Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Learn Guitar Scales For Lead Guitar Mastery

By Nick Dillon


It is crucial to learn guitar scales as it provides a solid framework for any lead or rhythm guitar player. The notes contained in scales are essentially the most basic components in which music is constructed around. By understanding and applying even a few scales, your skills as a guitar player will improve dramatically.

Certain scales will help create a sense of mood with your music. In fact, choosing the right scale will help you define a certain sound or genre as well as the mood. Guitar scales are the essential foundations to lead guitar playing or soloing.

Have you noticed how some music makes you feel bright and happy and other songs may make you feel sad or blue? Scales affect the mood in music. For example sad songs may use the minor scale to create the feeling of sadness. In the same way, to create a bright and happy feeling to a piece of music, the major scale would often be used. When creating or listening to music, it is important to understand that the notes contained in the piece come from a certain scales or scales and this will influence the mood of the music.

Knowing guitar scales is critical for lead guitar playing. To solo with the guitar and sound good, it is important to know exactly which notes will work and which ones will sound the best. By matching the scale to the backing music, this can easily be accomplished. Once the scale patterns and note placements become familiar, soloing becomes an effortless task.

If you are interested in a certain genre of music, learning guitar scales will allow you to fully explore and re-create a specific sound. If we take the blues for example, we find that in order to play the blues well, we must first be familiar with the pentatonic and blues scales.

Perhaps you're interested in a very specialised sound with your guitar playing such as Spanish or flamenco guitar - there are scales that will give you the exact flavour to any type of music that you're into. The point here is that you don't need to know every scale that exists for guitar. Start by learning only the scales that are commonly used for the genre of music that you're interested in.

When learning guitar scales it is important not to view the learning process as a boring and difficult exercise. To learn guitar scales in a musical context, for example with a backing track, the learning process can be fun and often creative. You don't have to learn scales in a boring repetitive, robotic manner!




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