How to Connect Scales on Guitar

Wondering how to connect scales on guitar? In this in-depth lesson I'm going to show you exactly how so you can play all over the fretboard in any key using the five major scale guitar shapes.
➡ FREE PDF: Top 3 Pentatonic Scale Patterns for more melodic soloing ➡ bit.ly/3lIQujx
Other scale lessons mentioned in this video:
• How to Master Major Scales on the Guitar (5 levels): • How to Master Guitar S...
• How to Practice and Hear Modes on the Guitar: • Guitar Modes Exercise
Scale Lessons Playlist: • TOPIC: Guitar Scales
The scale diagrams in this video were made at guitarscientist.com
If you're still confused about how to connect scales on guitar, just leave a question in the comments and I'd love to help you out :)
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[@soundguitar]

➡ FREE PDF: Top 3 Pentatonic Scale Patterns for more melodic soloing ➡ bit.ly/3lIQujx​

[@Kevinschart]

Thank you for not just saying "you need to see the shapes" and instead giving us some actual work that will MAKE us see the shapes.

[@Scott-k2b5p]

This video along with several of Jared's other videos are brilliant and the most helpful tools for progressing on guitar found on the web. I have searched for this brilliant type of instruction for many months. His videos are not just gimmicks, content to hook you or pieces of indecipherable information like most are. They are amazing pieces of important information that truly helps you progress. His videos have done more for my knowledge and playing that all others on the web and I have watched hundreds. This is true instruction by a master. I have never subscribed to anyone's video with the exception of Jared. I have never left a comment. Perfect , brilliant, intellectual , practical and extremely valuable information for any guitar player. He is clear, exact and to the point. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. The exercises give me lots to practice and I am never left with the question " what should I work on " keep up the great work. Jared is a real guitar Hero.

[@madisonmasontv]

Reeeeealllly good Jared. Don't make the videos shorter just to appesl to shorter attention spans. Teach from your beautiful heart as you do so well. Let those who can't or won't hang drop off. You don't need them. They'll get what they can get.

[@birlupis]

Keep getting carried away. You are sharing very effective insights. Thank you!

[@treacherkat]

don’t worry about your ‘motor mouth’ pal. you are a fantastic teacher and your content is A-1. … as they say when they signed our high school annuals back the the Jurassic era: ‘stay as you are and you’ll go far.’ keep smiling, playing, and teaching

[@Paolo-ie7nh]

Those lessons are really valuable. People who have him as a teacher, where he has his school. Are really lucky. If I would live in that area, I would have him. And nobody else……. He knows exactly what he’s talking about. Yeah, that exercise with the 8 notes. That’s a killer one…… « Jazz musicians » have some of those. Very effective….but not so easy. But as Jared says, let it be difficult, part of the process……good attitude to adopt.

[@edburl3516]

Love the philosophical approach. Opens up the entire fredboard and mystery of sound there

[@soundguitar]

Glad to hear that! :) Cheers

[@dalesmith2118]

seeing how they all connect has been a problem for me this will help a lot thank you

[@soundguitar]

Glad to help! Check this video out too if you can: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hmXQZamMdsigitk. More recent. Same topic. Cheers, - Jared

[@garrycole8909]

Jared, you are spot on! It's helping me so much. Thank you so much!

[@arrenlenau3077]

ok, haha, the number one take away that I got from this video, after I finally watched the whole thing (and stopped in the middle to practice and find the A scales) was that I love you. You're hilarious, I laughed out loud. The very end was so funny, because you just kept going, and then you said, oh, two bonuses! Love it. You are verbose, but it is also helpful and you're having fun! And I'm learning so much! Also, just the scales all laid out and shown was super helpful. But I also like the idea of going down one scale form, and then going up the next scale form and so on. I'll try that one next, once I get through all the scales. And you mentioned learning pentatonic scales by simply removing the 7th and 4th. Great! Thank you!

