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First off, I’ve never been one to recommend overdoing it with scales. There’s certainly nothing wrong with learning scales, but just the mention of a scale is enough to turn beginning guitar players away. Nobody picks up the guitar to play scales. We pick it up to jam, to play songs, to do what it …
All Guitar scales are the same as any other scale. They use the same notes as other scales and the application is the same as with any other instrument. Just the mention of scales is enough to send some guitar players into a state of panic. Many guitarists play by ear and claim to want …
Jazz Scales Guitar is an advanced genre of music that requires more focus and a better understanding of music theory than other music genres. A good jazz guitar player understands the value of ear training, chord and scale theory, and how to improvise. These are all areas of study an aspiring jazz guitarist will pursue. Lessons …
Hey, music fans! What’s the word for today? Well, the word is: GUITAR MAJOR SCALE! Woop woop! (Sorry to get all dorky on you but major scales do rock, don’t they?!) CMC here with another mini-journey to your guitar greatness. So take a minute,pull up a chair and take a look. Nothing earth shattering here …
Hey Bluesmen and women! Wasssup? CMC here-today’s mini-shot of Blues Espresso is about blues scales guitar. You’ll find tons of stuff about this all over the net and our pros right here at Guitar Control have some great teaching tools you should check out as well. It’s amazing to me how they’ve assembled such a …
Greetings guitar enthusiasts, Darrin Goodman here with another little mini guitar lesson for you, today I want to talk about guitar pentatonic scales. The pentatonic scale is a five note musical scale that consists of the following intervals; perfect first, minor third, perfect fourth, perfect fifth and minor seventh. These scales are used in many …
What up guitar fans, Darrin Goodman here with another little guitar lesson for ya’, today I will be talking about exotic guitar scales What makes an exotic guitar scale is a loaded question and depends on where you are coming from as to what “exotic” means, but if you are in the western world like …
Hey y’all, it’s Crawford Smith here with a lesson on jazz soloing. Today we’re going to take a look at the bebop scale. This scale, which was invented by Charlie Parker and other bebop pioneers but named by the author David Baker, is a variant on the mixolydian mode. It’s a great scale to have …
The Blues Scale Guitar is a musical form that almost every guitar player is familiar with whether he knows it or not. The blues has been around since at least the end of the 19th century and has been used in every genre of music from blues to rock to country. Regardless of the musical …
Check out this free lesson from Guitar Control “Learn How To Play The Chromatic Scale on guitar” with free guitar tabs. Guitar Scale For the beginning and intermediate student learning guitar scales, you may be facing a confusing and daunting task. At the outset, you have to ask yourself, why do I want to learn …