Have you tried YouTube?
I'll bet you can find plenty of scales there.
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OK, what you want to look for and find, for free on the net now - is someone talking about the C-A-G-E-D system. What that is, is a very efficient way of finding what are called "boxes" by guitarists. These are visual little
mental map constructions right on the fingerboard that you learn to see, and eventually move them around. What the CAGED thing does is breaks down each position where you start off - five different ways to play a C-major scale. And music, and the guitar neck representation of it. It's a very powerful way of drawing MAPS up and across the neck getting your ass
up the fingerboard (and bring the fingers along)!
I've taught lessons off and on for 20 years or so, and I fear the "Just take lessons!" mantra, because an awful lot of "teachers" don't really know what button to push first, so they push READING MUSIC. Which I think is important, and I can, and do - but for someone in your state, the two things I would push is that you start right off in playing MUSIC, not exercises; and that it be enjoyable enough that it doesn't seem like work.
SO: put your middle finger on the 5th fret of the bottom string. Now, every note that's on a dot on the 6th string, 5th string and 4th string are notes in the A minor scale. You just look at that...
thing that's laying there on the fingerboard, from the 3rd fret to the 7th fret. It's two, connected, boxes. You can roam up and down it for a while, but scales get deadly dull that way so try to break them up, play a low note, play a high note... one in between, one note twice as long, it's endless. It might be fun to try to make one note SOUND really good, and sneak up on it in different ways...
And the two best things you can do for yourself - when that noodling above sounds a little bit like music - nursery rhymes, whatever - CHASE THAT DOWN. HARD. Doesn't matter if it's a Christmas carol, chewing gum ad, Black Sabbath,
find the next note! It's either higher, lower, or the same - it can't really NOT be there. :icon_scratch:
And the other thing is to make yourself a map of the entire fretboard. You can find one online, but you won't remember it as well as if you draw it, and you need these maps eventually anyway. In a word processing program, set the orientation on "landscape" - this will be in the "format" file. It's just tipping the paper the long way. Then make a table with 14 columns and 8 rows. Print it out and dot in just the notes of the C major scale - you can figure that out. DON'T fill in the other notes, because you want to see - and remember - the boxes that are formed. You could maybe make all the C notes big circles, and all the A notes bigger dots? :laughing7:
As far as writing things down vs. just finding more and more internet stuff, my students used to kill me. Come in all hyper-excited "I found a place to get any scale, see?" And they'd punch in a double harmonic scale in F# and I'd say "Great! Where is it?" And they'd point to the screen and say "There! There! See?" and me look real close at their fingers and guitar neck and say "But, where IS it?" Dickhead that I am... :glasses9:
arty07: I will check out the caged system soon I'm sure, for now, have your eyes and ears melted..
