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The Best Way to Learn Scales on Guitar

music theory Jul 15, 2021

The best way to learn scales on guitar is not to just print off scales from the internet and play them. Welcome to today's guitar lesson for beginners guys, I'm Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com with another beginner guitar lesson that will help you actually understand what is going on with the scales you learn. Today we're going to take the A Minor Pentatonic scale, the first scale most guitar players learn, & break it down to show you why there are 5 different pentatonic scale positions all across the neck. We're going to start by finding out what the notes of the scale are, then we're going go in a 2 notes per string pattern walking through the notes of the scale until we find 2 notes on each string. When we're all done with this, you'll see WHY we have different scale positions for one scale & then you can use this same method to help you better understand ANY scale.
 
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Chapters:
0:00 - The best way to learn scales on guitar introduction
2:21 - How we're going to find the notes of the scale to learn scales on guitar better
4:51 - Finding Pentatonic scale posiition 1
8:51 - Finding pentatonic scale position 2
11:45 - Finding pentatonic scale position 3
13:59 - Finding pentatonic scale position 4
16:09 - Finding pentatonic scale position 5
17:39 - Guitar scales explained practice tips
20:49 - How to learn guitar scales review
22:32 - My gift for you for learning about the best way to learn scales on guitar
 
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