Guitar Scales | Guitar Scale Mastery
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ATTENTION: MOTIVATED IMPROVISING GUITARISTS...
"HERE\'S HOW TO PERMANENTLY TATTOO GUITAR SCALES INTO YOUR BRAIN AND
FINGERS, WHILE ALSO IMPROVING YOUR TECHNIQUE, SPEED, IMPROVISING AND
MUSICALITY!"
FROM: CRAIG BASSETT
(Professional guitarist, guitar tutor and author)
Dear fellow guitar fanatic,
Before we go any further, let me say that WHAT I\'M ABOUT TO OFFER
YOU IS NOT RIGHT FOR EVERYONE. And because I don't want to waste your
time, could you please ask yourself three quick questions...
* Can I improvise solos with the level of fluidity, skill and
musicality that I truly want?
* Can I see all the scales that I want to know over the entire
fretboard...without having to think?
* Do I currently use an organised, effective and proven system for
learning scales?
IF YOU ANSWERED "YES" TO ALL THREE QUESTIONS...THEN YOU DON\'T NEED
TO READ ANY FURTHER.
Still with me? Yes? Great! Please read the rest of this page
carefully. It's quite long, but it is important that you read every
word. That way you'll understand exactly what you stand to gain...
DO ANY OF THE FOLLOWING PROBLEMS SOUND FAMILIAR?...
YOU FEEL OVERWHELMED BY HOW MANY SCALES YOU NEED TO LEARN. Let's
face it. There are huge numbers of scales that you could learn. It is
sometimes hard to even know where to start! This frustration and
overwhelm can make you feel less enthusiastic about your guitar
practice.
YOU STRUGGLE WITH USING SCALES IN A MUSICAL WAY. Often guitar
players don't make music when they solo. They just sound like they are
running up-and-down scales. They have no idea how to use scales in a
musical and interesting way.
YOU CAN\'T VISUALIZE SCALES EFFORTLESSLY OVER THE ENTIRE FRETBOARD.
This can be really frustrating! It feels like you're "locked" into one
part of the fretboard when you solo.
YOU PLAY SCALES WITHOUT TRULY HEARING THEM. Often guitar players
haven't totally internalized the sounds of the scales that they use.
This can lead to a very unmusical and mechanical style of soloing. It
can also lead to an inability to play-by-ear easily and confidently.
YOU SEE SCALES AS PATTERNS NOT NOTES. Many guitarists make the
mistake of only learning scales as patterns. Often they are not
totally aware of what notes are used in the scales. Knowing the notes
of a scale can really help you understand where to use the scale when
you are improvising.
YOU STRUGGLE WITH MOVING FLUIDLY BETWEEN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE
FRETBOARD. This lack of ability to play a scale seamlessly over the
entire fretboard can lead to a very rigid, disjointed and unmusical
soloing style.
YOU STUGGLE WITH APPLYING SCALES IN REAL-LIFE PLAYING SITUATIONS.
Guitarists often find it challenging to jam with other musicians using
the scales that they have just learnt in their practice room. Often
they can't adapt their scale knowledge to a new and unfamiliar
situation. There just seems to be a piece of the puzzle missing.
All of the above problems are frustrating as hell! And do you know
what...
Almost everyone struggles with these problems at some stage. You are
not alone. :-)
SOLVING THESE PROBLEMS PUTS YOU IN THE TOP 5% OF GUITAR PLAYERS...
Think about your guitar playing friends for a moment. HOW MANY OF
THEM TOTALLY DOMINATE SCALES? How many can solo musically, fluidly,
all over the fretboard...and make it look as if they aren't even
trying? My guess would be...
NOT MANY! :-)
Why is this? There are dozens and dozens of scale books out there.
There are also MANY websites that have information on scales. Why are
there so few guitar players who have actually mastered scales?
THIS QUESTION IS WORTHY OF SOME SERIOUS THOUGHT.
I believe the answer is this...
VERY FEW SCALE LEARNING METHODS FOCUS ON ALL FIVE OF THE ESSENTIAL
MASTERY SKILLS THAT LEAD TO COMPLETE SCALE MASTERY...
