Why I Stopped Practicing Guitar Scales (and Got Better at Playing Solos)
Updated: 2013-01-29 11:00:00
skip to main skip to sidebar Not Playing Guitar If you're reading this then you're not practicing guitar . But then again , you might learn something useful . 29 January 2013 Why I Stopped Practicing Guitar Scales and Got Better at Playing Solos On my bookshelf I have a collection of classical studies for guitar by Fernando Sor and Matteo Carcassi Fernando Sor is famous for his numerous studies short guitar exercises that have formed a staple part of classical guitar learning since the early 19th . century How many scales are played in the 100 pages of music notation Not one Instead , the book is filled with melodic exercises designed to develop dexterity and skill with both fretting and picking . hands Who Wants to Play Scales Like many of us I learned about the pentatonic scale boxes
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