How Many Guitar Scales Are There?

Posted: February 8th, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Guitar Fret | Tags: , , , | 6 Comments »

im teaching myself the guitar, what are the main scales and how many are there. also if you get good at the main ones is it easy to learn the others.
what elsedo i need to practice to be an excelent guitar player so far i am perfecting my
strumming technique and barre chords also trying to memorise the whole fretboard and 300 basic chords.

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6 Comments on “How Many Guitar Scales Are There?”

  1. 1 abc said at 10:49 pm on February 8th, 2010:

    There are SO many scales to learn, but the ones that work the best, sound the best, and play the best are: Major, minor, minor pentatonic, major pentatonic, “blues”(minor pentatonic with a flat 5th added,) dorian mode, mixolydian mode, locrian mode(for death metal – VERY satanic sounding,) phrygian mode, lydian mode, harmonic minor, harmonic major, etc. There are also cultural “scales,” like Chinese pentatonic, Arabic, Jewish, Indian, etc. However, the list of scales above are the most common and most useful. Hope I helped!

  2. 2 saltpaw said at 4:30 am on February 9th, 2010:

    There are a lot of different scales….
    There is:
    major
    natural minor
    harmonic minor
    melodic minor
    dorian
    phrgyian
    lydian
    mixolydian
    locrian
    Pentatonic
    Octatonic
    whole scale
    chromatic scale
    “blues scale”
    plus a lot more……
    A lot of these scales are built of the major and minor scales but some are their own entirely…..good luck

  3. 3 guitaris said at 7:43 am on February 9th, 2010:

    Basically we have 2 kinds of scales the major and the minor.
    In major we have, C, D, E, F, G, A, B, Db, Ab, Gb, And so on.
    And like wise you have in the minors.

  4. 4 caoimhin said at 1:54 pm on February 9th, 2010:

    i recommend checking out fret lordshttp://www.fretlords.com
    they have 250,000 tabs, and thousands of chords and scales
    and its all free

  5. 5 fox12121 said at 1:55 pm on February 9th, 2010:

    try this out:
    http://www.myguitarsolo.com/scales.htm

  6. 6 Trust me. said at 4:23 pm on February 9th, 2010:

    1 and its A pentatonic.

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