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  • Very helpful great lesson thanks...

  • Is there a handout like that but for minor scale positions?

  • wow move to chicago please

  • I have that exact guitar :P this guy is extremely helpful!

  • Thanks man

  • Thank you for your great experience Andrew in helping others!

    God Bless !

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  • Thanks for the video! Very helpful in creating a practice system...as you said, at first the amount of work can feel a bit overwhelming.

  • Great suggestions for practicing scales. It took me quite a few years to get the scales down and it was a struggle. I think it would have taken half the time If I had a video like yours back those days!

  • LOL i have the same guitar xd

  • What i wanna practice is how can i automatically know what kind of note compliments other notes, lets say i just saw some dudes playing chords, regardless of style, what can help me always make the musicality of what they are playing, regardless of the style i approach it with, wether it be me using chromatic stuff to a blues track to me playing country in a metal rhythm that would compliment it.

    Would CAGE And circle of 5ths help?

  • your a great teacher. thanks for the vids. In the one your licks have an eric johnson feel. nice job

  • Andrew, your lesson is genius!!! best ever. But please write down the number of frets on your scale pictures . I am really confused , thx Berh

  • Brilliant!

    Thanks Andrew! :)

  • andrew, superb tutorial thanks Berh

  • What kind of guitar is that?

  • Hey great video but I have a quick question;

    You said try and end on the circled notes (root notes for the Ionian/Major scale) at the end of the phrases, but if I wanted to do modal practice with these scale positions should I just simply change the root note to end with depending on which mode I want to practise? (e.g: If I wanted to practise the phrygian mode for C major I would work around the E note but keep the scale positions the same?)

    Thanks for the help

  • There is something I don't understand.

    How do we make you learn the notes which are after the root note on the scale.

    For exemple with pattern 4 If we stop on the lowest pitch circled dot how do we do to play the last A (considering we start with a G)

    An other thing. The Major scale is supposed to go A B C D E F G A (starting at A) But if with use the pattern 4 starting with the fifth note on the sixth string we have A B C# D E F# G# A. Is this normal?

  • @MrSamirite For example in C major, start from the lowest C and go up as the pattern shows you and come back down to the lowest C, then continue without stopping down from the lowest C as the pattern shows and then come back up to the lowest C.

    C major is the only major scale that doesn't include sharp/flat keys. Check out the ”circle of fifths”.

  • @SidHenderson Thanks for answering.

  • @MrSamirite No problem, and I meant sharp/flat notes, not keys, though I'm sure you noticed that.

  • what is that black thing on your guitar?

  • Thanks, This is perfect for me. I have learned a few patterns but didn't know how to "blend' them as you show on your chart.. Even metal guys like Zakk preach to newbies that scales are the secret to playing guitar. Of course anyone can learn one song at a time, Learn scales and you can make your own music.

  • Which pattern are you using at 6:27

  • Hello Andrew,

    I´ve been playing guitar many years, more or less but this video made me understand how scale patterns interlocks to each other. I´am very happy now. Thank you very much.

  • Hi Andrew,

    Awesome stuff. Just printed off the PDF "How To Practice Scales".

    PATTERN 1 is great to start off on in the Key of C, thanks to all the open strings...but what about something like the Key of B? Do you recommend starting PATTERN 1 an octave up and then picking up PATTERN 2 an octave down?

    Just wasn't sure if there's a recommended order to practice these patterns.

    Thanks!

  • hello, thank you for this great lesson Andrew, i really appreciate what you do for us! i believe that i have mastered the positions of the major scale and i need some important tips about practicing scales....the question is.. now that i am trying to learn new scales and their positions for example the harmonic minor, the diminished scale etc. can you demonstrate an efficient schedule of practicing more than one type of scale without leaving the old ones out? your answer would REALLY help,thanx!

  • Great lesson Andrew !!!

  • 0:00 to 0:35 is quite Okay.

