The Blues Scale And Guitar
After I publish the guitar pentatonic scale lessons now I would like to share some blues lessons with you.
The blues guitar lessons below are written to explain blues scales for guitar. The major and minor blues scales are the basics of playing rock and blues guitar. While the minor blues scale is used in musical styles such as blues, rock, jazz and fusion, the major blues scale has a very cheerful sound and finds itself used in musical styles like country and bluegrass. Blues scales can be played interchangeably with the pentatonic scales.

Minor Blues Scale

Guitar Minor Blues Scale Box Patterns

Major Blues Scale

Guitar Major Blues Scale Box Patterns

Pentatonic Scales and Guitar
The pentatonic scales are the most commonly used scales in music. Learning the pentatonic scales has been an introduction to scales and modes for almost every guitar player. Most rock, blues, and heavy metal are based on the minor pentatonic scale. And you can find most country, country-rock, R&B tunes are based on the major pentatonic scale.
Theoretically, a pentatonic scale is a scale that contains five notes which are derived from a natural minor or a major scale by skipping the 4th and 7th degrees in a major scale, and the 2nd and 6th in a minor scale.

Why are the pentatonic scales so popular?
Are they easy to play? Easy to learn? sound good? simple? Probably all the answers would be "yes".
But for all the extensive use of these multi-purpose scales, the approach most guitarists take when playing them is usually quite simple. The pentatonic scales fall into easily fingering patterns called boxes or box patterns. Beginner guitarists mostly find it quite easy to learn some blues licks to play in the pentatonic scales. And even advanced guitarists usually apply pentatonic scales while improvizing. The pentatonic scale patterns also help guitarists to virtualize chords, other scale patterns and scale positions on their mind or just help them to find their way on the fretboard. Because the pentatonic scales are simple and well positioned on the fretboard to remember.
If you had a chance to learn just one scale and still wanted to play guitar, the scale would be the pentatonic scale. If you really want to play guitar you have to learn it. Just five notes!!
So that, learn minor and major pentatonic scales over the entire fretboard in any key. When we go further on pentatonic scale lessons you will find very useful information on how to learn pentatonic scales. There are certain pentatonic patterns that ease your work when learning, studying, remembering and practicing the pentatonic scales.
When you learn the scale very well, turn on the radio or the cd player and try to find what key the song is in when you get it, try pentatonic scales in that key; minor pentatonic scale , major pentatonic scale or blues pentatonic scale. Probably, the one of them will work!

You can find more information on guitar pentatonic scales below:

Minor Pentatonic Scale

Guitar Minor Pentatonic Scale Box Patterns

Major Pentatonic Scale

Guitar Major Pentatonic Scale Box Patterns

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New article from Tom Hess Plans Are Not Goals

Anyone who has read any of my articles related to the subject of learning/teaching guitar knows I am very goal oriented in my teaching. Before I begin teaching or coaching (yes there are differences between the two) I always begin by asking the student what his or her musical goals are (both the short and long term). Most of these students don’t really have (or at least aren’t able to communicate to me) any true goals. Because of this, they often have had only limited success in working with previous teachers, and usually even less success trying to teach themselves. It is easy getting almost every student to answer my question, “What are your short and long musical goals?” the problem is, they confuse plans with goals. In their mind, these two ideas are interchangeable, having the same meaning.[more..]