Stay Awake Playing Scales on The Guitar

Playing scales can be boring, but that's only when you let the task make you a zombie. Stay awake to what's going on and watch your progress on the guitar skyrocket!

00:00 Demonstration
00:32 Thesis
01:02 Introduction
02:48 Lesson
10:30 Wrap Up

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Thanks for watching!
Chris

[avischachter]

Chris is one of the guys I found a few years ago when I got serious about guitar and he’s a gem. It’s criminal that’s he doesn’t have a 1MM plus subscribers. What an amazing teacher !

[kylehuber]

If Marty is our Obi Wan Chris is our Qui Gon Jin

[ManManny-jy]

Every time you post a lesson I have a new "Ah Ha" moment. Thanks man.

[snuffbox]

This lesson was made directly for me, just blindly running up and down scales, wondering how I can make sense of it all. Then I think, play G mixolydian from here and am struggling to jump to the next string thinking "is it 3 frets up or just 2?" Thank you Chris.

[chrispeleshenko]

Learning to keep the brain engaged, has been the most important lesson I have learned the past 2 years.

[tubetdf]

Wow! This video lesson, along with your Golden Warmup, provides a whole new context to making music (the heck with scales). And combining this 2nps with a pure single-string exploration (7nps?) is mind-blowing. Thanks!

[ripudamansinghpalawat]

you have made me so much better at guitar
i have seen almost all your vids from the playlists

[capbubba]

Staying awake is good advice while you’re note chasing, thanks Chris for all the great lessons.👍😎👍

[maryk]

Thanks for opening my mind. This will be interesting to play around with.

[juancarlospascual]

Just yesterday I was checking if you had uploaded new staff eventhough there are some videos here I haven't taken the time to practice for a couple of weeks, because I'm working on other subjects. But this is how we are curious!... Thank you for the knowledge!...

[belindadrake]

Great stuff! Thank you for sharing. I’m a guitarist- good to see different takes on scales. 👍🏽😈✨

[ForTheLoveOfGuitars]

Great video! Do you think looking at patterns (with the evil dots) is necessary for folks to try to memorize them, fail, then learn it's all about the intervals, not rote memorization of different patterns?

[uhklem]

I get what you're doing with the modes and will give it a try, Chis. But it seems like still a lot of mental math to adjust for the flats and I'm not getting how it's the same pattern all along the scale (yeah, I know B Dorian is A maj scale pattern starting on B as root but now it looks like the 2-string pattern is all different). I must have missed something will keep at it a while.

[timsellsted]

Such a great lesson! My brain hurts. 🧠

[jukejukewacko]

I look at this way make a question build on the question then answer it

[themacocko]

I have not received youtude notifications from this channel for months

[jasoncdebussy]

No, it turns out that broccoli is actually contraindicated

[guitarlamar]

This one isn’t doing it for me. I don’t see it useful to limit myself to 2 notes per string when soloing and improving.