  • Andrew, My name is Mike, I'm a 25+ year "self taught" player. Being self taught, if missed a lot of little details and my playing suffers. Your video's are the guitar teacher I've never had. I'm going to implement your practice concepts. Thanks for what you've posted, I'll be waiting for the next. Mike.

  • you are the man andrew! i loved the thing you played at the top of this video, and then loved that you said it was off the top of your head! these videos are worth gold man, thank you.

  • This Video Is AMAZING!

  • thanx man.your videos are genuinly helpful which is hard to find.im definatley coming back for more tips, keep up the good work!

  • Andrew. I really enjoy your reviews, and your very excellent easy to follow methods on learning scales, and modes. You are a Natural!! Thanks Jim

  • you are by far the most thorough teacher I have ever seen and I have been playing guitar since I was 13 years old.. I am now 33

    Congrats on being awesome!

  • i thought that each pattern was movable and so if you just knew one sscale you knew f major g maj c maj a maj. R U saying that theres a different scale for each Key?

  • Isnt the intro a song of eric johnson?

  • Awesome intro. Where did you get that? I would like to learn how to play it! :)

  • I never went to bed at night without watching this man. I met my cyber teacher already. And he is Andrew. Just curious sir, where can I find those exact 5-scale-patterns you discussed here? that exact picture. I want to have it printed. Thank you sir for inspiring me everyday.

  • @delacruzneili

    There's a PDF I've made called, "how to practice scales." A fast way to find it is to simply Google that phrase, "how to practice scales." It will show in a Google search as a PDF.

    Or, go to my "Creative Guitar Studio [dot] com" website and go: home > guitar theory > how to practice scales

    Hope this helps,

    Thanks for watching!

    Andrew Wasson

  • @creativeguitarstudio thanks sir. I always wonder why the hell there are only few views for your videos. When I think about it, I come to realize that, truly gems are only found on the things you never take a second look at.. That Andrew. You really are a great teacher and you have the heart to those who are in need of videos like this for free. I hope I could purchase your other stuffs, but maybe soon when purchasing abroad will not be so prohibitive here in our country. Thanks.You are my hero

  • another great vid, this is exactly the type of instruction i'm looking for, thank for sharing!

  • Thumbs up for andrew

  • the picture of the scale patterns at 4:25 alone was a lot of help THANK YOU

  • the guy from india said he had learned all 5 major scale positions , i thought there were SEVEN? or is he talking about petatonic?

  • @stuartjonez Hey man this got me confused as well, but it all depends on how you break up the scale, some people break it up into 5 patterns but they are bigger patterns and other break it into smaller patterns which ends up being 7, its all the same notes, hope you understand

  • can i have a printable version of the patterns?

  • Here's my idea. Learn the notes on you're guitar. and by that I mean LEARN the notes. No frets, no strings, they are just notes to you. Then you can play any scale any time, all you need is the formula. Learning patterns is EXTREMELY limiting and time consuming. This is what i'm working on and so far it's working out great. I would love to know what other players have to say about this, including andrew. If you know the notes, and what notes are in a scale, then you can do what you want. Right?

  • @FreedomOrNothin Interresting! For me it sounds very time consuming. Learning the notes on the guitar is reather straight forward but it surely takes a lot of work. But learning the notes off all scales in all keys sounds like an overwhelming task. How do you do it?

  • @FreedomOrNothin that is exaclty how i am going about it.. i just got to the point where i know all of the notes on the guitar but i dont know how i should practice learning the different keys

  • Thanks, Andrew. You're a great teacher and a testament to the Internet at its best!

  • The intro reminds of Eric johnson a lot!

  • Can you create a practice companion for the caged system in some of the basic keys..where you play the notes slow, then faster so we can play along to learn the positions and all the notes please? No one has done this on youtube...rob bourassa's practice companions are excellent, and graded, but he doesn't do the whole neck

  • @BlindPony Suggestion: Buy some scale-books or loan them from your local library, or go to SCALERATOR . com to find charts of the notes in whatever key you're looking for.

