The Most Awesome Way to Practice Scales on Guitar

Hey guys in this fingerpicking lesson I am going to show you one of the most awesome way to practice scales on acoustic guitar.

The secret is to really create a musical idea you really look forward practicing and playing. The more musical the scale sounds the more you will want to practice it!

Scales are a really important aspect of your daily routine. If you practice scales correctly, there is no doubt your technique will improve drastically!

So here you have it!

Check this awesome way to practice scales on guitar.

Good luck.

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Scales on Guitar

A scale is a progression of note arranged in ascending order. The notes, also called pitches span an octave.

One of the first thing you should learn when start practicing scales on guitar is the half and whole steps pattern that build the scale. By learning the scale’s interval you will be able to understand, transpose and learn all the major scale in any key.

You will find scales on guitar to be a little bit challenging to play at the beginning. It is true that with an instrument such as the piano it is easier to learn the notes of the scale as we can visualize the notes on they key. With the guitar is a little bit more challenging.

In this Fingerpicking Lesson

Today we are going to learn how to play the E major scale in three different ways.

Up and down the neck.
On one string
With a technique called “Pedal tone”.

Notice that the exercise sounds really musical so it should be fun to learn and practice.

Scales up and Down the Neck

In the first example I am going to show you how to play scales on guitar up and down the neck.

In this particular exercise the E major scale is played in five different boxes and different fingerings in a descending order. The speed in BPM is 100.

Let me show you the E major scale played throughout the entire neck. You can easily realize how many patterns and boxes you can create!