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Guitar scales are something that everyone says you should work on… yet it seems like very few people do. If you have been paying attention, you haven’t noticed me covering any guitar scales so far. There is a good reason for that…

I am just beginning my odyssey into learning guitar, still working on those open chords… but I am definitely interested in guitar scales. I know a piano player that tells me that whenever you see someone heading off on an improvised solo, they are almost always just running throug a bunch of scales. I have a feeling it is the same thing with guitar solos… I bet they are based on scales, and the guitarist is just running through a bunch of scales that his or her teacher shoved down his or her throat.

In any case, I have a lot of interest in guitar scales… so I went off in search of some good resources for them. As usual, the Internet is the guitarist’s best friend - I still can’t imagine learning the guitar in the days before the World Wide Web.

In any case, this site is really cool, it has all kinds of different guitar scales, and you can actually listen to them. HOWEVER, it really doesn’t do a very good job of telling you what those scales are, or how to read guitar scales.

This site was another amazing resource… but again, great diagrams and not much explanation of guitar scales.

So I found a couple of nice sites, but I am still looking for some help on the basics. If anyone comes up with anything great on guitar scales, let me know…