| There is a really common mistake that many guitarists | | | | you learning unnecessary scales. These are guitar |
| make when learning guitar scales. This one mistake | | | | scales that are not needed in order to play the style of |
| slows down their rate of progress drastically. What do | | | | music that you want to play. For example: If you have |
| you think it is? It is simply this... | | | | a love of blues guitar then it would be a complete |
| They try to learn every single scale there is! | | | | waste of time to learn some exotic scales that you will |
| I did this myself when I first started playing guitar. I | | | | never use. Your time would be better spent mastering |
| bought one of those thick guitar scale books and set | | | | the scales common to blues guitar. |
| about trying to learn them all. I was spending hours and | | | | 3. Your guitar practice routine becomes unbalanced. |
| hours a day learning the scales in the book. I thought | | | | If you try to learn way too many scales at once then |
| that to be a "master of scales" I had to know them all! | | | | there is a good chance that you spend too much time |
| I soon realized that I was making a big mistake... | | | | practicing scales. This can cause you to neglect |
| Now why on earth would this be a mistake? Surely | | | | practicing other really important things such as phrasing, |
| the more guitar scales you know the better right? | | | | ear training, chords, improvisation and learning songs. |
| Well...if you had seventeen lifetimes to learn them all, | | | | 4. You learn scales in a superficial way. |
| then this would be true. But the fact is, our time on this | | | | This is when you know lots of guitar scales, but you |
| planet is limited. There is just not enough time to learn | | | | don't know any on a very deep level. They have not |
| every possible scale! | | | | "become part of you" yet. This probably means that |
| So why does trying to learn huge numbers of guitar | | | | you find it hard to improvise in a musical way. You |
| scales potentially slow down your progress? Here are | | | | may sound like you are just running up-and-down |
| four big reasons... | | | | scales when you solo. |
| 1. You'll feel overwhelmed. | | | | Can you see how these four reasons can slow down |
| Just thinking that you have to learn hundreds of scales | | | | your guitar learning progress? Are YOU making the |
| puts you in a total state of overwhelm. You might not | | | | mistake of trying to learn too many scales at once? |
| even know which scales to start with. This feeling of | | | | What would be some specific things that you could do |
| overwhelm can often lead to procrastination. You | | | | to avoid making this mistake? (This last question is |
| keep putting off your guitar scale practice in favor of | | | | worthy of some serious thought!). |
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| Trying to learn every single scale there is can lead to | | | | |