How To Practice Scales And Become More Melodic On Guitar - Soloing Tips

Can you practice scales and become more melodic on the guitar at the same time? Absolutely! In todays guitar lesson I'll give you a number of soloing tips to not only learn your scale shapes, multiple versions of the same chord all over the neck, but also how to improve your technique on the guitar at the same time. This will drastically improve your ability to move all over the fretboard in a more melodic and less mechanical sounding way. This way your practice will be more efficient and will hit technique and melody creation at the same time! Sound too good to be true? It's not and I'll show you how! Go grab your guitar and lets get down to business!
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Yeah I call it shape one for the actual shape of the scale that way wether I am referring to major or minor I can just say shape one. Some consider that only position one for minor scales and a different position one for major. Gets confusing for a lot of people heck I am confused just trying to type it right now lol!

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Noticing how you used Apagios and triad shapes within the scale and how they connected and how to navigate melodically thru the 5 scales . There is no end really. I think knowing where all the Apagios are within each scale also is important as the triads . You have me thinking away I have never looked at the fretboard the way I do now and understand I still know little even though I've gained a lot. . One step at a time. It's a beautiful puzzle in a sense that notes can be hit and rehit at different intervals but so important to land on the root third or fifth to blend in with each chord progression. I play by ear so I can hear when it's right but knowing what I'm hitting and where it's all located s priceless. The caged system is awesome .basically it always comes back to that. Now which scale shape to use or start on is where I get a little confused I can figure it out quuckly but not sure from the start it's coming to me it's the mixture of major and minor scales combined that throws me off.

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Playing with purpose rather than noodle . A lot of guitarists use just the first two shapes . Good lesson !

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Glad you liked it! Thanks for tuning in!

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I really like that you're doing this with the pentatonic major instead of the minor. I'm definitely much weaker on playing in major, so this is really useful. Thanks Brett!

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Using shapes helped open the major minor mixing door for me..

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