  • How do I know which finger to use in a scale and where to start ..PS help

  • @19990SAND In the video he suggests starting and finishing on the root note. Google "guitar scale fingering." You'll find plenty of images and tutorials on it.

  • @CorvidaeHerald I am trying to learn sclaes on my own ..I known few shapes of major,minor and pentatonic sclae but while looking at patterns from scale books it is hard to know where to start..For instance for major sclae pattern 1 root note is on 2nd and 5th string ..so I start from 2nd string or 5th ...And If I start from 5th string then move downward (5-4-3-2-1) strings and come back then should I repeat the 5th string again while going to 6th string ...Hope you will get it and pls reply :)

  • @19990SAND Let's say you practice like in your example. I suggest you repeat the fifth string while going to the 6th and then finish on the root note on the fifth string.

    Another example of a pattern where the root note is not on the 1st or 6th string: E major, finger-pattern 4. One way of practicing this: hit the root note on the 3rd string, 2nd fret, then ascend from string 6 to 5-4-3-2-1 and then hit the E (root note) on the 2nd string, 5th fret. I hope this makes sense & is good for you.

  • @CorvidaeHerald Thank you that was what I exactly looking for,that was confusing me for few weeks and there was no clear video or article about it in internet too, Thanks a ton..It makes good good sense ♫ :)

  • @19990SAND Cool! If it's not overwhelming I have one more tip that might be helpful when you start studying the modes (if you haven't already). You could do this exercise after you've gone through a major scale & sequencing patterns like Andrew recommends in the video. Let's say you're practicing the G major scale. You start on G then ascend to A B C D E F# G (Ionian mode), then hit A and descend to G F# E D C B A (Dorian), then ascend from B to B (Phrygian), descend C to C (Lydiaan), etc.

  • @CorvidaeHerald I do know few things about mode especially Ionian and Aeolian in few positions but not much idea about phrigian,Dorian and lydiaan. I will do exactly as you say.Thank you again :)

  • Excellent video, along with the handout. Thank you, Andrew!

  • thanx for this!

  • Great work! E Phrygian=G Mixolydian=A minor= C major= D dorian and

  • awesome stuff !! :)

    

  • Sage advice from an experienced teacher. Excellent lesson.

  • i love your lessons you are a great youtube guru

  • @GigglingGirI yea he is, he plays and teaches vary nicely!

  • @mepizzasmangled what scale does george benson practise?

  • You are the greatest Guitar Teacher on Youtube!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Thanks for all your lessons!!!

  • Wow, I'm a bassist but I find the videos equally helpful especially since I play a 6 string bass. Thank you! =D

  • You are a great teacher, man! Thanks a lot! :D

  • Nice video, Motivated me!

  • This guy is the best teacher Ive seen anwere. You are great

  • Dude I needed this!

    

  • awesome dude. just awesome.

  • this is genius. never thought of having a visual of the patterns in front of me. i'm sure this will help me alot. thanks for the video.

  • Hi, can you make a video on practicing up and down picking with a pick..?

  • That opening... should be put in a movie.

  • Great sweater!

  • thx for all your help,,, i have to apply all this., im so dislexic at guitar....gotta keep at it. thx angain Andrew

  • What do you think the most important thing to learn about the guitar is?

  • @333blackmath which way round it goes. Very important

  • @dodeebanger What do you mean, like knowing how to go back up the scale? Or knowing all the different octaves of that scales, giving you more room to improvise? Or both? I just started seriously playing about a couple months ago.

  • @333blackmath No, just which way round to hold the gitter. I always find it easier to have the stringy side facing away from me. Its these small details that can make a crap gitterist be more musical. And remember to switch the amp on. I always forget that

  • @dodebanger Hahahah your an ass

  • @333blackmath Thanks for the compliment!!

    Aye, no but seriously tho, the most important thing about learning guitar? I would probably say learn the notes on the fretboard, even just the 6th and 5th strings to begin with. this will really help when it comes to knowing where to fire off a scale/chord. As you can identify the root easily. Hope this helps,

    Regards Dode (ASS)

  • I LOVE your guitar tone!!!! Very nice lesson, thank you!

