Hit those Scale Patterns for the guitar, Joe.

Two octave Major Scales for starters.

The patterns are all over the internet.

Start with just one.

Play it slowly and evenly at first, from lowest note to highest note and then back down again.

Don't try to learn them all at once, but as soon as you remember and are able to play the first pattern fairly well, start working the second, and so on.

A very good drill for scale practice on any instrument:

Up and Down evenly covering every note in turn.

Up in thirds, then back down in thirds. This is literally "skipping every other note" - 13,24,35,46, etc and then, of course "unwinding" the same backwards until you get back to the lowest root you started on.

Then in threes: 123,234,345, etc. and unwind.

Then in fours: 1234,2345,3456


ALL Keys - which, with the closed string patterns, is the same pattern moving up the neck, but thinking what key you are in for each one, plus the name of each note in that key.

Evenly.

Learn the Major, the Harmonic minor and the Major and minor Pentatonic scales like that and you will amaze both yourself and others.


--Mac

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