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By Rick Hart


At the start learning how to play guitar can be particularly frightening. You not only need to learn to play chords but you also have to learn scales so as to be a good guitarist.

And those first few chords can be troublesome. Your hand doesn't go into the positions required naturally. It requires perseverance and time to build the muscle memory to be able to get your hands and fingers into those chord positions. But over a period you can do it. It just takes a bit of perseverance.

For many , learning scales is a bit simpler. You are generally coping with one finger on one place on the guitar fretboard, so it is a bit better to do. And when you know one or two scales you can start playing along together with some of your fave blues or rock songs.

So learning scales is a handy place to begin to learn guitar and get your fingers in shape at the exact same time. Until you have some calluses on the end of your fingers it'll be hard to hold down those strings. And the only possible way to get those calluses is to practice. You know what they say... No pain no gain!

Scales Are Essentially Fairly Easy - It Is Actually About Shapes

Learning scales to the point where you are decent at it is not that hard. There are "shapes" on that fretboard that you follow to grasp where to play the notes of any given key. And once you learn these shapes you can just move your hand horizontally on the fretboard to play the scale in different keys. It's really very cool how it functions.

And there's different shapes for different scales. A major scale and a minor scale have different shapes... But only slightly. It's basically something you can pick up fast. A major scale "shape" and a minor scale "shape" for the same key are really exactly the same. They are just played on different parts of the neck. Once you've learned one you've learned them all.

What's The Best Way To Learn These Shapes

Once you see the shape it's pretty simple to understand. Describing them with words is rather more tricky. After you see a picture of the shape, or even better, watch an mpeg of someone playing the shape, it's something that you will pick up quickly and always remember.

And again these shapes can be applied to almost any kind of music. They're employed in rock 'n roll, country music, and blues music all the time. Actually a blues guitar scale is nearly precisely the same as a heavy metal scale that could be played in a punk music band. That's the reason why you see many older punk rockers getting into the blues later on in life. They start to realize that the music is very similar. It's just a matter of attitude... And perhaps a little volume.

And there's something by the name of a pentatonic scale that's even less complicated. It's called pentatonic because there's only 5 notes in the scale (penta means 5). You don't need to use as many fingers in the scale and it's pretty fast to pickup (no pun intended). And these pentatonic major and minor scales are the basis for rock, blues, country, death metal, funk, and just about every sort of well-liked music.

So start learning those scales and start having some fun with whatever sort of music you like. Take a look at my internet site where I've got some free guitar training and show you those shapes.




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