  • This is very helpful. There is just too much stuff in it though. Thanks.

  • thankyou for taking the time to do these videos....very helpfull!!

  • you are the greatest teacher ever!!!!

  • you are the MAN!

  • Hey Andrew, I liked your Presentation.

  • Hey Andrew....just wanted to say great video. I've been doing lessons now for a few months but your video has really helped consolidate the concepts a lot more. Keep up the great work!!

  • Hey, I remember reading that same Steve Vai issue! There were pages and pages of tab! I still use some of those chromatic exercises when warming up.

  • thanks for your dedication to teach.. keep it up! i always prefer to watch your lesson videos whenever i have troubles or confusions.. your lessons really encourages me to pursue music.

  • Hi. First, thanks for all your work, it has really helped me out.

    So I have a question: I'm learning major scales through the neck with the help of modes: I learn all the 7 mode patterns and then switch between them. I know it is essencially the same as you do here, but I don't know if in the long run it's more helpful to learn the 5 shapes you pointed instead. Any advices?

    Thanks in advance and happy new year, keep it up!

  • the dude looks like Rowan Atkinson 5*

  • best lesson ever. thanks andrew.

  • what kind of scales are u playing?

  • Wow this is just what I needed! Thanks so much!

  • Very good video lesson Andrew. A lot of information here.

    I can see how much you need to know the basics - without thinking about it.

    Thank you for the theory and basics.

    I really like your soft style. G.

  • ur face does'nt look like a guitarist but ur playing...Fuh!

  • @redbloodtest

    Because he's a musician.

  • ur great

  • I've been looking from the internet the answer for my question with no luck. My question is, what is a scale?

    What I think it is, is that it's more or less a bunch of random notes played in a certain order.

    Well what do you do with these scales? Can someone tell me? I think they are for soloing or something but I have no clue.

  • @FL0myFL0

    Well, your scale definition is CLOSE, but not quite. The notes are not random. There are 12 tones within a chromatic scale, but set at certain intervals, there will be 8 tones.  You know the Do-re-mi-fa-so-la-te-do. That's a major scale. The 12 tones in a chromatic scale are all 1/2 step apart. For a major scale, you start on a particular note, then go whole step-whole-half-whole-whole-wh­ole-half. Easy way to think of it, 2 (whole-whole-half)'s with a (whole) in the middle.

  • @FL0myFL0

    If you need further explanation, feel free to let me know.

  • This is extremely helpful. It makes me wonder why I'm paying $30 for a lesson on jazz theory while this is basically exactly what I'm taught.

  • @jarvins2225 you can only gain so much from a video. if you aren't gaining more from your lessons, that is your own fault. you need to ask the questions and describe your pitfalls to your instructor.

  • Great videos, Andrew. I have been searching for some honest practice techniques on the web recently and yours are, by far, the most thorough and enjoyable. I'm a guitar player for 20 years now and I feel like I've been in an 15 year rut. With two kids and barely any time, I need to make the best out of my practice schedule. I will surely be viewing your other videos and your books as well. Thanks for giving me hope! Keep up the great work!

  • i love your videos. congrats

  • Hey Andrew, I just wanted to thank you for your great lessons!

     Like a lot of people said already, I also think you're seriously the best teacher around here!

    I love how well you're able to explain everything for us to understand, I'm definitely watching and practicing all your stuff from now on!

    (ow and you totally have this positive energy around you, I don't know what is.. it's just.. positive =D it's motivating and best of all, it's making me not get bored while watching your vids =p )

  • Hi andrew.

    Your lessons are amongst the best I have found on the net....I have been playing for around 8 years and have no problem playng complex songs like paul gilbert and symphony x but in improvisation Im a bit short!!! I have tried learning scales over and over but the motivation starts going away when I fail to use the scales with a backing track....is there a way to keep motivated when learning scales??

