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I just got a book with scales for guitar, help me use it in the best way possible!


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The gigbag book of scales for all guitarists

-Compiled and edited by Joe Dineen and Mark Bridges

 

I has a ton of scales in all keys in standard notation and tablature. I want to make up some kind of good practice routine. What can I do besides just playing the scales with a metronome and trying to learn them?

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Applying them is far more important than just playing to a metronome. First make sure you know the theory behind it , if you can relate the positions on the fretboard to the major scale (it helps a lot to relate the new scales to ones you already know , youll memorise much faster). http://acapella.harmony-central.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=292665&highlight=jam+tracks has some good jam tracks on it , download the ones for whichever scale you want to practice and have some fun , youll be a lot more interested and focused improvising with the scale , so youll learn it faster as well as learning "out of the box" straight from the outset.



I do suck at guitar though so i may be talking BS :D

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Originally posted by Goody

Applying them is far more important than just playing to a metronome. First make sure you know the theory behind it , if you can relate the positions on the fretboard to the major scale (it helps a lot to relate the new scales to ones you already know , youll memorise much faster).
http://acapella.harmony-central.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=292665&highlight=jam+tracks
has some good jam tracks on it , download the ones for whichever scale you want to practice and have some fun , youll be a lot more interested and focused improvising with the scale , so youll learn it faster as well as learning "out of the box" straight from the outset.




I do suck at guitar though so i may be talking BS
:D



Thanks buddy! I'll be downloading some of those for sure. You'll never believe it but I use to jam to Laurel Aitken (jamaican ska legend) to get some groove into my scales. Great stuff.

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