What scales do you practice the most?

[Orange Jackson]

 

Modes... all positions all keys...

 

 

This.

Making up scales is good fun too.

 

 

The best lesson on modes I have seen,

 

 

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[Roy]

 

This. Making up scales is good fun too. The best lesson on modes I have seen,

 

 

wow.

 

not big on satriani but the kid sure knows his stuff. really liked his perspective on music. went to youtube and found a bazillion satriani instructional vids. he has some really good techniques and exercises.

[EADGBE]

I would love to practice scales but I don't know of any good scale practice books. Any recommendations? I like one especially for lead electric guitar.

[the_gunslinger]

 

I would love to practice scales but I don't know of any good scale practice books. Any recommendations? I like one especially for lead electric guitar.

 

 

If you want a book about just scales, Guitar Grimoire is the way to go. They list just about every scale in every key in there. Of course making sense of it, and learning to use the scales is a different matter.

[Roy]

 

I would love to practice scales but I don't know of any good scale practice books. Any recommendations? I like one especially for lead electric guitar.

 

 

http://jguitar.com/scale

[wagdog]

You guys practice?

[Rekel]

You guys practice?

 

I do sometimes while on stage or in the studio

[vaguelee]

Most of the modes, locrian and lydian don't do it for me.

Harmonic minor and some of its modes.

I use arpeggios with passing tones if I need

more than that. Most of my rock soloing is a

mishmash of dorian and mixolydian with

other scale tones (usually maj7) occasionally thrown in.

[StompBoxLover]

When you are Practicing what are your go to scales that you practice the most?

 

chromatic and diminished

 

not scale practise per se, I come up with sequences, try to throw in some string skipping and see where it feels awkward for me. Then I focus on that.

 

here's some stuff:

[enuenu]

C Major

[MuyLoCo444]

All the major scale shapes, pentatonic major and minor, blues, and harmonic minor.

[soundcreation]

99% of the time I practice all five positions of the pentatonic minor/major and all five positions of the natural minor/major. By practice that doesn't necessarily mean running up and down octaves. I'll put on a backing track and jam with melodies but be conscious of practicing one particular box that might be weaker. Then linking the boxes smoothly, so I can play up and down the neck in any key that the backing track happens to be in.

[twofoolsaminute]

I constantly practice on the bathroom scale, but I can't for the life of me get it below it's physical limits without relying on the chrome towel rack.

[jrockbridge]

7 modes

5 pentatonic

[jamdogg]

You guys practice?

 

[Raskolnikovs axe]

If you're just practicing scales by running up and down them, then yes, it can lead to overly linear playing. That's just the first step though. After you've got that down, you can play the scales in chunks - 3 notes, 4 notes, 5 notes at a time (say, in C major, C D E, D E F, E F G, etc) or in different intervals (3rds for example - C E, D F, E G, F A, etc) and keep throwing in variations and curves like that. Doing that will just improve your finger dexterity far more than going up and down the same patterns.