Category Archives: Guitar Scales

Guitar Training Exercises For Stamina

Have you been practicing the same old guitar scales over and over again? If you’ve already mastered your current training routine, it’s time to break out of the rut and push yourself out of your comfort zone – you won’t get any better without a variety of different exercises. One DVD I constantly use till…

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How To Practice Scales On Guitar

” How should I practice guitar scales? ” is one of the most common questions asked by beginners who are learning to play guitar. One of the keys to playing good lead guitar is knowing your scales back to front. You should know the major and minor scales by heart and every other scale in…

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The Pentatonic Minor Scale For Lead Guitar

Why Is the Pentatonic Minor So Important? The pentatonic minor scale is so frequently used in Blues, Rock, Metal and Folk music. As a beginner to playing lead guitar and improvisation,  it is best you start by learning the pentatonic scales first as opposed to learning the regular major or minor scales. The pentatonic scale…

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Major And Minor Pentatonic Scale Similarities

The major and minor pentatonic scales have some common areas of overlap. This is best explained with this guitar video tutorial that I found on Youtube. I think it’ll really help beginners understand aspects of the pentatonics alot better. For more tutorials on the major pentatonic scale and the minor pentatonic scale, don’t forget to…

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The Major Guitar Scale

What are the notes of a Major guitar scale? Do you know what note intervals are? This quick guitar lessons covers it all.

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