subject: Learn Guitar Scales and Improve Your Guitar Basics Significantly [print this page] Learn Guitar Scales and Improve Your Guitar Basics Significantly
For a beginner to learn guitar scales, it can be quite a unpleasant experience, yet they can help you improve your knowledge of chords, transpose keys, play lick and riffs and play lead guitar. If you ever want to write your very own music in the future, you will need to depend on those scales.
A scale is a series of musical notes that are played in sequence, from either low pitch to high or from high pitch to low. A scales can be made up of whole and half steps. A whole step is the distance between two notes, such as from F to a G note. A half step is just the distance between one note and the next.
There are many different types of guitar scales, for example, minor and major scales, altered scales, pentatonic scales and many more. All the scales have their own mavellous pattern of notes, which you will play in a specific order. This will produce distinct musical variation. As a beginner, you might want to try out the major and minor pentatonic scales.
You should commit your full efforts and target on only one specific scale first. Just keep practicing the same scale repeatedly. Once you feel that you have acquired the necessary skill level, then you can proceed with the next scale.
The pentatonic minor scale is a five note scale that is commonly found in many popular songs, specially in blues, classic rock, hard rock and more. This scale is fairly simple and you should start from here. You can search the internet for information on pentatonic minor scale.
Now let's talk about major pentatonic scale. You may feel that it is hard to understand major pentatonic. However, I assure you it is not as complex as you think. If you take any note of major and minor pentatonic scales, and study them carefully, you will observe that the scale patterns are nearly same. The difference in the scales is just a few frets away.
By learning scales, you will know how to play guitar licks and solos. In addition, when you play songs with the guitar, you can better grasp the rhythm and melody of the whole music. You might feel that learning scales is boring. However, if you work hard on this subject, the time you spent to learn guitar scales will definitely bring your guitar skill to a new height.
