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Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 9:09 pm
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Need help...i'm trying to find sites which offer complete guitar scales and chords for free...some would just give the scale position and thats it...tnx a lot :(

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This site has a lot of information on it.

http://www.justinguitar.com/


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www.all-guitar-chords.com/guitar_scales.php Is a great place to find that kind of stuff


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Try about.com and type in guitars and you should come accross an entire section of lessons. If you search through all the garbage, you should find what you're looking for as well.

And it copies easily to Word files so you can save them and print them out....ssshhhhhh.


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Thanks to Mshardie and Fender Strat for the links. I'm going to check them out later when I have some free time.


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Thanks a lot for the help...will check them out soon when i have the time...salamat :D

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As a pro guitarist who has also given lessons between tours, one of the best 'finger exercises' I recommend & I still use myself is: the nut position chromatic ascent & decent 'walk'. You can single pick it at first to get it smooth and then double pick it as you progress from low E to G# or A, 2 & a half octaves up and back down. (Later, you can move it up to play all notes fretted, but that requires a 1-fret drop, toward the headstock, each time as you go across the fingerboard. *Except the G or 3rd string* > see below.)

The initial nut-position fingering & picking exercise starts with the low open E & your index then frets the F. Next, your middle finger frets the F# or Gb, then you fret the G with your ring finger & finally fret the G# or Ab with your pinky. You continue on to the 5th or A string with the same fretting movements, except when you get to the third or G string. At that point you switch to the B or 2nd string before you fret with the pinky, as the normal or standard tuning between G & B is one fret shorter. (IE: the guitar is tuned in "fourths" except from G to B it is a Major third.) When you reach the high E you can reverse the exercise. Go slow at first and increase your speed as you smooth out the transitions between strings. After that you can begin working on your picking technique. It's a great 'warm up' for ANY guitarist's hands & fingers, no matter how long you've been playing. Seriously, even after 40+ years, I still use it.

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thanks guitarman1117 will give it a try...

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You are very welcome. BTW: You might best copy & paste such lesson info to a word program or your eMail's 'Compose'. Then you can alter as needed, such as text size or even change the font and hence, print it out.
Another finger exercise starts on low F and is a 'triplet' Do-Ti-Do thing.
F, E, F & F#, F, F# & G, F#, G & G#, G, G# & A, G#, A & so forth. All the way up each string OR across the neck, like the first exercise.

Such Chromatic fingering warm-ups can be used musically, in part or a full octave, etc. There was a Cheap Trick tune that had a chromatic descending run in it, a full octave if I remember right, but I forget the song title. As a little 'trill', the one here can be done with just the first note picked and the finger lifted to the lower note and then 'hammer' the first note back on.

Exercises of this type help to get ones fingers to move without much 'forced thought' behind them and they begin to give your digits a mind of their own. You will be glad you learned these when you work on scales of any type or nature. IE: Modes that root off scales. Note: Always work them both ascending AND descending, get your string jumps smooth & then build your speed and in doing so, employ a variety of different picking techniques.

Here is something all musicians should know & understand: Once you can play the notes of any scale, root position, up (ascending) & down (descending) one or more octaves, you can multiply that knowledge by at least 5 times with Mode Scales. They are simply using those same scales but from other notes in the scale as a new (Mode) Root. The original one (Do to Do) is called Ionian and is the primary scale that is 'coded' by #'s or b's (sharps or flats) in written music scores to inform the player of the KEY being used. The next, (Re to Re), is called Dorian and is used a lot in Latin tunes such as material by Carlos Santana. The third one is called Phrygian (Frig-ee-an) and has a typical 'Spanish' flavor to it. The fourth one is known as Lydian and the fifth is Mixo-Lydian. The sixth one is Aeolian (A-o-Lee-an) that people like Carlos and tons of other players have used for years. Not only is this the 'Relative Minor' KEY scale and used in R&R in several scale-note versions or 'alterations', but it can also be played (using one or more of those versions) against Major chord exchanges as well. The last is called Locrian (Lock-ree-an) and is rarely used due to its association with a 'diminished' scale. Learn and apply these to all of the KEY ROOT scales and you will acquire a handle on just about any type of *Western Hemisphere* music there is. It may even help understand some Eastern types. (NOTE: Be aware that some songs may use just one Scale or Mode for an entire piece while other songs might use several and may also jump around between Keys, Scales &/or Modes.)

One last item: The Ventures used the 'Do-Ti-Do' thing on notes of a minor scale in a song called Runnin' Wild. It occurs both prior to the bridge-mid section and again (a longer line) at the end of the song. In my opinion, (& from personal experience), any -GUITAR- instrumental song you can learn, (such as a Ventures tune or Duane Eddy, etc.) will give you more insight to the interplay between musical parts, (Lead lines, rhythms & chords, etc.) especially in a 4 or 5 piece guitar based band. Go to: triple W . purevolume . com, click the Search tab and enter FANTUM (click Search again), then click on the album art and you will be on a page that I posted of Ventures-type material totally re-performed & re-recorded with help from several musical friends. ENJOY.


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