Sunday, October 25, 2009

"How Would Your Guitar Soloing Improve If You Discovered Exactly How To Play Guitar Scales Over The Entire Fretboard In A Fluid, Musical And Effortles

Very few scale learning methods focus on all five of the essential mastery skills that lead to complete scale mastery...

Most scale learning "methods" will give you a whole bunch of scale fingerings. Then they show you some licks. Maybe they even give you a few backing tracks. Then they leave you to it! This does not work for most people. It only works for the most talented guitar players out there. Most of us need some extra help!

So what are the five essential mastery skills? Please check out the diagram below...



Please take a couple of minutes to look at it. What do you think it means? Let's take a closer look now...

EARS: Mastering this skill means that you have totally internalized the sound of the scale. You know exactly what each note of the scale sounds like.

EYES: This is your ability to visualize the scale over the entire fretboard. With this ability you do not have to think in terms of scale patterns. You can see all the notes of the scale everywhere without having to think.

FINGERS: This is your technique. It is your ability to actually physically play the scale anywhere on your fretboard. You can play the scale starting from any note, any position and any string.

INTELLECT: This is your theoretical understanding of the scale. At the very least you should understand three main things.

What notes are in the scale.
What scale degrees are in the scale.
Where the scale can be used.
APPLICATIONS: This is your ability to actually use the scale in a musical way.

So what does all this mean?

If you are lacking in even one area…you don't really know the scale fully. It has not yet been internalized. This means that improvising using the scale in a musical way is challenging, (if not impossible)!



And the scary thing is...

Very few scale learning methods out there help you learn the five essential mastery skills in an organised and structured way! They make it way too hard and frustrating for you...

They overwhelm you with ridiculous amounts of scale fingerings to learn.
They tell you to memorize the scale fingerings but don't actually show you how.
They tell you to learn things in all 12 keys. (This advice is often B.S. and quickly leads to overwhelm for most people).
They get you to move onto new scales well before you have mastered the old ones.
They tell you "what to learn", but don't actually tell you "how to learn" it.
You get the idea. They are throwing "learning hurdles" in your way which slows down your progress. That really sucks!

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