Most scale learning "methods" will give you a whole bunch of scale
fingerings. Then they show you some licks. Maybe they even give you a
few backing tracks. Then they leave you to it! THIS DOES NOT WORK FOR
MOST PEOPLE. It only works for the most talented guitar players out
there. Most of us need some extra help!
So what are the five essential mastery skills? Please check out the
diagram below...
Please take a couple of minutes to look at it. What do you think it
means? Let's take a closer look now...
EARS: Mastering this skill means that you have totally internalized
the sound of the scale. You know exactly what each note of the scale
sounds like.
EYES: This is your ability to visualize the scale over the ENTIRE
fretboard. With this ability you do not have to think in terms of
scale patterns. You can see all the notes of the scale everywhere
without having to think.
FINGERS: This is your technique. It is your ability to actually
physically play the scale ANYWHERE on your fretboard. You can play the
scale starting from any note, any position and any string.
INTELLECT: This is your theoretical understanding of the scale. At
the very least you should understand three main things.
* What notes are in the scale.
* What scale degrees are in the scale.
* Where the scale can be used.
APPLICATIONS: This is your ability to actually use the scale in a
musical way.
So what does all this mean?
If you are lacking in even one area…YOU DON\'T REALLY KNOW THE
SCALE FULLY. It has not yet been internalized. This means that
improvising using the scale in a musical way is challenging, (if not
impossible)!
AND THE SCARY THING IS...
Very few scale learning methods out there help you learn the five
essential mastery skills in an organised and structured way! They make
it way too hard and frustrating for you...
* They overwhelm you with ridiculous amounts of scale fingerings to
learn.
* They tell you to memorize the scale fingerings but don't actually
show you how.
* They tell you to learn things in all 12 keys. (This advice is
often B.S. and quickly leads to overwhelm for most people).
* They get you to move onto new scales well before you have mastered
the old ones.
* They tell you "WHAT TO LEARN", but don't actually tell you "HOW TO
LEARN" it.
You get the idea. They are throwing "learning hurdles" in your way
which slows down your progress. That really sucks!
WHICH IS WHY I CREATED THE GUITAR SCALE MASTERY MEMBERSHIP SITE...
IMPORTANT: It's not my intention to "hard-sell" you here. Frankly,
it's not my style. I know that Guitar Scale Mastery will really help a
lot of people. But I also know...IT WON\'T BE FOR EVERYONE. Not
everyone will want it or need it. :-)
Instead, I'll just give you some detail about what you'll get when
you join. That way you can decide whether or not it's for you. Fair
enough?
So here's exactly what you get when you join Guitar Scale Mastery...
MASSIVE MEMBER BENEFIT #1: THE GUITAR SCALE MASTERY SYSTEM
In this section of the website you'll learn the EXACT system that I
use to learn and internalize scales. Whenever I want to learn a new
scale I follow this system. Once you learn the system you'll be able
to apply it to ANY scale that you want to master.
A few of the overall benefits of learning The Guitar Scale Mastery
System include...
You will be able to learn scales on such a deep level that they
"become part of you".
You will be able to use scales WITHOUT THINKING.
You will be able to improvise with scales no matter where you are
on the fretboard.
You'll feel much more confident as an improvising guitarist.
You'll notice large improvements to your guitar technique, speed
and fluidity.
You'll solo in a more natural and musical way.
You'll feel more confident jamming with other musicians.
This system is comprised of five main parts. I call these parts
"scale weapons". Why weapons? Because it sounds cool! :-)
SCALE WEAPON 1: SINGLE STRING SCALES...
If someone held a gun to your head and said that you could only
choose ONE method of learning scales, then this should be it! This is
by far the most powerful way to learn scales. It's also a really
neglected method.
You'll learn a whole heap just from this section alone! :-)
YOU\'LL LEARN A VERY SPECIFIC 6 STEP MEMORIZATION PROCESS. This
allows you to deeply imprint into your brain both the note names and
scale degrees of ANY scale...over the entire fretboard. Imagine what
this one technique will do for your overall scale knowledge. You'll
understand scales better, which means you'll be able to solo in a much
more musical way.