  • I have just subscribed to your channel. Great videos! Thanks Andrew.

  • I kinda like that style there in the begining, nice

  • Andrew you rull, hi from Argentina!

  • You're a good teacher, you explain everything nice and simply, i'll definitely be following more of your lessons.

    I also like how you spend a short time actually demonstrating compared to the helpful verbal explanations. The expert village guy just spends half the lessons showing off.

  • the beggining is encouraging and motivating!

    and the classes are great

    thanks man, a lot!!

  • I have been looking for months...Just to get a decent explanation on this subject, and just imagine how glad I am . Thank you,

  • What are the positions of patterns 1-5? The diagrams look like they're all near the nut and start around the same place. I'm assuming that pattern 1 meshes with pattern 2 laterally along the neck, and so forth between the 5 patterns?

  • There seems to be a mistake on your Pattern #4. I like the way you showed the relationship but the mistake on Pattern #4 threw me for a complete loop. You are missing a note on the low E or sixth string. I am pretty sure that both E strings will match on every pattern.

    Great way to represent the scales though. I appreciate your effort. It really helps the young players.

  • Nice tips.... Especially about time frames. Two years to start to get comfortable. It doesn't come overnight!

  • the first 40 seconds left me like this O_O

    that made my day

  • hey, i have a quick question. if i learn all of the 5 positions of a major g scale, do i really need to learn it in D and E and F and A etc... the scale shapes are movable up and down the neck, so i could just slide the scale positions over their corresponding root notes. do you get what i am trying to say?

  • Thanks for your lessons.. You are one of the best guitar teachers i've seen on youtube.

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  • Your tutorials are working on my fingers .5*****.thx.

  • wtf i cant understand anything this guy is talking about

  • @frankixbox Serriously? google some of it, and get a word a day calendar XP

  • @WilliamBonneau learning guitar lingo is hard what is an arpeggio? what is a different key of a scale is it like g major and stuff? what is a mode? what is a scale pattern is it the same as a shape? man this is hard i need a teacher

  • @frankixboxx

    Arpeggio=notes of a chord played 1 note at a time.

    a key can be like Gmajor or E minor etc, its basically what notes are available without sounding outside (aka there diatonic)

    a mode is a formula that has its own tonal flavor (u can see it as a position of the major scale starting and ending on a different note as well)

    scale pattern is the road map of each mode (how to play and memorize it in a small chunk)

    I was self taught my whole life, just do a bit of theory every day

  • @WilliamBonneau dang self taught?! idk if i can do that i mean where did you learn this stuff? because when i google these things i only get definitions with more guitar jargon well not jargon but terminology that im not familiar with i need tutorials for a complete beginner

  • @frankixbox

    you can find it in books (torrent them if your cheap like me)

    and google "guitar-dreams" they have the modes in G.

    what i did was just take small chunks, one chord/arpeggio, one scale and 1 theory term. in a year you'll know more and it only takes maybe 30 minuets a day, the idea to that is not getting burnt out on the stuff and giving up. if u don't know your notes start with that.

  • @WilliamBonneau well yea i'm not gonna give up but i will admit im getting kinda burnt out i can read tab and i actually can play riffs like sweet child o mine but i just wish there was a more smoother transition from being a complete beginner to actually starting to get good ya know i just feel like to achieve that it would require a teacher right now i just feel like im muddling around even when i try to google and read books on terminology and different skills i just don't get

  • @frankixbox Yeah I dident start on theory till i was about 3 or 4 years into playing and just make a goal, like learn your notes over the next month on the neck theres a million places to find that kind of information, but it takes time. like, if i wanted to go ride a unicycle it takes some work.

  • @WilliamBonneau yea well thanks for the advice man

  • isn't it easier to just go up and down the fretboard going up and down all the modes?

  • hey did you major in music in college?. if so i have some questions for you, it would be great if you could help me out

  • same in finnish! thx

  • same in finnish. Thanks!

  • thank you very much Andrew!!!!!!!!!!!

