My method for practicing scales

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Yessss, thanks for all the juicy info.
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Re: My method for practicing scales

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BigSpeen3436 wrote:
i like tictacs wrote:
BigSpeen3436 wrote:
i like tictacs wrote:
E: E F G
A: A B C
D: D E F
G: G A B
B: C D (skip the open B string)
e: E F G

and so on. now, when you need to pick a note from the C major scale for whatever you are playing, you are familiar with all the notes in this scale/key/whathaveyou and you can use them at your disposal. don't just do this for c, do this for all the scales you know in all the keys you can. also, practice this all over the fretboard, not just down low. you will notice there are always three patterns, and three patterns only, which will help alot once you get going.

so if we did this for an A scale, we would start

E F# G#
A B C#
D E F#


and so on...

get me?
Feel free to do the other scales.
i'm not sitting here and writing ten or so scales in 12 keys
Come on, pleaaaaaaaaase? This is the first thing I have ever been able to understand about scales. If not, thanks for the help so far.
i'll do some more tonight :-p
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YES! Thank you.
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