Learning Acoustic Guitar - The Biggest Mistake You Are Making Learning Scales

Learning guitar scales nearly drove me crazy.

The whole process was long frustrating and to tell you the truth, at first, I just didn’t see the point of it.

You see, when I first started learning guitar all i wanted to do was to play my favorite songs. I had no interest in learning the background theory. I way a D.I.Y guitarist doing it all by myself.

The idea of learning guitar scales, guitar modes and all the background theory scared the heck out of me.

To be perfectly honest…

• I never practiced them
• I didn’t want to waste time memorizing boring note combinations or dull sets of sounds repeated over and over again.
• I hated the mind numbing repetition

The really important thing I didn’t realize at the time was that by being stubborn and avoiding guitar scales I was holding myself back from mastering guitar.

There were so many benefits when you learn guitar scales that I had never thought of:

1. Learning guitar scales helps you build your finger strength. This in turn will improve the rhythm side of your guitar playing.
2. Learning guitar scales gives you a greater knowledge of the fret board and opens up new and interesting ideas and sounds
3. Learning guitar scales improves your hand eye co-ordination dramatically

But then when I started to pay attention to them I realised something terrible.

I had no clue where to start. The sheer amount of scales I thought I needed to learn was simply overwhelming. It was like a Pandora’s box. Every time I learned something new about guitar scales it opened up a whole new range of problems.

I needed help but I didn’t know where to look.

Why couldn’t someone just tell me what guitar scales I needed to learn, how I should learn them and most importantly how the heck could I use scales to play those smooth effortless solos all my guitar heroes seemed to play with ease.

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