Learning scales
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2015 8:36 pm
Hi Gordon,
Just read your twitter post that said "After playing the guitar for nearly 55 years I have decided to start learning scales"
As someone who is struggling to get past the beginner stage and who has always been unsure of the benefit of scales to the bedroom guitarist, thinking they were for the professionals, (ie yourself). To read that by implication you don't know them has left me uplifted but confused.
If an artist such as yourself can develop a body of work so extensive and so critically acclaimed without a knowledge of scales, would it be pertinent of me to ask why you or anyone else for that matter needs to learn them?
I only ask out of curiosity and wonder as well of course, musical ignorance.
Kind regards
Kevin
Just read your twitter post that said "After playing the guitar for nearly 55 years I have decided to start learning scales"
As someone who is struggling to get past the beginner stage and who has always been unsure of the benefit of scales to the bedroom guitarist, thinking they were for the professionals, (ie yourself). To read that by implication you don't know them has left me uplifted but confused.
If an artist such as yourself can develop a body of work so extensive and so critically acclaimed without a knowledge of scales, would it be pertinent of me to ask why you or anyone else for that matter needs to learn them?
I only ask out of curiosity and wonder as well of course, musical ignorance.
Kind regards
Kevin