Guitar Scales?
airborella
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What exactly are guitar scales. Is this something that I really need to know when playing the guitar. I have been playing for a few years and I realized I dont really know the correct way to play. I have tought myself everything I know. All that I know I have learned through tabs. But when I try do do my own solos, or play blues I cant really get it to sound right. Will knowing guitar scales make it easier for me to do solos? Does anyone know of a really good site that can explain them to me real easily?
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de '0' AT thE verY LEFt of thE DIAGraM R Open strinG NOTEs
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dis iS HOW MONKEYNUTS LERNED To do leaD. HE JUST memorised that PATTERn and played abOuT wid iT
Music theory is a physical thing. A root tone will be at a given pitch and a note twelve notes up will have twice the vibrations of the root. That is the nature of the octave.
Monkeynuts gave you one of the easiest and most versatile guitar scale patterns for playing rock. Get that down and you may be able to get to the top. Understand how to add back in your 4th's and 7th's and park that pattern at different key signatures and you got everything.
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He knows the rules and how he can break them.
Neil does a trick on some songs that a friend I used to play with used when writing his own song. My friend is a big Neil fan and it took me a long time to understand what was happening in these new songs like flatting the root of the 7th chord in the key and making it a major rather than the usual minor flat five. This trick adds incredible tension but most of the notes actually played are in the original key so your ear tells you it works.
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