Guitar Scales Get You Ready For Playing
guitar scales to warm up before you start playing some real songs works really well. They are a great way to switch your brain into a sort of guitar playing mode and get your fingers stretched and ready.
Guitar Scales Are Exercise For The Fingers
If you imagine guitar playing as a sport then playing scales is like going to the gym. Playing guitar scales is a great ‘exercise’ for both strengthening and conditioning your fingers for playing and for getting your brain used to musical patterns and sounds. To be in top playing condition you really need to play scales regularly to keep your fingers in peak performance shape.
Playing Scales Helps Your Strumming Hand Too
Try playing alternate picking when you are going through your scales. Practicing scales while concentrating on your strumming hand can dramatically improve you picking and strumming abilities.
Learning Guitar Scales Helps You Memorize the Fret board Layout
When you learn scales you are concentrating so much on remembering the notes of the scales and what you should play next that sometimes you don’t even realize that you have learned the position of every note on the fretboard.Learning guitar scales is the single greatest way to ‘download’ the fretboard layout into your brain.
Learning Guitar Scales Will Help You Learning Guitar Chords
Guitar scales are the basis for guitar chords so it goes without saying that the more knowledge you have of scales the more you will be able to manipulate the guitar to make it do everything you want
Learning Guitar Scales Will Give You Amazing Pitch Recognition
Every time you learn a guitar scales both the individual notes and the note combinations get imprinted on your brain. If you learn enough scales you will learn the pitches whether you want to or not.
Learning Guitar Scales Makes You Play Faster and Cleaner
Every time you learn a new guitar scale you finger will move just a little bit faster and more fluidly over the entire fretboard. When you master the most important scales it feels like your fingers almost glide over the strings.
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