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What Are Scales On Guitar?

music theory Jan 07, 2021

What are scales on guitar? This is one question that a lot of people have is where do scales come from? Or what are musical scales? Hey guys, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com here with another guitar lesson for beginners on what are scales in music. When you break it down, scales really are really just simple patterns & in today's guitar tutorial I'm going to show you how that pattern works for the major scale. Now, the major scale is the basis for all of western music & home base for everything in music theory so getting this down first & understanding it will really help you out & make learning guitar easier.

Whether you're playing acoustic guitar or electric guitar, these scales are all the same on every guitar in standard tuning. But when learning how to play scales on guitar, most people just look at the scale as a collection or block of notes & don't get behind why they work or where it comes from. But understanding that makes learning how to play guitar better.

Check out the video on notes on the guitar here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swnAP2IsvtU

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A lot of the advice on what to do when you start learning guitar comes from the thinking "That's how I learned, so everyone must learn that way", but that isn't always the best advice.

I'll help you with 10 kinda counter-intuitive things you should learn on guitar first that will give you the most bang for your buck so that you can go from being a beginner to feeling like a confident guitar player that wows your friends in less time.