Is it really necessary to learn all the guitar scales?

Like everyone else says, you should only learn the scales that you need for the style of music you're trying to play. But… how do you know what scales those are? There is no neatly bounded box around each style with scales belonging unambiguously within that box. read more

Try out the different scales it gives you, and if you find anything that you need in your playing, go learn it on guitar. Also, I designed a couple of online music theory courses with Soundfly that present the material within the context of familiar current pop music, you might find those helpful as well. read more

The best way to learn it that I found is to start with F major and learn all 7 hand positions, the reason this will be a good place to start is that all scales have the same 7 hand positions and position 1 is going to be the same pattern in any note. read more

Scales are the foundation of all lead guitar work and make it easy for you to crank out awesome single-note melodies. When people start to learn guitar scales they unwittingly cross a ‘bridge’ and start understanding music theory. read more