  • hi my name is nick. i first started playin guitar in a class at school about a year and a half ago but th teacher never taught theory so i have a lot of questions. how do you know what key your playing in? can each scale shape be played anywhere on the guitar and be correct? can any scale be played in any key? what exactly is the significance of begining and ending on the tonics exactly?

    thank you, nick

  • ive been practicing the major scale and the pentatonic scale for a long time. and i was wondering what good actually comes out of doing these. i know it might be an obvious question but i never knew

  • @drjakim hello friend...the scales are TOOLS.. tools you can use to transfer emotion and create melodic statements...i suggest while you play a scale..mess around the notes...try to find something that sounds cool...try to make melodic ideas..if you listen to many other good music makers you listen that they transfer a scale to musical ideas..thats the main goal of learning scales

  • Very good lesson and a very good teacher!!

  • can some1 explain to me that thing with shapes? thanks

  • really great videos! thanks a lot for making them.

    i had one question, not sure if you have covered it already. when improvising over chord changes or even chord melody should you count the rhythm in your head so that you know how many bars you have been in a particular chord so you can hit the root of the next one etc.

    basicaly how do you know how long you have been improvising for and when to move on to the next thing and stay in time?

    maybe a good video idea if its not done already?

  • how would you approach learning the notes on the fretboard? I feel like the more and more I get to know where notes are on the fretboard it makes it easier to do some things.

  • @thedonace213 in standard tuning, you may know the notes to be E A D G B E. if you look at these notes as all of the strings played open, you can take each individual string and count down in alphabetical order. ex. on 5th string: open is A, 1st fret is A#, 2nd fret is B, etc. 2 exceptions occur (between B and C and between E and F). each of these two exceptions have no # in between. that is all.

  • @thedonace213 there are also shortcuts with octaves as you look down the fretboard vertically.

  • I really like your bit about scale sequencing, however, when I look for sequences on google, only tabs and notation come up, where can I get sequences in scale degree form like you did in this video? Are there loads more?

  • I've always played rhythm guitar...lead never appealed to me...HOWEVER...I love watching a great lead player....nice lesson..thank you

  • please explain more on those arpeggios. I really would like to understand those better.

    yuor a very good instructor. thank you.

  • Good information, thank you for sharing and inviting me. I hold free guitar workshops at a local flea market on Sundays and your information and guidance will be very helpful. Mark

  • Is there any way i could get a tab for the song at the beginning?

  • yeah haha i have that vai workout..yeah its takes time before you can be free on this ,just imagine how much work people like satriani put into this..

  • Bah... watching you play makes me want to just give up

  • the intro to this lesson was very satriani-ish, really nice!

    unfortunatly the internet connection was so bad I couldnt watch the rest of it!

    lol

  • Your tme spent giving lessons here is greatly appreciated. Your a wonderful teacher.

  • @smoocherooo

    htt p://ww w.wikihow. com /Use-You're-and-Your

  • thank you for the lessons! They have really helped me in my playing

  • where's the stuff about this lesson on your website?

    Great Lesson BTW

  • i can never jam to jazz backing tracks, the chords are really complex with b5 and b9 ect and i can never end up finding the right scale, cuz if i do then its all wrong for the next chord : /

  • where's the material for this video in your website?

  • The material for this video is nearly finished.

    Follow me on Twitter for a notification of the page going live on my web-site... should be finished within the next day!

    The link to my Twitter page is in the sidebar.

    Thank you for all of your kind words and for your support of the Creative Guitar YouTube Project ... Spread the word!

    - Andrew Wasson

  • @creativeguitarstudio hello mr. andrew can you pleas do something on scales like major scale because i dont understand the G major Emajor kinda stuff.could you do something to celearafiy

  • @creativeguitarstudio

    sir may i ask question?is that your neck and bridge pick up can play metal?is there humming issue?sorry for my bad english

  • Thanks & GOD Bless you

  • That intro was absolutely beautiful!!!!!!! I love your lessons.

  • Excellent