Boot Camp Series
Major Scale
Guitar Fretboard is very peculiar.
But, the recent interpretation of the fingerboard has been so far from that of the first pioneers: Andres Segovia, Django Reinhardt, and Wes Montgomery. All of them were world-tour guitarists, and they played diagonally over the fretboard.
FAQs
Why don’t you teach Scale Blocks or the CAGED system??
Have you seen the video? The great players did not study modes like the younger generation of college-educated musicians. Even Barry Harris said that someone taught modes just to earn money. The block scale system and CAGED system are the same as useless for me, who learned the guitar in the old-fashioned way from Richie Hart at Berklee College of Music.
Then how do I use this concept to play music?
You do not. You can not apply this concept to the music you want to play yet because where you should play the melody on the guitar is where the chords can harmonize it. So, the melody should be in the 1st or 2nd, or at least the 3rd string of the guitar.
Then why should I practice this scale form I cannot use to play music?
You cannot apply this just yet. However, the video below from 7:56 shows how Peter Bernstein transformed this same scale form for their needs and used it effortlessly.
I thought you did not teach scales and modes, but why are you doing this?
To play jazz as masters did, you should learn tunes right in the way I teach every Sunday at 10 PM on my YouTube Channel, then serviced on this website, and chords that support the melody, which I also have in the Boot Camp: Shell Voicing + Drop 2.
Then, I saw John Scofield's master class at the Musician's Institute. He said at the master class that practice scale as soon as possible, then learn songs and improvise over it.
I thought, hmm, John Scofield is saying what I am speaking. However, he did not teach how to learn the scales and modes fast in the master class. Then, I realized that I knew the fastest way to master the scales and modes from Richie Hart.
That’s why I want to share this scale Boot Camp to burden off jazz guitar lovers. You do not need to know the scales and modes to play jazz on the guitar. But if you want to understand the scales, this is the best way to learn them, and it will train your ear and know better how the fretboard was designed.
The true meaning of playing Guitar, like Piano.
The piano is almost the perfect instrument. The most significant of its pros is its structure that repeats in every octave. If you start to see it diagonally, the guitar fretboard is designed with the same concept that pioneers like Andres Segovia, Django Reinhardt, and Wes Montgomery played.
Django Line and Wes Line is the same concept.
Django and Wes played effortlessly over the fretboard using the same fingering over the same structure in two octaves. The exact structure in every octave is the secret to becoming a guitarist who shines the most at their time.
And we should do the same on the guitar.
Boot Camp: Major Scale will train you how the guitar pioneers navigate on the fretboard. The most significant benefit you could get from this boot camp is you will use your ear to distinguish the scales and modes rather than the eyes on the paper.
This is the ultimate choice to get out of the disgusting scale blocks that are useless while playing music.
You better start today because what you practice today may come to you only after 10 months if you do your best.
As John Scofield once said, "Don't run up and down the scale mindlessly... finish the scale practice ASAP..." This is the perfect routine for those who want to understand how the guitar fingerboard works in music.
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