As a guitarist, understanding and mastering the scales is mandatory. Why? There are many benefits that you will get if you mastering the scales. First of all, I will explain, why many beginners guitarist feel hard to evolve during learning process even in the future.
Maybe some of us who ever learn how to play guitar with a self-taught or autodidact. Nothing wrong with that. Although a guitar instructor at the need to accelerate the learning process and avoid mistakes in the learning process.
I initially learned how to play guitar in a self-taught. I learnt how to play guitar until I can played many songs, even at that time I was able to written some songs. I used to familiar with my instincts in music. But ....
At this point, I felt restricted. I feel something is missing, I did not develop. I only play the music that I've ever heard. There is a limit creativity. I want more than this.
And during that time I decided to find a tutor, a guitar instructor, fortunately I found the right person. During my time of studying with him I found that music is held by what musician called with scales.
It turned out,scales are very important thing. From mastery of scales, I was finally able to penetrate the boundaries of the previously very disturbing. I gain the missing link, I get the key and bring my creative process to next level.
But in addition about what I have told you before, scales make you understand music more deeply, there are many advantages when studying and mastering them. And you can use as a "staple food" in your guitar practice.
Some advantages in practicing your scales is you will be more familiar with tone, you will train your hearing about the tone so that your instincts become sharper (learn by ear), you become more sensitive about the tone, train your fingers reflex, train finger speed, you will be improvise more creatively, creating and written songs with a lot easier.
And probably you can get more from mastering scales. I always recommend to all my students to have mastered. The philosophy is when we can read where the expertise we know the alphabet in our language. Then the scales are nothing but the alphabet in alphabetical-language music.
It is wise for you to learn scales on the right person. In addition to avoiding mistakes. As well as your musical development in the future. Teacher needed here who capable enough in the sense that can show and teach you how scales in improvising and written songs.
Knowing scales is mandatory. You must understand it!
