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Advanced Guitar Lesson – Visualizing Major Scales Quickly And Easily Pt.2

In Advanced Guitar Lessons | on December, 17, 2009 | by | 18 Comments

This lesson continues our study of visualizing every major scale in every key all over the fingerboard using 3 notes per string scale forms.

Here is when we really start to dive into what this method is all about. It does take a thorough knowledge of your keys to do this method, but after that I think you will see that the whole fretboard will just open up for you.

This method is also EXTREMELY easy to use with modes, which I will be talking about in the future as well.

Please take your time and let this stuff just sink in. It isn’t supposed to be incredibly fast in the beginning, but I think you will find that you will get there a lot quicker than you think. Just do in consistently.

Please leave me any questions or comments that you might have.

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Visualizing Major Scales Quickly And Easily Pt.2

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18 Responses

Patrick
12.17.09

Oh my god thank you! I had this very same exact idea, but I was not able to express it clearly to any one else, but now that I have heard this out loud, I think I will never have trouble explaining it again! Amazing job man, I love all your videos! They are great! I really appreciate you putting them up. I have invited all my friends to your site and I have given it a thumbs up on stumbleupon!

Carl Brown
12.17.09

Thank you so much Patrick for taking the time to show your support for my lessons. I think its great you are willing to spread the word about this site. I hope to see a lot of your friends around here soon!!

Thanks again for following along!! :D

Mike
12.17.09

thanks, Carl… I was going 2 try doing this when i finished the 3-note per string major lesson, and i think your lessons have given me even more knowlege on scales. :)

Andy
12.17.09

Very useful dude!

Steve Luko
12.17.09

HOLY MOLY!!!…A new door has just opened up for me…I’v been shredding for almost 9 years and now its going to a new level!!

zack
12.17.09

this is awesome i have a few books and a scale book or two and they all give me 5 positions that start from the root i was having such a hard time visualizing the neck this lesson has showed me in a matter of minutes what was going to take me many many hours to learn thank you so much when i get ahead on some cash i will donate to this site

Brian
12.17.09

Your lessons are great. I will make sure I donate…I only have one question and I think I’m just confusing myself…If you are, say playing in the key of F like you were saying from the A region, is F considered your Root( the note you should stop & start on) or is it the A? Since it’s the 3rd note of the scale you are deriving it from? Thanks…like I said I think I know but I’m just thinking to much…lol. Brian. Dallas TX

sherise
12.17.09

great site!!!! extremely helpful in filling in blanks for me

Yike Lu
12.17.09

What I find extremely valuable from this lesson is the organizing principle for memorizing all the notes.

I have been playing for quite a while, have been a shredder, and know my theory quite well. But when it came time to actually memorize the notes and “know the fretboard cold”, I had trouble figuring out how to do it systematically without boring myself. I was stuck in “I can shred in A minor, and I know how to figure out the other keys, but I just never do.”

Bravo for putting together a nice system for that. I actually think it would be quite valuable to have a lesson that goes over the progression to really learn the fretboard with chords included.

Mike Brumley
12.17.09

I have been playing the guitar for over forty years and have enjoyed the experience tremendously. Your online lessons and videos are proof positive to me that you can teach an ole’ dog new tricks. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge and talent. Will be supporting Guitar 365.
Thanks again,

Carl Brown
12.17.09

Thanks a bunch Mike! Glad you are enjoying the lessons!

Hope to hear form you a lot in the future!

Carl..

Damian BArabino
12.17.09

Hey Carl cheers from Uruguay (south america) I came across to your website on you tube and found the site great.

You’re great theacher indeed, and hope you continue with the good work, you’re the “guitarist painkiller”

Have a nice day!

Carl Brown
12.17.09

Hey Damian, thanks for checking out my site. I do plan on continuing the updates for a very long time to come so I hope you will keep checking back. :D

Cheers! Carl..

Jake Mikolas
12.17.09

Yes, Im not quite sure how much you check this comments anymore, but I just watched this video and it blew my mind. I took an AP Theory class last year in High School and it helped me with my musical knowledge, so I was able to understand everything you were talking about and it really helped me understand my fretboard. Thank you so much.

Carl Brown
12.17.09

Hey Jake, thanks a lot for the kind comment. Glad you enjoyed the lesson!

Carl…

Mark Leary
12.17.09

Super Lesson Carl!
Is it possible to make a tab of a the “A”, “B”, “C#” or some combination of the scales from the A region? The rest of the scales could be left for an exercise. I have learned the major scales in a different shape for years and I would like to practice this form instead of “chasing the root”. Having a few tabs will help me visualize the scale degrees as you played them. Thanks!

Greg Heidel
12.17.09

Great job, Carl, I am really enjoying the lessons even though I am new to the site. I signed up and donated as well. I hope you can keep this site going for as long as possible!

Carl Brown
12.17.09

Thanks a bunch for the support Greg! With support from people like yourself this site will never go away and will only become bigger and bigger through the years!

Cheers! Carl..

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