YOU\'LL LEARN THE EXACT FOUNDATIONAL TECHNIQUE EXERCISES THAT I USE
MYSELF. These exercises help you to visualize the intervals within the
scale. This leads to you developing an even deeper understanding of
the scales that you learn. These exercises also improve your ability
to shift positions fluently. They also really help you to improve the
synchronization between your left and right hands.
Result? You'll improvise more fluently, and your speed and technique
improves.
YOU\'LL LEARN ABOUT 42 DIFFERENT COOL SOUNDING MELODIC PATTERNS.
Most really advanced improvisers will tell you that being able to
internalize melodic motifs is an invaluable skill. In fact...it's next
to impossible to improvise in a musical way without this skill. By
learning about these melodic patterns YOU become one of the few
guitarists that actually make music when they solo.
YOU\'LL LEARN TO CREATE YOUR OWN UNIQUE SINGLE STRING EXERCISES.
This is super important. Why? It helps you to develop your own style
of soloing!
YOU\'LL LEARN HOW TO COMBINE MELODIC PATTERNS. This allows you to
create more interest in your solos. It also allows you to make
dramatic improvements to your speed and overall technique. And
finally, it improves your ability to memorize licks and solos.
YOU\'LL LEARN THE 12 "SUPER EXERCISES" THAT I USE WHEN LEARNING
SCALES. These allow you to internalize the sound of 8 great sounding
melodic patterns. They also improve your finger independence, speed,
position shifting ability and the synchronization between your left
and right hands. All of these things help you to improvise in a more
fluent, confident and creative way.
SCALE WEAPON 2: TWO STRING SCALES...
This approach to learning scales is awesome. It combines some of the
benefits of single string scales with some of the benefits of the more
conventional scale patterns. Any scale learning method that doesn't
cover this approach is robbing you of some valuable learning and
progress!
Here's some of the things that you'll learn from this section...
YOU\'LL LEARN ABOUT VISUAL PATTERNS. These are very powerful visual
tools that enable you to solo in different keys much more easily. This
is a BIG part of the secret to soloing in all 12 keys.
YOU\'LL LEARN THE EXACT 6 STEP METHOD I USE TO MASTER VISUAL
PATTERNS. There's no point being aware of Visual Patterns if you can't
actually use them! In this section you'll drill the Visual Patterns
into your brain, allowing you to solo in a very free way.
YOU\'LL DISCOVER 20 POWERFUL TWO STRING EXERCISES. These help
improve your alternate picking, hammer-ons, pull-offs and overall
technique. They also really improve your ability to solo anywhere on
the fretboard.
SCALE WEAPON 3: THREE-NOTE-PER-STRING SCALES...
This is an approach used by many guitarists. It is one of the best
approaches for anyone interested in speed and fluidity. It allows you
to learn almost any scale over the entire fretboard. It's also an
approach that can be used for all styles of music. I've personally
used it for styles ranging from speed metal to traditional jazz. :-)
Here are a few of the things that you'll learn...
YOU WILL LEARN HOW TO CREATE YOUR OWN THREE-NOTE-PER-STRING
FINGERINGS. This will give you the confidence to construct fingerings
for almost any scale.
YOU WILL LEARN THE DETAILED 4 STEP METHOD FOR MEMORIZING ANY SCALE
FINGERING. Isn't it frightening how many scale learning methods give
you scale fingerings, but don't tell you the best way to memorize
them? This does NOT help you one bit. :-) In this lesson, I tell you
in great detail about how to easily and permanently imprint any
fingering into your brain.
Imagine how this will help you learn scales faster!
YOU WILL LEARN 8 FOUNDATIONAL EXERCISES USING THE 3-NOTE-PER-STRING
APPROACH. These are designed to quickly program scale fingerings into
your muscle memory. They also help you to improve your alternate
picking, pull-offs and hammer-ons.
