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Learn Guitar Scales Part 1

0 Learn Guitar Scales Part 1http://www.learnguitarblog.com/learn-guitar/

Check out our 3 free learn guitar courses on how to learn guitar scales, learn guitar chords and learn guitar tab right now at the blog. There’s also lots of info on more advanced guitar techniques like hammer ons, bends, harmonics, guitar finger picking.

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0 Blues Guitar Scales   Acoustic   Ultimate E Blues RunPre release offer on my new acoustic blues dvd’s http://www.guitarjamz.com/new_requests/

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Learn the Pentatonic Guitar Scale Solo

0 Learn the Pentatonic Guitar Scale Solohttp://www.riffeo.com for more free guitar lessons and other music learning videos

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0 BL 012 • Blues Lead Guitar #2 Scales (justinguitar.com)PART 2 in SERIES – In this lesson we look at the three most commonly used scales in blues, The Minor Pentatonic, The Blues Scale and The Dorian Mode. This is your blues “alphabet” and you should get to know these before starting to learn your licks!

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0 Play A Classic Rock Guitar Solo   Guitar LessonStudy guitar online with Berklee:

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Check out this video from Berkleemusic.com and watch as Assistant Professor at Berklee College of Music, Joe Musella explains the Pentatonic scale – the quintessential tool for playing classic rock guitar scales in this Berklee guitar lesson.

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0 Rock guitar lesson soloing exercise play lead scaleshttp://www.nextlevelguitar.com/pages/videojamtracks/
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In this lesson we teach a killer practice exercise to get you visualizing the neck as one big scale and scale connections made easy. Then we have a jam with a backing track to apply what you are learning. Jam tracks are an essential practice tool for the guitarist.

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img1 Learn Guitar Scales : The Mysterious Locrian ModeWhen you begin to learn guitar scales, you learn how to advance your guitar playing. Rock guitar players, as well as jazz guitar players, who learn the music theory behind guitar scales really sound better than those stuck in the blues box. They sound more fluid, more dexterous, and more professional. One way that you as a guitar player who is wanting to learn guitar scales can take your guitar playing to another level is through the learning of modes. Modes are derivatives of “straight” guitar scales (although when you get advanced enough you understand that “straight” guitar scales in and of themselves are modes, too). When you learn guitar scales and modes at the same time, you give yourself a much greater base of knowledge from which to construct songs and solos.

One of the guitar modes that you need to learn is the Locrian Mode. The Locrian Mode is very similar to the Phrygian Mode, which is yet another guitar mode. However, when you play in the Locrian Mode, you play the Phrygian Mode except that you play one note differently. In addition, especially for beginner and intermediate guitar players, it’s important to note that you will start and end your solo on a different note than you would if you were playing in Phrygian.

Playing in the Locrian Mode, in its simplest sense, means beginning and ending a solo or lead break on the 7th note of the “straight” scale-that is, the scale the comes from the key that you are playing in. So, if you were playing in the key of C, and you wanted to play a solo in Locrian, you would start and end the solo on an B note. It would not have to be exactly the same B note, it could be a B note in another octave if you preferred, but it must be B (ha!).

Playing in B Locrian means playing something different than the B major scale. It also means playing in C in a different way than you would if you just were going to use the C major or its relative minor (A minor) scale for a solo.

Advanced guitar players want to understand the intervalic relationship for using a mode. The intervals for the Locrian Mode yield the following notes (relative to the key): Root, flatted 2nd , flatted 3rd ,major 4th ,flatted 5th , flatted 6th, flatted 7th . If you wanted to play B Locrian in a C major key, the notes that you would juggle would be: B, C, D, E, F, G, A, B’.

If you played B Locrian, you would play in the key of C but give the “sound and feel” of a B scale. You would “think in” the series that starts and ends with B and B’, but they would all be notes from the C major key (and thus scale). Imagine how creative you can get with that!

Imagine if you played the B Locrian mode (or “scale”) over top a chord progression in the key of B. You would give a very different feel to the song or piece.

The Locrian Mode is not used very much, in truth. There are differing theories as to why. It might be that the Locrian Mode, as it is based on the Leading Tone, is too “suggestive of” the Ionian Mode and thus loses effectiveness. It’s also thought that the Locrian Mode sounds so much like the Phrygian Mode that it’s barely distinguishable and, so, why should a guitar player learn or use both when Phrygian is so popular?

For the discerning guitar player who wants to learn guitar scales, the Locrian Mode allows for some very pronounced contrast between the solo and the chord progression. When you learn guitar scales, give yourself a great tool with the learning of the Locrian Mode.

 

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Learn Guitar Scales : The Exotic Phrygian Mode

When you are learning to play the guitar it’s important to learn guitar scales in order to advance your playing. You don’t want to be stuck in the blues box forever, nor do you want to just play it by ear. Understanding music theory deepens your ability to play solos and compose music. When you learn guitar scales, you learn some of the most important aspects of music theory. And, when you learn guitar scales, you want to learn modes, too. One of these modes is the Phrygian Mode.

In simple terms, the Phrygian Mode is played by taking the notes of a key and making the first note and the last note played both the third note in that key’s scale. So, let’s say that you’re playing a song in the key of C. To play a solo using the Phrygian Mode, you would start and end the solo on the E note. This does not have to be th exact same E-note; that is, you can start the solo with a low-E note and end the solo on an E-note two octaves higher, if you prefer.

When you become more advanced in your guitar playing, you can play solos based on the Phrygian Scale’s intervals. Knowing about this gives you a deeper understanding of the notes involved in the Phrygian Mode and lets you get even more creative.

The Phrygian Mode intervals go: Root, flatted 2nd , flatted 3rd ,4th ,5th , flatted 6th , flatted 7th . So to play E Phrygian, you would use: E-F-G-A-B-C-D-E’. Notice that E Phrygian Mode is really in the key of C. So you are really playing the C major scale, but you are emphasizing the individual notes in a different than “straight” way.

The Phrygian Mode is used to give an “Egyptian” or Middle Eastern feel to a solo, lead break, etc. It is a favorite mode of “Neo-classical rock” guitar players and advanced instrumental hard rock guitar players like Steve Vai and Joe Satriani.

Because of the fact that the intervals used in the Phrygian Mode result in the inclusion of several flatted notes, this mode has an exotic, mystical sound, as if you’re conjuring up a magical underground river than nobody sees but all feel. If you are interested in playing some complex rock guitar based music, this is a mode for you. It is great to use to do an acoustic guitar lead or solo, too.

When you learn guitar scales, you learn how to be a more advanced, more expressive guitar player. Don’t forget to include mastery of modes when you learn guitar scales, and don’t neglect to learn the Phrygian Mode.

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