The Number One Mistake Guitarists Make When Learning Guitar Scales
There is a really common mistake that many guitarists make when learning guitar scales. This one mistake slows down their rate of progress drastically. What do you think it is? It is simply this
They try to learn every single scale there is!
I did this myself when I first started playing guitar. I bought one of those thick guitar scale books and set about trying to learn them all. I was spending hours and hours a day learning the scales in the book. I thought that to be a master of scales I had to know them all! I soon realized that I was making a big mistake
Now why on earth would this be a mistake? Surely the more guitar scales you know the better right? Wellif you had seventeen lifetimes to learn them all, then this would be true. But the fact is, our time on this planet is limited. There is just not enough time to learn every possible scale!
So why does trying to learn huge numbers of guitar scales potentially slow down your progress? Here are four big reasons
1. Youll feel overwhelmed.
Just thinking that you have to learn hundreds of scales puts you in a...