[@soundguitar]

HAHA thank you for the feedback!! I know... I'm having a hard time keeping these video under half an hour! yikes... I keep thinking the next one will be shorter but I definitely talk too much and can't edit it down. I really appreciate your thoughts. I'll find my voice eventually either by just owning the long form or refining the tightness. I'm thinking of switching to specifically teaching guitar, theory, and improvisation to songwriters who play guitar for the purpose of helping them write more unique and interesting songs that stand out using music theory and compositional techniques. Let me know if that direction sounds appealing to you. It would be a lot of the same info I usually teach, but I'd feel more focused knowing that I'm specifically wanting to serve creative people who want the information and skills to eventually apply to their own songs. I experimented with that format on my latest video (kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5bKl2lsrLuni5o) - also a long one! haha :)

[@5324man1]

Thank you for this. Honestly, really helped me connect these shapes and feel more comfortable moving around the neck

[@lainyjordan9684]

This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you. Great video.

[@chuckkokoski-jc5td]

Excellent daily practice routine !

[@StephenMWulff]

My #1 takeaway is that all five positions can be found by finding the lowest root of each position on the 6th (2 positions), 5th (2 positions), and 4th (1 position) strings.

[@6idangle]

Even easier. If you notice the caged shapes all Start one up from the note corresponding to their actual note. C starts in the A form, a starts the in g form, g in the e, e in the d, d starts on c. This pattern will be the order of shapes but you have to think about them in a loop. Also consider each scale wants to start where the caged name should be but it’s clunky using open strings to play a scale that’s why the positions usually don’t include the open strings. The final position when you get to the 5th position is c if it’s c, a if it’s a etc. Then you can account for b and f. F starts on d position finishes on e. B starts on a. So basically b and c follow the same pattern shifted one fret. F and e share the same pattern shifted one fret. So by knowing c and e you know b and f already.

[@krebbin259]

Thanks. A really valuable lesson, brilliantly articulated 😊

[@soundguitar]

Thank you! 😃

[@sergiogomasuarez3678]

Thank you so much. For me, the duration is perfect because you give due time and explanation so that everything is really clear at every point. Honestly, I think you give the necessary time to each video. The necessary time that the content itself requires. Thank you very much, you are helping me a lot... Your passion is transmitted and contagious. 😊

[@kevon217]

I love implementing your lessons. Extremely helpful! Hardest thing for me is seeing the forms starting from the way down.

[@DidNotReadInstructions]

Best on YT The takeaway for me was not to work on them like I have been but to switch to your style of practice. I had zero structure and was stuck on G Major / Em Scale (same scale) all over the neck and was not learning to play the changes which has stunted my learning and growth. Now I have tons more work ahead of me, tons of hours of practice to do. Goal is the learn scale tone melody playing maybe like Jerry Garcia??

[@StephenStigling]

This has been such a eye opener ive been struggling to see how to combine scales but this has cleared so much how it works

[@soundguitar]

Thanks, Stephen. Happy to clear things up!

[@drdebrillos8909]

Extremely Helpful as always, Thank you Jared, you sir, are a very valuable resource

[@soundguitar]

Thank you, Dr! :)

[@stephenchristensen3455]

Comprehensive, concise, systematic and understandable. Great lessons 😊

[@arrenlenau3077]

this is awesome! thanks! this is exactly what I was hoping for! I think I did figure it out one day, but I wanted to be able to see it, so I even wrote it all out like you showed on the graphs. heh. thanks again!

[@soundguitar]

Perfect! Glad it was what you were looking for, thanks! :)

[@mabblers]

Wow another great lesson

[@dominickegan]

Great, great instruction! Much appreciated. 2 on 6 and 5 and one on four-new way of looking at it for me and very helpful. Thanks.

[@StratsRUs]

Always Great !

[@soundguitar]

Many thanks!

[@matthews4976]

Great Lesson, Thank You!

[@soundguitar]

You're very welcome!

[@johnletitia]

Thank you!

[@Bflat-fu3wb]

Superior content from a superior teacher. Should be the first lesson for every beginner or frustrated guitar player

[@dalesmith2118]

thank you nice lesson

[@soundguitar]

You're welcome! :)

[@zekewatkins7134]

Rock around the clock guitar lesson

[@wjhmdcfi]

Thanks for your excellent inspiring instruction. In trying to connect scale forms…. Am I correct?: when finishing one form..do we start the next form on the next scale tone after the one we ended on in the preceding scale shape? You are masterful in explaining the complexities of music theory on the guitar…thanks to you I’m finding that music is no longer quite as confusing as I used to make it!

