Is There Any Point to Learning Scales, or Are They Only Good as a Warm-Up Exercise?
Cameron Hayes2024-09-16T21:07:56+01:00Yes, it’s great to run through some scales to warm up your fingers before jumping into your most recent song that you’re working on, but is that all that they’re good for? Absolutely not! Here are just a few examples of when you can draw on your knowledge of scales to make yourself a better guitarist and musician. Improvising One major area of playing an instrument that will require knowledge of scales is when you are improvising. Improvising will require prior knowledge of not only how to play scales on the guitar (or your instrument of choice), but when it [...]