not just as some sort of rite of passage. Scales rock and they also jazz, swing and samba.
Scales are the universal language of music. It makes no difference if the music is classical, pop, rock, grunge or whatever. There is a scale involved. These sets of notes are the same for almost all instruments. When you see a jam session where everyone is somehow magically in the groove, they know scales.
Knowing scales really well is basic to earning your chops. Earning your chops means you have arrived. The sooner you get those scales into your fingers and your head, the sooner you will be in demand. Short, daily sessions are pretty much the only way to get really good with scales. Long intermittent practice will only get you frustrated. Ask any really good musician. It is too easy to lose focus after about ten or fifteen minutes.
It is possible that Carnegie Hall is not your ultimate goal, but getting every possible note that can be played on a guitar into your fingers, probably is. This kind of practice, short and focused will give you flexibility and control of your instrument. This kind of practice is also a long term project. Really great musicians never give up scales. The sessions are short and the payoff is huge.
It is a good idea to begin all of your practice sessions with at least one scale. One scale may be all you know at first. You will warm up your fingers and get your brain into music mode. Be alert. Mindless scales are what you want to avoid by using the short time span.
Now and then play a scale while listening to each note for tone quality. You also might try the whole scale for accuracy while concentrating on relaxing. That is also hard to accomplish. But stay involved with whichever one you have chosen. Mindless practice is a waste of your time.
What you will probably discover if you use the steps suggested is that you are out of time before you finish. Stop anyway. That is right. Just get on to whatever piece or song you are working on. It will take months or years to learn every one of these collections of notes before you have them right where you can find them. Longer session really will not help hasten that time.
Remember, the reason you are spending your precious time to learn guitar scales is reach that place where music flows from your fingers with ease. The guitarist that has the range of flexibility that knowing those scales provides is always in demand. And you can be that guitarist. It just takes a little time, every day.
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