Guitar Scale Exercises - Improve Your Speed, Strength & Timing To make the most effective use of the guitar scale exercises in this series, use them in conjunction with the timing elements introduced in thetiming series.
That means using quarter, eighth and sixteenth notes and gradually increasing the BPM on your metronome (I recommend increments of 5 BPM). Have patience and discipline with it and you'll soon notice dramatic improvements in your ability to navigate scales in a fluid way.
Note that the exercises in this series are a general guide and can be applied to any scale you learn. However, for any examples, I'll be using the major scale.
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The important thing is you come out of this lesson with a clear process for building your own effective guitar scale exercises rather than relying on tabs being thrown in front of you for every single scale (although there will be separate scale exercise lessons to give you some ideas!). In other words, look at these exercises as patterns rather than specific notes.
Tip: These exercises are great for warming up. Spend around 10 minutes before each practice session combining the techniques below for your chosen scale (e.g. a scale you're currently learning).
Guitar Scale Exercises Set #1 - Runs Scale runs are simply where you ascend up or descend down a scale pattern inrepetitive, linear and staggered movements. Think of runs as playing a given scale in straight sequence (e.g. note 1 up to 7 or 7 down to 1) but with interruptions or set backs to make them sound more interesting.
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Exercise 1 In the sequence below, each number represents a degree of a 7 note scale (most scales have 7 notes, with 1 being the root). This is how a 4 steps forward, 2 steps back run would play out...
Using the C major scale as an example, I could apply this run sequence to its 1st position boxed pattern as follows...
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Runs can also be played across wider patterns, but start with thebox and 3-notes-per-string patterns and gradually expand to cover more of the fretboard.
Tip: Try occassionally repeating sections of the run based on string pairings. You don't always have to run up/down the entire pattern.
Remember also that you don't always have to start on the root (1) note of the scale. Once you've learned the sequence, try starting the run pattern on each note of the scale. Test yourself and be spontaneous!
Guitar Scales Chart
Exercise 10 You can also play longer, more elaborate runs. This pattern is specifically designed for 3-notes-per-string scale patterns as it would typically involve legato playing (hammer-ons and pull-offs).
Exercise 11 This exercise is also designed for 3-notes-per-string scale patterns as you play two 3-note triplets on each string, ascending or descending through the scale pattern. Remember, the numbers represent the scale degrees and can be applied to any scale. It's the sequence, the movement between the scale's degrees we're looking at here...
Exercise 13 How about interrupting these triplets a bit more with a further step back at the end of every 2nd triplet? Arrgh! More to think about...
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The next few guitar scale exercises involve skipped notes in the run sequence. This means when moving forward or back, we jump over a note or two, repeating the sequence up or down the scale pattern. A bit more challenging to negotiate, but stay disciplined with the metronome and there's no reason why you can't get up to a good speed with it for any scale youlearn.
Exercise 15 Starting with a descending sequence (from the top of the scale pattern), we play the first note, skip a note in the scale, play the 2nd note, step back and play the note we skipped and stagger downwards like that. For this, I could use a smaller box pattern as follows...
Exercise 16 Things are going to get a little trickier now because the repetitions are more complex. Challenge yourself with different variations on the above exercises - mix skipped note sequences with straight sequences like in the following, gradual descent (again, using that box pattern from above)...
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Exercise 20 You could also try skipping behind the starting note of each repetition (skip backsgreyed out). Very difficult to explain in words, so here are the diagrams! This is an ascending pattern.
As you can probably tell by now, there are 1001 examples I could give you, but I think you have enough variation ideas from which to build your own run sequences.
A lot of the sequences you build will be dictated by the fingering of your chosen scale pattern. As we've seen, some runs are more accessible using 3-note-per-string scale patterns, whereas others a better suited to narrower box patterns.
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Either way, when it comes to making your own exercises, or even a solo, you should try mixing different sequences - note skips, staggered repetitions, triplets and straight runs - as it will all go towards improving your speed, timing and finger dexterity.
In the next part, we'll look at more effective guitar scale exercises you can use to further develop your speed and timing. In the meantime, devote at least 10 minutes a day to the above exercises (you don't have to cram them all into the 10 minutes, choose one per day to work on, starting from the top).Before you learn these guitar scale exercises, I suggest you first go through this lesson on how to learn and use guitar scales
Rather than give you a random set of guitar scale exercises, I will take you through a process where you’ll not only learn scales more deeply, but also jog your creativity to start improvising your own melodies.
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The first group of exercises will help you learn the scales we’re going to use in depth, namely the major, the minor scale and their respective pentatonics.
In the second group I will show you a few ways you can use these scales to create your own guitar riffs, licks and solos.
In the third group I will give you incomplete phrases you will give one or more endings to, some of which will come with instructions and suggestions.
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In each of the exercises in this group, we’ll be using a different scale sequence on the major scale, the minor scale and their respective
The following is a simple sequence where you play the notes of the scale in this order 1-2-3-4, 2-3-4-5, 3-4-5-6, 4-5-6-7 etc..
Instead of the CAGED system, which I find inefficient I prefer 3 note per string patterns to learn major and minor scales.
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The following sequence uses triplets over the 3 note per string pattern of the natural minor scale. The sequence goes 1-2-3, 2-3-4, 3-4-5, 4-5-6 etc.
Note that in this scale sequence, the first note we’re playing is not the first note of the scale but the second.
If you want to learn these scales really well, you can apply each scale sequence to every other scale. This will prepare you better for the next section where we’ll start turning these exercises into real music.
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The first four notes of the first and the fourth bar, are parts of the scale sequence given above. A good place to start a guitar lick, or even a guitar solo, is taking a snippet from these sequences and turn it into a….
Melodic phrase: Guitar phrasing is a crucial skill for those who want to create music on the instrument. Phrasing is about how and when you play the notes, rather than what notes you play. To achieve this we use phrasing techniques such as the ones in the example below: Vibrato and string bending.
Motif and variation: Did you realize that the same rhythmic and melodic ideas found in the first bar keep repeating themselves in different forms and variations in the following three bars? It’s very important to keep this concept in mind when improvising guitar solos.
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You don’t need to create new stuff all the time, but use the same motif – a very short musical idea – and makes changes to either the melody, the rhythm, or both.
The minor pentatonic is a cool scale to use, I personally use it a lot in improvisation, however it’s a bit limiting when it comes to expressing certain emotions through music because it lacks notes that form a dissonant interval from the root note of the scale.
These two notes happen to be among the more dissonat in the scale which is great, since resolving dissonance into consonance is one of the best ways to add melody in music.
C Major Scale
What I want you to notice in the next short musical example is the notes that weren’t in the minor pentatonic and the effect they have on the melody.
Also note two other techniques used which are string skipping between the last notes of the first bar, as well as the slide between the first notes in the last bar.
I don’t personally use the major pentatonic that much. It’s rarely the scale I need to help me express myself musically and it’s not
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