In this lesson, we're going to talk about some tips for using guitar scales. Many guitar players learn a bunch of scales and then have no idea what to do with them. They are an essential part of lead guitar playing, so I'm going to give you 8 tips for how to use guitar scales. For this lesson, we will be sticking to the key of A major.
The first tip I can give you is pretty obvious, and it's to memorize the scale shape. That said, it's not about just going through and kind of memorizing the scale shape. It's more about memorizing it so that it's second nature. Basically so that you know the shape so well that you don't even have to think about it to play it.
The next tip I have for you is to memorize the root note locations of the scale shape. These notes are essentially the home base of any scale shape, so it's important to know where they are in any shape you learn. For the A major scale shape, they are the notes that are shaded in.
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When you're playing a scale, certain notes will be the same ones that are included in the corresponding chord. We call these notes chord tones. To really get an idea of how this works, it helps to know the chord shape within the scale. In an A major scale, we would emphasize the A, E, and C#. In the example below, you can see where these notes are in the scale.
An interval is simply the space between two notes. Allowing for different spaces between notes in a scale is how we create melodies. Here's an exercise you can use to start recognizing the sound of each interval between the different notes from within a scale.
A sequence is just a pattern of repeated notes throughout a scale. We'll be taking a look at one commonly used one. Sequences are commonly used when players are playing quickly. The scale sequence in this lesson is a simple three note sequence.
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Singing what you play is a great way to start breaking down the walls between what you're doing physically with your guitar, and what you're trying to do mentally. Start off by singing along to a scale, and gradually try more challenging sequences or melodies. Eventually, you'll be able to sing what you want to play before you even play it.
Understanding the scale is as simple as just knowing the theory behind the scale. Things like the intervals, the notes, the tonality, and the chords you're allowed to use it with. A great place to start with this is to learn the intervals in a major scale. The intervals in a major scale are just a series of whole-steps (2 notes) and half-steps (1 note). This is called the major scale formula. The major scale formula is W W H W W W H.
There are a number of ways to start practicing your scales along to music. You can play along to a jam track, jam with a couple of friends, or even start writing your own songs and coming up with your own solos and riffs. To help with this, we've included a jam track in the key of A major that you can practice all these exercises along to. You can download it by clicking on the link beneath the video at the top of the page.Making your solos sound really awesome, however, takes time. If I were to split out the total number of hours required to master improvisation using that old 10, 000 hours of practice = mastery line, it would look like this:
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Way too much time spent thinking and learning scale shapes and not enough time spent doing! This is not an efficient use of time if your goal is to become an awesome soloist.
When we're talking about lead guitar, all scales, licks and music theory are there to help you start soloing. They do not replace the creativity, skills and aural training that helps you play awesome solos - that comes from many hours of actual soloing.
Today, I'm going to streamline all of the scales and theory part into 3 scales which you can use over ANY song. That way, you can focus purely on playing solos (next week I'll give you a complete cheat sheet for how to use these scales over any key).
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Easy to remember and easy to play, this is (for most of you) going to be the most common scale you'll go back to when soloing.
It's best to use this one with lots of alternate picking or fast hammer-ons and pull-offs, but no matter how you play this scale, it should be nice and easy to remember.
Perfect for rock and blues leads, but really, the minor pentatonic scale is so versatile that you can use it in any style.
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Notice that we're working on the root 6 shape and the root 5 shape for each scale, which gives you enough versatility to solo no matter the key. Learn one pattern first, then work on the next.
Start your scales from a root note when you're playing them on their own, as this will help your ears get used to the major tonality.In a solo, start from wherever you'd like.
For maximum speed, pick down-up-down on each string on the way up and up-down-up on the way back (this technique is often called sweep, hybrid or economy picking, and is more efficient for your picking hand).
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You can use this over almost any style, though you'll probably need to be a bit more choosy with your notes than you are in the minor pentatonic scale as we have introduced more dissonant notes.
This is great in more complex situations, but may be a bit too out there for a normal pop or rock song.
First, if a song is in C major, your go to scale is probably going to be a (you guessed it) C Major Scale.
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Without diving into the theory side too much for now, here's some examples of the safest scales you can use over certain keys and chords:
For example, if the chords are C - G - Dm - C (key of C Major), stick to the one scale over every chord. Later on, you can start to move between different scales mid-solo if you'd like more variety.
Ultimately, you want to learn to relax and start to explore outside of the scale shapes, which will become easy once you have amassed plenty of hours using your ears, fingers and creative brain to play your own solos (I regularly solo over songs without even considering the key - my fingers just know where to land from experience).
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For now, if you get a sound you like, give yourself a standing ovation - and an encore - then record it and post it on our Facebook page. We'd love to hear what you've achieved!Welcome to video three of the Lead Guitar Quick-Start Series. In this lesson we cover the major scale, which is the foundation for the other scales and chords you’ll learn as a guitarist. We’ll go over the mechanics and memorization of the major scale, and you’ll start to practice this scale shape with a jam track.
Before we start learning the major scale, let’s look at how to read a scale diagram. Scale diagrams have six vertical lines, and the line on the very left represents the low E string and the line on the right represents the high E string. The horizontal lines of the diagram represent the frets.
You’ll see that the scale diagram has many dots on it, and some dots are filled in while the rest are not. The dots that are filled in are the root notes for the scale you’re playing. Since the scale we are learning now is the G major scale, these root notes are all G notes. The circles that are not filled in are simply the rest of the notes in the scale.
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Inside the circle you’ll see a number, which represents which finger you should play the note with. That brings us back to the designated finger concept, which I mentioned in the first video. This technique means that you will have one finger designated to each fret. With the G major scale, your first finger will play any notes on the second fret, your second finger will play notes on the third fret, and so on.
The major scale has seven notes, but looking at the scale diagram, you’re probably wondering why there are more than seven notes in this scale shape. Essentially, once you’ve played the first seven notes in the scale, you’re going to repeat those notes in a higher octave.
Okay, let’s jump into this scale shape. The first note you’ll play is the lowest note of the scale, the G root note. Play this note with your second finger on the low E string on the third fret. The second note is on the fifth fret, and you’ll play this with your
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