Guitar Scales: 5 Tips For Practicing Guitar Scales

Playing guitar scales is like eating vegetables. Everyone knows they are good for you, but not everyone gets their daily dose. Now I happen to like vegetables and playing scales can actually be fun too. Here are a few tips to help you start playing scales well.

1. Good Technique. The purpose of playing scales is to work on your guitar technique. Hence, it’s a good idea to focus on playing scales with very good technique. Do relax your hands and learn to play with minimum motion.

2. Practice Super Slow. Rather than speed through your scales, it’s best to start by playing them super slow and super accurate. After you can play them flawlessly slow, then start to speed them up a bit.

3. Understand Scales. It always helps to know ‘music theory on the guitar’ (link to http://www.worshipguitarclass.com/guitar-music-theory.html)

4. Use a Metronome. A metronome will help you develop an accurate inner clock plus you can use it to gradually increase the speed of your scales.

5. Be Consistent. It’s good to have a practice routine. If you practice and consistently work on your guitar skills, you will become a very good guitar player.

Playing guitar scales will help you to learn the entire fretboard. It will also help you to isolate working specifically on your guitar technique. You should be working to improve both the left hand dexterity and right hand.

One way to practice a scale is to play it with strokes on each note. Then, without changing the rhythm, play each note twice. Finally, play the run with each note being played once. This will help you speed up the scale. The second tip above is to play them super slow, but you don’t keep them super slow. It’s good to eventually start working on speed.

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