Originally Posted by: stevelabaI have been using GT to learn guitar(acoustic and electric) for the last year. I guess my goal is to have a better understading of the fretboard and improve dexterity.[/quote]The links above for Connecting Pentatonic Patterns will help fretboard mapping & dexterity for those scales.
These will help with diatonic scales. I do these every morning as warmup exercises. They are great for covering the fretboard in scales for ear training, visual mapping & dexterity because you completely cover the fretboard.
Major Scales 1
https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=453
Minor Scales 1
https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=887
Major Scales 2
https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=2643
Minor Scales 2
https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=2646
These links for visualizing the fretboard will also help your understanding of the fretboard.
Visualizing 1
https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=419
Visualizing 2
https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=898
Visualizing 3
https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=899
Visualizing 4
https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=462
[quote=stevelaba]
I just dont want to spend too much time learning every scale in the book.
Sure. And that's why it's important to know your end goals. Even the link above might be overkill if you only desire a certain level of playing or want to play a certain style of music. And just learning the basic major & minor scales in series 1 might be enough. But if you want to play rock or blues then your time might be better spent on leraning pentatonic scales & licks you can build with them.
In general, to all students I always recommend understanding & being able to play all major & minor scales, both diatonic & pentatonic.
With that in mind, the above links are aimed at diatonic. These exercises are aimed a complete understanding of pentatonic scales.
Pentatonic Scales
https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=296
Pentatonic Major
https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=722
Pentatonic Minor
https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=185
If you can be more specific about your goals I can narrow this down more. Hope that helps for now!
