What is the point of guitar scales?!


Question: What is the point of guitar scales!?
What are they!? Do I have to learn them!? What actual purpose do they serve or am I wasting time learning them!?

I went to this site about guitar scales and theres like a hundred, each with its own chord!.

http://www!.all-guitar-chords!.com/guitar_!.!.!.

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A scale, makes a song

Basically, songs are made up of the notes of the chromatic scale (containing all 12 pitches sharps, flats naturals the lot) arranged in a particular way!.

Those are the scales you use to write a song

For example

Say you were playing a song in C major

It would do to know that the C major scale contains no flats or sharps and the notes C,D,E,F,G,A,B,C

That is why its helpful to know the scales

If i was playing a song, particularly improvising and i knew the key was C major then i know that the notes from the C major scale are the best choice!.

It is never a waste of time learning music theory

However, that said, if you wanted to play guitar without the knowledge and just for a bit of a hobby every now and again

Then you could learn using guitar tabs in which case you'd not necessarily need to understand scales

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They will help you grasp theory!. And write songs in a far less random fashion!. when i first started playing, I would just fret and hope until i found the right sound which took forever!. When you know scales you can say "I can base it around ____ scale because it sounds ____" and it will help you play with other people without using tabs!. Theory is one of the best ways to start music!.

I fell into the trap of learning by ear and then strugging when i met musically trained musicians!.!.!.I could play technically just as well as them if not better, but if they wanted to change keys, I'd just be there looking puzzled!.

If you started learning recently, Try and learn as much theory as possible!. You'll be able to jam with people, write songs and eventually transcribe!.Www@Enter-QA@Com

If you wanna be a great guitarist like!.!.!. Van halen, Steve Vai, Joe satriani etc!.!.!. Scales are the key to knowing the guitar neck through and through! it gives you note positions and wat chords will fit over that!. it makes it easier to know chords and how to mae chords!. I personally haven't given scales the time and I only know the major and blues scale!. If you are a new guitar player i'd learn scales and how to make chords in the beginning before you get into bad habits! take a course in music, it'll do wonders on your theory side of music!Www@Enter-QA@Com

I'm not a guitarist so I'm not the most helpful resource, however learning how to play scales most definately cannot hurt you!.Www@Enter-QA@Com



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