Ive been writing my own song on guitar and I was wondering…
If you know all the notes on the fretboard that make up the "Key of E" do you even need to learn the scales that make it up?
by the way, this question is directed towards me making my solo, not the rest of the song.
1st answer- thanks, I would much rather learn all the notes than the scales.
I’ve long known the Diatonic Scale, which is the do, re,me bit and can play that scale in any key. In my personal study the scales haven’t been that important to me.
The scale that has been most helpful is the Chromatic Scale, which notes ascend or descend in half-step intervals on the fretboard. Identifying the moveable chords and individual notes along the fretboard are made possible by knowing the Chromatic Scale.
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If you know all the notes, I don’t see any reason to
I play the guitar, and I know no scales whatsoever. However, if you are taking lessons or are looking to make a career out of writing music, it might help you to know the scales.
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I’ve long known the Diatonic Scale, which is the do, re,me bit and can play that scale in any key. In my personal study the scales haven’t been that important to me.
The scale that has been most helpful is the Chromatic Scale, which notes ascend or descend in half-step intervals on the fretboard. Identifying the moveable chords and individual notes along the fretboard are made possible by knowing the Chromatic Scale.
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Guitar picker of 54 years
Learning music theory is good for enhancing your flexibility as a musician. Practice is what you can do and what works, while theory helps you understand WHY it works and how to apply it further. Learning scales can be important especially for composing because it helps familiarize you with tonality. Most songs are based on a major or minor scale, sometimes with chromatic (off-key) notes used sparingly. Of course whatever style you choose to write in is up to you, but the more music theory you learn, the easier it is to write music because you start recognizing which musical elements sound good together and which don’t. When you apply that knowledge to an instrument, it tends to be easier to play as well because you start understanding the relationships between each part of it.
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I agree with the answer above. Even if you are not making a huge career out of it, if you are in a group and they start playing in some key, and you know which key it is because you’ve learned and memorized your scales, you can improvise all you want AND sound amazing doing it
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Personal experience–I play tenor sax
ofcourse dude
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if you learn the pentatonic scale patterns it will be much easier for you to play leads. and you will even be able to play in the right key.
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If you are writing your own music and you only know the E major scale then you suck at the guitar. If you learn all the notes and do not understand their connection to each other then you suck at the guitar. If you learn anything. Learn the pentatonic scales ( major and minor). Every blues song contains these scales and chords.
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