Does your C Major Scale sound tired on your guitar?

Are you sick and tired of boring practice sessions?

You know the feeling you’ve sweated blood trying to get the sound you are hearing in your head but somehow it always ends up sounding like an exercise.

In this session, we going to look at one of the ways the creative guitarist can musically practice scales.

Playing a scale ascending and descending is just the same as reciting the alphabet forwards and backward it’s not going to communicate.

In short, scales can free our fingers but freeze our brains.

On the other hand, if we have a look at melodies we find that they made up of intervals and repetitive melodic motifs so it makes perfect sense to incorporate these ideas into our scale practice.

We do this we will be able to break the bind that exists with normal scale practice which is we play what we hear and we end up hearing what we play.

So here is one way we can make our scale practice more melodic.

Step one: Select a scale, I’m going to use the scale of C Major for this example.

The next creative step when we are learning the C Major Scale on Guitar is.

Step two: select an interval, let’s use the interval of a third (diatonic third).

Step three: create a sequence, a very powerful Pattern to use in a sequence is the interval of a semitone.

C Major Scale On Guitar: Sequencing

So what I’m going to do is take our original scale and I’m going to play each scale note then go back a semitone and then return to the scale note and finally incorporate the interval of the third that we used in Step two.

The completed sequence would look like this:

C-B-C-E | D-C#-D-F | E-D#-E-G, etc.,

Next, we’ll take the sequence and play it through the entire scale

It would be a good idea to record some backing tracks using chords created from the key of C.

If this concept of chord families is new to you check out Chord Construction.

Learning about chord progressions will also be very helpful when playing with other musicians and transcribing solos from recordings.

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