How To Make Guitar Scales Sound Good

Once you've learned a guitar scale pattern, it's easy to get into the habit of playing in predictable, linear sequences up and down the scale. This lesson shows you how to make your guitar solos musical.

This lesson shows you how to navigate guitar scales in a musical way, by using simple sequencing forms such as note skipping, staggered runs and pedal notes.

You can apply these sequencing techniques in any scale pattern you might learn. Practicing scales in this way will help you develop your improvisation and writing skills.

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The most important thing is to listen to the music and find out what works for each part. Explore new music (jazz and all it's sub genres are often especially stimulating for revealing new patterns) and don't be scared of hitting occasional bum notes while practicing. If you play weird notes with conviction and don't "land" on them they can work really well in a run / lick.

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