At Learn Guitar we don’t believe in beating our students over the head with massive scale study. Why? Boring!!!!! We do teach scales though, every student needs some form of scale work. After all scales are what music is built off of.

Many guitar instruction consist of a nasty regimen of scale work that gets you no where but to the point of loosing your mind. Even worse than that you’ll start dreading the thought of practice or even playing guitar! Learn guitar has many ways to trick you into learning scales, seeing how we all need to learn scales. Why?

5 reasons why scale study is very important.

1. First of all they train your ears to recognize pitch change and key tones'font-size: 14.0pt;'>. This is very important to any one taking guitar lessons. This will help you tune your guitar or pick things up faster in a band situation or help you figure songs out on your own.
2. Help you to build a strong base for theory. Without even knowing it, you’ll be building a great theory base for future chord work and song structure.
3. Improves pick technique fast. This will show you were you might be getting a little sloppy.
4. This will help you improvise when called on it. Trust me on this one, by building melodies in your head that you can call upon.
5. When you sit down to transcribe (learn songs) on your own it will be a walk in the park. Or when you need to build a chord or solo you won’t even think about it.

With the correct way of studying guitar scales, it will be fun and interesting for you. Every guitar lesson should include some form of scale work, whether we trick you into it or not!!!!

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