[@khalidaziz234]

Thank u very much u r graet master

[@MusicWizard85]

The first scales I ever learned were minor pentatonic. Then it blew my mind that just moving 3 frets down from the root on the low E string gave me the major pentatonic. Same patterns but starting on a different note. Lightbulb moment. Then I learned the major scales and minor scales patterns and had to adjust. I just had to think of it as "ok you already know the pentatonic patterns...the major & minor scales are just adding more notes". I wish more teachers emphasized some of the major/minor/pent tricks where scales are the same if you just adjust something. I like this video but wish you would've kept the pattern diagrams up on the screen showing what you're playing as you play it.

[@ClamsAnonymous]

great!

[@mattkanter1729]

Awesome. So eye ( and ear ) opening. Question please- Wouldn’t the root on the 4th string also have two scale shapes , one to the right and one to the left ? I’m sure that I’m missing something heat and / or I haven’t thought about it enough,,( because,, hmmm there only are ‘ 5 scale shapes ‘ ) Thanks!

[@soundguitar]

Good question! The root on the 4th string definitely will have a shape on both sides, but the shape to the left of it is the same as the to th right of the 6th string root - so that 4th string root is an active up from the 6th string root in the same shape. Hard to explaining via typing but I hope clarifies! Thanks for asking - * * Jared

[@garrycole8909]

I think it does as well. But there are 3 notes on the 2nd and 1st string that are all a full step apart.

[@joelmenezes457]

I loved your lesson. But I didn't understand which shapes to play. To thr root note on 6th string, 5th string and the 4th string

[@lindsayblack766]

Hey Jared, awesome lesson as usual! What is your opinion on the 7 scale forms as taught in the Leavitt books?

[@elsnowman123]

Thanks to your videos, I can play both vertically and horizontally in key if I know where the root is! I've been learning triads as well so I can make my improv less scalar, but I'm finding that if I'm doing improv off the chord progression using triads, I lose my place again (for example, the V doesn't have the root in it, and if I try to jump into some melodic play after playing the V, I'm again lost). Maybe I want to solo off the 5th interval of the triad, but I don't know immediately where that is in comparison to the root of the key, so I'm lost. Is there some practice I can do for fixing this issue?

[@timlist1178]

This kicked my ass

[@mediumdun18]

Just found your channel and many thanks for the content . In this and other of your videos , correct me if i'm in error, you seem to back away from the CAGED system . I'm curious about that as CAGED appeared to help me navigate both chord tones and pentatonics across the fretboard. One of the things I've gained from your channel is that I was in the habit of using some crutches that hid underlying theory and now understanding a bit more of the fundamentals has been liberating rather than a " chore" as it is often described . Am I making the same mistake with CAGED ?

[@soundguitar]

Good question! There's nothing wrong with CAGED, I just don't usually use that name for the common shapes, but it's the same stuff and it's a system that works really well! If CAGED is helpful for you, go for it! :) -Jared

[@musicmcgee775]

I’ve been playing for seven years and I don’t know a single scale front to back. I’d like to say this helped, but if anything it made the last seven years feel like a waste of time.

[@Kevinschart]

What are you playing for 7 years that never tried to learn a scale?

[@garrycole8909]

I think we all feel that way. I know I do.

[@snuffbox2006]

chock full of musicianship nutrients as usual

[@dnguyen787]

I would start out with Pentatonic scales first. It's a lot easier. :-)

[@soundguitar]

Starting with pentatonic is great! Thanks, Bien

[@nipunsangeeth840]

You have no idea about how this gonna help me

[@soundguitar]

I hope it helps a ton! Best of luck :)

[@jackiedixon5076]

Seems several teaching videos, teach the pentatonic scales and they are important, however Major scales are just as important, I believe.

[@soundguitar]

Agreed. I have scales video here (the first is major scales): kzbin.info/aero/PLho65cYn4nF1fSUGvjZ-1_0MS_GSNqLz_

[@daynemin]

😎🙏🌄

[@dandilion62]

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