Hello again, and thanks for joining us back here for learn the guitar lesson nineteen! If you’ve been following our beginners guitar lessons series, by now you should have a pretty good grasp of scales, and have a good inventory guitar chords. If you missed earlier lessons, it might be a good time to go back and see what you’ve missed.

Today, we’re going to get back to guitar tablature and guitar scales, and do some pretty cool exercises! When playing these guitar scale exercises, the preferred picking pattern is alternate up and down strokes.

Note that the fret numbers on the tablature also correspond the fingers used, since we are playing in the “first”, or “open” position. The first exercise is in C major, followed by the relative minor of C, A minor.

Guitar Scale Exercise In C Major

Guitar Scale Exercise In A Minor

Guitar Scale Exercise In G Major

Notice how we jumped around a bit, and didn’t really favor any particular note. By doing this, you can come up with melodies, solos, bass parts, and other guitar parts. Play around with your own versions, and create other guitar scale exercises for practice.

Working on different picking patterns and rhythms is helpful too. Listen to the audio guitar lesson (#19) for some suggestions. Hope you enjoyed these exercises, and don’t forget to join us back here soon for beginners guitar lesson #20 where we will get stuck into some guitar chord exercises. Until then Rock On!

Scotty Smith and Matt Mckay
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