YOU WILL LEARN 8 VERY POWERFUL TRIAD ARPEGGIO EXERCISES. Guitarists
often struggle to combine arpeggios and scales together in a musical
way. These 8 exercises help you visualize diatonic triad arpeggios
within scale fingerings. This really helps you learn to integrate
arpeggios into your playing...which will make your soloing sound more
interesting and melodic.
YOU WILL LEARN 8 SPECIFIC 7TH ARPEGGIO EXERCISES. Anyone wanting to
solo in a jazz or fusion style needs to learn these exercises. :-)
They help you program cool sounding arpeggios into your fingers. They
will also help your picking and fret hand technique tremendously!
YOU WILL LEARN MY 8 MOST FAVORITE INTERVALLIC EXERCISES. They sound
great and really help you improve your technique...especially your
string skipping!
YOU WILL LEARN HOW TO APPLY MELODIC PATTERNS TO DIFFERENT
FINGERINGS. This helps you to adapt the ideas you learn to any
fingering. What does this do? It helps improve your technique, scale
knowledge and your ability to improvise.
SCALE WEAPON 4: EAR TRAINING...
Many guitarists sound like they are just running up-and-down scales
when they improvise. Their solos can sound boring, rigid and
unmusical. They just don't make music when they solo.
So what's the solution? Easy...
EAR TRAINING!!!
It is the master key that unlocks musicality. Seriously. When you do
Ear Training EVERYTHING about your improvising improves. Why is that?
Music is sound. MUSIC IS A HEARING ART! Doesn't it make sense that as
your ability to hear improves, everything improves with it?
Over the years, I've studied many different approaches to Ear
Training. Some worked...some were frustrating and boring...
From this intensive study I've developed some of my own unique
methods that really work. What you get with this section of the
website are the "cliff notes". You learn only the most effective,
powerful and practical approaches to Ear Training scales.
Let's take a look at what you'll learn...
YOU\'LL LEARN THE 4 STEP PROCESS OF EFFECTIVE EAR TRAINING. Using
these 4 steps means you'll learn the sound of scales faster and more
easily.
YOU\'LL LEARN 4 FOUNDATION EXERCISES. These simple exercises quickly
imprint the sound of any scale into your brain.
YOU\'LL LEARN EXACTLY WHAT TO DO IF YOU CAN\'T SING A NOTE AT ALL.
Many Ear Training methods skip this vital step.
YOU\'LL LEARN 8 PIVOT EXERCISES. Don't know exactly what EVERY note
of a particular scale sounds like? These exercises solve that problem!
YOU\'LL LEARN TO SIGHT SING 32 DIFFERENT MELODIES...ALL WITHOUT
HAVING TO READ MUSIC! By the time you finish this step, the sound of a
scale will be tattooed in your brain for life. Just imagine how this
could help your soloing.
YOU\'LL LEARN TWO POWERFUL REINFORCEMENT EXERCISES. These help you
learn the sound of a scale on an even deeper level.
SCALE WEAPON 5: APPLICATIONS...
This is the fifth component of The Guitar Scale Mastery System. This
section ensures that you actually gain experience USING the scales
that you learn. This is vital! What's the point of learning scales if
you don't use them in a musical setting?
You'll look at three very powerful ways to internalize scales and
learn to use them in a musical way...
FOCUSED LICK CREATION
FOCUSED IMPROVISATION
GESTURING
If you are not using these, then your progress is definitely not as
fast as it could be.
IMPORTANT: I've deliberately not gone into too much detail here. I
don't want my competitors to learn these three practice strategies.
Yeah, I know they can just join...but I really don't want to make it
too easy for them! ;-)
MASSIVE MEMBER BENEFIT #2: GUITAR SCALE ACTIVATORS...
Guitar Scale Activators are special backing tracks. They are
designed to bring to life (activate) the sound of any scale that you
are practicing. This is very powerful. Some of the benefits of using
the Guitar Scale Activators include...
