Let's face it. Most of us (including myself!) often feel discomfort when making big changes to the way that we do things. And this is especially true when learning electric guitar. It is all too easy to let our comfort zone and avoidance of discomfort stop us from making the progress on guitar that we deserve.
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Learning to improvise lead guitar solos can be an extremely rewarding experience. There's an amazing feeling when you manage to play something off-the-cuff that sounds great. At the same time, learning to improvise can also be an incredibly frustrating experience at times. I'm sure almost every guitarist has gone through phases of feeling like they can't express themselves how they would ideally like. (I know that I have certainly felt frustrated with my improvising at times!).
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Let's face it…the reason why most people pick up the electric guitar initially is to learn songs. I know that's what I did. When I first started playing guitar my goal was to play the songs of my favorite band (which at the time was Metallica). And I had a lot of fun doing it! 
As well as doing it for the fun aspect, learning guitar songs can be tremendous for building your guitar technique. Each song you learn can provide valuable technical training that elevates your overall guitar playing. (If you learn the song in a way that builds technique).
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Are you learning jazz but don't know what jazz guitar scales you need to master first? Are you overwhelmed with how many jazz guitar scales you need to learn? If you answered yes to either question, then you are in the right place!
Where Jazz Guitar Scales Are Used
This might be stating the totally obvious, but I'll say it anyway. Jazz guitar scales are used to solo over jazz chord progressions. It's hardly an earth-shattering statement, but it does bring up a really good point…
To find out what jazz guitar scales you need to learn, you first need to think of what chord progressions you are going to solo over.
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Most guitar players who have been playing lead guitar for a while have come across these two pentatonic scales…
These are both extremely useful scales for many styles of guitar playing. And they are definitely the pentatonic scales that I recommend learning and mastering first.
But did you realize that there are many other different types of pentatonic guitar scales?
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A fantastic way of improving your pentatonic scale chops is to master the same exercise using different guitar techniques. By experimenting with different techniques you improve your pentatonic chops in a very creative way. It also helps to improve your versatility as a guitarist. The more techniques you master the better!
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One of the most important tasks that you face as an improvising guitarist is to massively expand your soloing vocabulary. And a great way of doing that is by memorizing new guitar licks on a regular basis.
In this guitar scale lesson we'll look at two cool sounding licks that make use of the following two scales…
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In this article we take a look at a really useful fingering for the major pentatonic scale. As I mentioned in an earlier article on pentatonic guitar scales, the major pentatonic scale is a vital scale to master. There are probably thousands of rock, blues, jazz and fusion guitar solos that use it…so learn the stuff in this lesson well!
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In this guitar lesson we take a look at a very powerful way of mastering the minor pentatonic scale…melodic patterns! We'll do that by taking a look at two really useful scale exercises. Before we get started, if you don't know what the minor pentatonic scale is, be sure to read this article on pentatonic guitar scales. Once you've done that, I'll see you back here!
Please take a look at the fretboard diagram below. This is the minor pentatonic fingering that we'll use for this lesson. It shows the A Minor Pentatonic scale.
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In this article we take a quick look at two of the most widespread and important pentatonic guitar scales. It is essential that you learn to master them. But before we look at them…what the heck is a pentatonic scale anyway? Simply put, pentatonic scales are five-note scales. Anytime a scale has five notes it can conveniently be called a pentatonic scale. Pretty simple huh? Let's now take a look at what I feel are the two most common ones…
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