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I think I need to practice my scales but it is so boring when I do you almost cry.

Is there a way with BB to make scale practice more fun?



"Always try to make anything and everything you play sound musical."

A private teacher I had long ago stressed (maybe drummed) that sentence into me and I'm glad he did.

Proper scale practice, played with the metronome hittin' on 2 and 4, which is done inside your head by turning that met beat around, can be a beautiful and sonorous thing, man. Or it can be made to sound like a hideous drill. Avoid the latter, as that will only reinforce playing non-musically.

Some first pointers, try to Crescendo when moving upscale, Decrescendo when moving downscale. Note that wind instrument players and vocalists often will do that naturally.

Practice scales in full, then in threes, then in fours: CDE, DEF, EFG, FGA, etc. is threes. fours, add the next note to the pattern: CDEF, DEFG, EFGA, etc. and don't forget to unwind. And always keep that fingering constant as per scale books (for the keyboardist as well as the guitarist).

**Check out the BB Scale Generator function. Here we can have BB generate all the right scales on the Soloist Track for the chord changes of the song that is loaded. BB will play them on the chosen patch while the notes on the notation view highlight and scroll. A dynamite way to not only learn how to grab a correct scale over a chord, but a great way to speed up all aspects to include sight reading single notes, ear training and note selection for improvisation, all at one time. In addition to practicing the given scale runs, one can open up their arpeggiating skills by doing a couple of runs playing every other note in the given scales.**

Soloist -> Generate Scales

One button, fast, can be done over any loaded songfile.


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