Play Scale Forms Anywhere On The Guitar And Make Them Sound Like Music Instead Of Mundane And Boring Hoopla!

One of the biggest problems players have is that they learn a few scales and try to start soloing. That's all fine and dandy but... Knowing a few scales does not make a solo!

In most cases, a guitarist will take said scale and start playing it over a jam track and instantly recognize that it just sounds like a bunch of boring notes. There's no "feel", no destination, no conclusion or "wrap up". If you happen to be falling into this problem yourself, don't fret! It's easy to over come. In this this article, you'll see a very simple step you can put into action that will change all of that.

Here's all you need to do...

Let's just assume we are working with the basic Pentatonic Minor Scale. You can apply this to Learning Blues Guitar, Playing Christian Guitar Licks On The Guitar and any other form of Guitar Lessons. Just try it.

Start off by making a mental picture of your scale. Next, start thinking (for lack of a better term) "in reverse". In other words when you play your scale forms crawl up it forwards and go back down the scale backwards. Sound bass-akwards? It is but it's easy as pie to do.

Let it explain it for you...

Typically, a player might start on the bottom string (the high E) and run up the pentatonic in the following fashion.

E----8----5

B----8----5

G----7----5

D----7----5

A----7----5

E----8----5

Easy enough!

But let's reverse it when we start on that high E and do it like this...

E----5----8

B----5----8

G----5----7

D----5----7

A----5----7

E----5----8

Now that sounds cooler! Right?

Alright then. Let's start on the top string now and instead of going in the typical fashion like this:

E----5----8 (TOP "LOW" E STRING)

A----5----7

D----5----7

G----5----7

B----5----8

E----5----8

Let's run it this way instead...

E----8----5

A----7----5

D----7----5

G----7----5

B----8----5

E----8----5

Pay close attention how I have the strings stacked for illustration purposes. The are stacked in order of play.

Once you wrap your ears around this and get it down, it's simple and it's enormously powerful for playing scale forms anywhere on the guitar and making it sound like kick-but music instead of just boring guitar scales.

IMPORTANT SIDE NOTE: Just because you start a scale at the top (or bottom) does NOT mean you have to run through the entire scale! Think about what I'm saying here! It's critical!

Try starting at the top using this technique and only going down a few strings and then go to the bottom in reverse (meeting back in the middle).

This alone can take your guitar licks in whole new directions and make your playing sound light years ahead of where you've been!

Check it out and watch what happens in a matter of a few minutes! You'll be amazed.

Shoot me a note and let me know how it works for you.