A stupidly effective scale drill

Sometimes we just have to do boring stuff. But this scale drill is so effective it won't matter!

Take a swing at it...see where it leads you!

00:00 Introduction
01:44 Lesson
07:22 Wrap Up

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Thanks for watching!
Chris

[Mr.Krinkle]

"Repetition is not repetition, The same action makes you feel something completely different by the end."

[WalktheWalk-kikj]

I began using alternate picking technique early in my playing. Within a few years it was second nature and I don't even think of my picking because it is intuitive. I have been playing guitar now for way over 50 years.

[rickforliberty]

Been playing a long time but only started my deep music theory understanding a little over a year ago. This stupidly helpful (simple) lesson just unlocked the whole fretboard and music itself for me. If I learned my scales way back I would have saved so much time and vinyl figuring out songs. lol. Just stumbled onto your channel, great lesson. Subscribing.

[jamesanderson]

Wow. Good timing. I've been going over about 5 or 6 of your old videos today. And, here you are with a new one. Thanks!!

[christianhoffman]

Scales in my opinion are the single best thing you can practice. I am by no means what many may consider "good" but I have gotten more out of practicing scales than anything else - oh and getting a foot rest to hold instrument like a classical guitarist. That changed a lot for me.

[barruzza]

Another GREAT lesson. Thanks so much for putting this together and sharing.

[JCFern]

The premise is simple enough, but deceptively tricky if you haven’t worked much on true alternate-picking. I’m at work right now, but I’ll take this for a spin later today.

My big takeaway is that I just realized and recognized that this very idea is actually used in a lot of lead-playing and soloing!

Solid lesson as always Cap’n!

[michaelhylemon]

Thanks so much for these lessons. I found your site recently, but have had several Aha moments. :) Your lesson on using octaves to learn the notes on the fretboard was very helpful.Your helpful lessons along with a few others on face book have ignited the spark in this 65 year old, and I am now obsessed with learning! I hope you don't mind me sharing that Shane Theriot's Guitar Channel has a great lesson " Master the Notes On The Neck! where the drill is to play each note on each string (without playing any open strings) low to high and back to a metronome for 5 minutes per day. I think this would be helpful to anyone on this journey. Thanks again!!😎

[officialWWM]

4:21 running up the scale like that sounds so cool!

[stephenmahlstedt]

These are great exercises, Chris. I spent some time with them tonight and will be adding them to my daily practice. I’m starting to enjoy scale exercises. Not only are they helping with my technique and to help me see more patterns across the neck, but they can be somewhat cathartic to play once you have them under your fingers.

[michaelfant]

That was fun to do. A little while ago I figured out the patten for the notes, bit just hitting each note once was boring.
This made it fun.

[nickmendens]

I realised that playing these exercises over Pachelbel's Canon in D is a great bit of fun. I set the chord progression in an app and play over the top

[marvinwantstolearn]

Thank you so much! This is something that is clear and doable by anyone especially for someone who is a beginner in their 60s.

[bobbob]

Excellent exercise. The next steps for me are to do it again in minor, blues, Dorian, etc to better understand each of those scales.

[efthimoskaragiannidis]

That AHA moment then led me to another one that in standard tuning you can play the major scale of the note of each of the strings at the same frets: 2, 4, 5, 7, 9 11, 12 WWH, WWWH. I also loved your lesson on the Circle of 5ths. I have been struggling to memorise the fretboard now it has become a lot easier... now to just get musical..🎶😅

[venturaVlogger]

An overwhelming brain bending exercise, but gives a whole new approach to doing riffs and melodic solos. First time for me to hear that, makes me wanna dig on some books on this, thanks so much. For many years i play by ears and chords

[FlowerdyPilllow]

Thanks so much, Chris! Will give this a whirl in my next session tomorrow. Always super informative lessons from you - thanks again! From (another) Chris!

[edhencher]

Thanks Chris. Always appreciate when you share your knowledge

[luisvolpon]

Excellent lesson!! This exercise will be a game changing for me, and the coolest part is that is very musical. Thanks for teaching us.

[efthimoskaragiannidis]

One of the best lessons on the I think you're stupid if you don't know it or don't get it... I had a massive AHA moment with this lesson.. especially if you can play the 3 chords ADG ... sheer genius!!! Excellent lesson. Thank you very much!!!