What’s up my guitar friends, Darrin Goodman here with another little guitar lesson for ya’, today I want to talk about guitar scales and modes. This is a really big subject and obviously to big for just this short article to be able to cover everything; you could write a book about it and still
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
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
Whether you’re a beginning bass player or a beginning guitar player, scales are extremely important and necessary for you to expand your abilities and take on new challenges. And for any bass player, they should be an integral part of your practice schedule. Below, we’re going to show you some Beginner Bass Guitar Scales. There
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
Country music has a long-standing love affair with the blues. A good many of the greatest country songs written have been influenced by the blues in some way, which isn’t surprising when you consider how closely the two genres are related. Country music can be complex in its simplicity, with the major, the pentatonic, and
A guitar scale is a scale specifically laid out for guitar. Scales for the guitar are the same as they are for any other musical instrument as far as the notes they encompass, but when a musician thinks of a scale as a guitar scale, he is most likely thinking about the specific pattern of
A major scale is a scale that uses this whole/half step pattern: W-W-H-W-W-W-H. Adding another whole step to this pattern will bring you to the octave of the root (starting) note. If you start on any note and apply this step pattern, you’ll find the notes in the major key named after your starting note
