Beginner Guitar Lesson – How To Play a Chromatic Scale
This is a very easy to follow and well made beginner guitar lesson created by Peter Vogl on how to play a Chromatic Scale on guitar. The Chromatic Scale is a wonderful exercise with numerous benefits. It will build strength in your hands, help to create calluses on your fingertips and also help to familiarize you with strings and frets of the guitar.
Enjoy!
Guitar Scales 22 Fret System
By Mike P Hayes
If you want to develop top-class guitar scales and improvisation skills, then the guitar scales 22 fret system is the tool that will make your dreams come true. By following these simple and precise guitar scales, you will be on your way to successful guitar music playing in no time.
A major reason why many guitarists never master guitar scales is that they try to learn too many at once. The key is to learn one scale at a time by practicing the guitar scales 22 fret system you will learn to unlock the fingerboard and be free to express yourself over the entire fingerboard.
Good knowledge of the fretboard will enable you to: improvise better, learn songs quicker, learn more chords and Scales, read music. I definitely recommend memorizing or becoming familiar with the fretboard.
Rather than aimlessly practicing guitar scales, you want to become laser focused. What guitar scales you need to learn, in order to play the style of music that you love.
Guitar Lesson – Lead Scales – Pentatonic Major & Minor
A lesson on the pentatonic scale and the difference between the major and minor version.
The Blues Guitar Scale and How to Master It
If you are new guitar player who wants to make a career or a hobby out of playing blues guitar, then this essay will give you the basic points to get you on your way as a player and interpreter of the blues. Or maybe you have no intention of specializing in blues guitar playing. In that case my essay will give you the bare bones of musical interpretation using the guitar. These basic points can be applied to any genre of guitar music.
So, let us start with a minor pentatonic scale. Whenever you see the word pentatonic you know the scale has just five notes. This is the A minor pentatonic scale starting at the root note – A at the fifth fret of the sixth string:
Why Learning Guitar Scales is Important
Learning guitar scales is important, even if you think it almost as boring as learning chords. The problem with many new guitarists who have just started learning is that they want to go too far too soon. That is the road to disaster, as many failed guitarists will tell you.
Have you ever seen these piano players learning how to play, when they are going up and down the octaves playing their scales? Well, they are putting money in the bank because it will help them later when they have to play certain note combinations without thinking. If you are going to be a good lead guitarist, or a solo guitarist of any description in any genre, you too will have to spend time learning your guitar scales.
What Guitar Scales Should You Study?
By Mike P Hayes
What are scales? What guitar scales should you study? If you are new to the guitar, and new to music, you are probably not even quite sure exactly what a scale actually is, which certainly adds to the aura of mystery that begins to surround the subject.
Learning and practicing scales can become an obsession for many guitarists. Scales can “free your fingers and freeze your brain”, if you’re not careful. Always keep in mind that scales are part of the preparation work we do so we will be free to express ourselves musically.
Scales are to the musician what skipping a rope is to a boxer, it’s part of the preparation work. Scales are simply a means to an end. What guitar scales should you study depends on the type of music you want to play. It’s far better to master a small number of scales and be able to apply these scales to many musical settings.
The first thing to understand is that there are hundreds of scales, to give you an idea of what you’re up against, here’s a short sample of some of the names of scales starting with the letter “L”. Leading Whole Tone Locrian Locrian #2 Locrian b4 Locrian Flat 4 Locrian Minor Locrian natural 2 Locrian Natural 2nd Locrian Sharp 2nd Lydian Lydian 7b Lydian Augmented Lydian b7 Lydian contracted Lydian diminished Lydian Diminished 1 Lydian Diminished 2 Lydian Dominant Lydian dominant scale4 Lydian Minor Lydian Sharp 2nd Keep in mind, this is only a sample from a very long list of scales. Each one of these scales can be played in 12 different keys as guitarists we have the added issue of multiple fingering options on the guitar fretboard.
Guitar Lesson: How To Use The A-minor Pentatonic Scale In The First Position
By Peter Edvinsson
When you learn to improvise you have most likely come across various guitar scales. But, how do you practice guitar scales in order to use them in your playing? In this lesson you will learn how to make music of scales!
What is a 
pentatonic scale?
A common major scale consists of seven notes. A C-major scale for example have these seven notes:
C D E F G A B
