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Are You Learning The Best Way To Play The Guitar? Here's Some Scales You Should Know

by Rick Hart

At the start learning to play guitar can be very threatening. You not only have to learn how to play chords but you also need to learn scales in order to be a respectable guitar strummer.

And those first few chords can be troublesome. Your hand does not go into the positions required naturally. It needs practicing and time to build the muscle memory to be well placed to get your fingers into those chord positions. But over time you can do it. It just takes a little bit of tenacity.

For many , learning scales is a bit easier. You are generally handling one finger on one place on the guitar fretboard, so it is a little simpler to do. And after you know one or two scales you can start jamming with some of your fave rhythm and blues or folk songs.

So learning scales is a good place to start learning guitar and get your fingers in shape at the very same time. Until you have some calluses on the end of your fingers it'll be hard to hold down those strings. And the only possible way to get those calluses is to practice. You know what they say... No pain no gain!

Scales Are Essentially Fairly Easy - It Is About Shapes

Learning scales to the point at which you are decent at it isn't that tough. There are "shapes" on that fretboard that you follow to grasp where to play the notes of any particular key. And after you learn these shapes you can just adjust your hand horizontally on the fretboard to play the scale in different keys. It's actually pretty cool how it works.

And there's different shapes for different scales. A major scale and a minor scale have different shapes... But only slightly. It's basically something that you can pick up quickly. A major scale "shape" and a minor scale "shape" for a similar key are actually exactly the same. They are just played on different parts of the neck. Once you've learned one you have learned them all.

What's The Best Way To Learn These Shapes

Once you see the shape it's pretty simple to comprehend. Describing them with words is a bit more complicated. Once you see a diagram of the shape, or perhaps better, watch a video of somebody playing the shape, it's something that you will pick up quickly and always remember.

And again these shapes can be applied to almost any kind of music. They are employed in rock and roll, country music, and blues music all the time. In fact a <a href="http://www.bluesguitarinsider.com/learn-to-play-blues-guitar/pentatonic-scales-for-blues-guitar">blues guitar scale</a> is almost precisely the same as a heavy metal scale that might be played in a punk rock band. That&#39;s why you see many older punk rockers getting into the blues later along in life. They begin to understand that the music is very similar. It's just a case of attitude... And maybe a little volume.

And there's a thing by the name of a pentatonic scale that is even simpler. It's called pentatonic because there's only 5 notes in the scale (penta means five). There is no need to use as many fingers in the scale and it's pretty quick to pickup (no joke intended). And these pentatonic major and minor scales are the foundation for rock, blues, country, death metal, funk, and virtually every type of popular music.

So get going learning those scales and start having some fun with whatever sort of music you like. Check out my internet site where I&#39;ve got some free guitar lessons and show you those shapes.



Rick Honeyboy Hart has played guitar for a number of years and is a professional blues guitarist. He's played in many bands over time and now helps others learn <a href="http://www.bluesguitarinsider.com/learn-to-play-blues-guitar/pentatonic-scales-for-blues-guitar">blues guitar scales</a> on his website <a href="http://www.bluesguitarinsider.com/">www.BluesGuitarInsider.com</a>

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