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Im just starting guitar lessons soon and will be getting my first guitar…
someone said i should get an Epiphone. Im hoping to play lead guitar (after a lot of practise and lessons)
Is an Epiphone diff to any other electric guitar..?
and would this guitar in the link provided be ok to use as a beginner?
http://www.dv247.com/invt/37169/product.htm?gdftrk=gdfV2356_a_7c416_a_7c1181_a_7c37169
If you’re talking about electric, do NOT get an Epiphone for your first guitar. Start out with something small, like a Crate.
Anyways, all guitars are different. There are different brands of guitars, just like clothes. The things that differ are the way it is built, the frets, the effects, and appearance. I would not waste my money on a epiphone if I were just picking up a guitar. Epiphones are great for experienced guitar players who know what they’re doing, and have experience doing it. You need to make sure you’re serious about guitar before getting an Epiphone.
I’ve been playing guitar on and off since a younger age…I’m 28 now, I think I got my first guitar around 12+ years ago. I’m pretty good at playing with chords and strumming patterns in general. I’m okay at fingerpicking, but really haven’t spent a lot of time on it. However, I would like to learn scales in order to learn to play The Blues on my acoustic guitar.
I’m just really, really confused. As an example, this picture: http://www.guitarplayerworld.com/ImagesGPW/BluesGuitarScalePatterns.JPG
What are the 1, 2, 3 and 4′s for? Is this the finger index, middle, third, pinky, etc. being used to fret the string? Is it the pattern that should be played in order, to play the blues scale itself? Or is it the number fret that the guitar should be fretted at? That’s what’s confusing me.
Another example is this:
http://www.12bar.de/gif/scale_c.gif
I see that the roman numerals on the bottom are the frets of the guitar. I see what the diagram itself is saying the different colored dots ‘mean.’ But how do you know what pattern/order in which to play the dots? Surely musicians didn’t spent 100,000 hours sitting around trying to figure out "what sounded good" from a bunch of patterns like this. But I’ve also already tried what sounds good by ear, and it takes an incredible amount of time to find notes that fit one another and sound well together in a good pattern. How do the real blues artists do it so effortlessly? People like Stevie Ray Vaughan seemed to automatically know what to play at the shortest notice and could just "make up" blues out of nowhere. I realize there are patterns you can learn that help with improvisation. But I can’t figure out how to play the patterns themselves in order to learn them.
Hi,
The reason your seeing 2 of the 4′s or 1′s is because there is a shift movement of that finger. and there is a shift on down one fret on the b string.
Just slide up with the first finger for the extra 1 or down one fret with your pinky for the extra 4 to get there.
With the 1,4,5 pattern of the 12 bar blues rhythm just shift over a string or two as the pattern progresses and then back as you return to the one.
Listen to some Buddy Guy or someone like that before you jam. You should pick up on the groove.
The second illustration is useless unless you have the box patterns 1-5 in front of you to figure out how they fit together.
Hope this helps.
Roy
Guitar-skill-builder.com
So.. I really do not understand scales. I have read about scales from quite a few resources but I am still utterly lost. So please tell me everything you know about scales. Thank you so much 
Dr X’s answer is correct but maybe you need to understand the theory more. A scale is the path you take through an octave (like from a C to a high C). Start from any note; if you go up just one fret, that’s a half-step (like C to C#, 3rd to 4th fret on your A string). If you go up two frets, it’s a whole step (like C to D, 3rd to 5th fret on your A string).
With "w" for whole steps and "h" for half steps, a major scale goes wwhwwwh. A minor scale goes whwwwhw. Try doing that on just one string to start, say your E string:
E major will look like this:
E – 0 – 2 – 4 – 5 – 7 – 9 – 11 – 12
E minor will look like this:
E – 0 – 2 – 3 – 5 – 7 – 9 – 10 – 12
So far so good? Now, as you probably know, the fifth fret on one string is the same as the next string up, played open. That means you can go up the scale without constantly having to slide your hand up the neck.
So you can play your E major scale like this:
G – ——————————-
D – ————————-1 – 2
A – ———— 0 – 2 – 4 ——-
E – 0 – 2 – 4 ——————–
Or the pattern Dr. X showed you. Use www.studybass.com, or get a book of bass scales (they’re only $10 or so) and it will show you lots of patterns to follow. Once you’re comfortable with major and minor scales, you can move on into more complex things like modes and things like mixolydian scales, etc.