YOU\'LL EVENTUALLY PROGRAM CHORD/SCALE RELATIONSHIPS INTO YOUR
BRAIN. This means that when you hear a chord you'll be able to
automatically hear the scale that works over that chord. Obviously,
this is a useful skill for any improvising guitarist!
YOU\'LL ENJOY PRACTICING SCALES MORE. Scale exercises and licks
sound much more interesting when played over the correct Guitar Scale
Activator.
YOU\'LL LEARN TO INTERNALIZE THE SOUNDS OF SCALES MUCH FASTER. This
will help you to improvise more confidently in a much more musical
way.
YOU\'LL IMPRINT THE SOUND OF CHORDS INTO YOUR BRAIN. This is done on
a subconscious level. As you practice your brain will be absorbing the
sound of the chord used on the Guitar Scale Activator.
MASSIVE MEMBER BENEFIT #3: BONUS UPDATES...
The biggest advantage of a membership site over books, DVDs and home
study courses is flexibility. New content and lessons can be added
relatively easily. I really want Guitar Scale Mastery to be a website
that improves, grows and evolves over time. To be blunt…I intend
this site to totally kick the ass of any other scale related website.
:-)
As a member you'll gain access to all of the future Bonus Updates
that are created during your membership period. ALL AT NO EXTRA COST
TO YOU.
WARNING: PLEASE DO NOT READ THIS IF YOU ARE EASILY OFFENDED...
I know that I WILL offend some people and lose some sales by what
I'm about to say. AND I REALLY DON\'T CARE. I just feel it needs to be
said. So here it is...
DO NOT JOIN GUITAR SCALE MASTERY IF YOU ARE A LAZY BUM WHO DREAMS OF
BECOMING A GUITAR GOD WITH VIRTUALLY NO PRACTICE. Keep your money...I
don't want it. I'm totally serious about this.
If you have the work ethic of a crack-addicted sun-dried tomato,
please go to the other websites that promise you that you'll be
playing like Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Allan Holdsworth or Yngwie
Malmsteen in just 20 minutes a day. Or maybe you could just buy one of
those ab machines that promise you washboard abs in just 30 seconds a
day. Give me a freakin' break...
Gaining a mastery of scales takes some time and some effort. If you
aren't willing to invest some time and effort, then joining won't help
you. I'm sorry if that sounds really harsh, but I believe in being
brutally honest...
Guitar Scale Mastery is suitable for you if you have the following
qualities...
You have the intelligence to realize that mastering scales will
take time and effort.
You enjoy practicing the guitar.
You would like to improve your improvising greatly.
You are willing to keep an open mind and try new things.
You are an intermediate level guitarist who would love to become
an advanced/pro level guitarist.
If you have these five qualities then you are exactly the sort I
person that I want to help. You are the sort of person that Guitar
Scale Mastery was created for...
GRAB 3 YEARS ACCESS TO THIS VALUABLE INFORMATION NOW...
Because this product has recently launched, I want to give you a
really great deal. :-)
I AM OFFERING YOU A 3 YEAR PREMIUM MEMBERSHIP TO GUITAR SCALE
MASTERY FOR THE ONE-TIME SMALL INVESTMENT OF: $67 (US DOLLARS).
(IMPORTANT: If you live in one of the European Community (EC)
countries, then VAT will be added to this. Please read FAQ [1] for
details).
For this small amount you gain immediate access to:
* The Guitar Scale Mastery System.
* The Guitar Scale Activators.
* All the Bonus Updates that are created during the next three
years.
This small investment of $67 works out to only $1.87 per month. Try
getting lessons from a professional guitar tutor for that! In fact,
$67 wouldn't even cover the cost of a one hour guitar lesson with me.
As well as all the valuable information you'll gain and the money
you'll save, YOU\'LL ALSO SAVE YOURSELF A LOT OF TIME...
You'll save yourself wasting valuable time trying to learn scales
by trial-and-error. This is by far the slowest and most frustrating
way to learn them. It's also the way that most people try to learn
guitar scales.
You'll save yourself time by being able to tap into my knowledge
and experience. You'll have the opportunity to ask me questions.
You'll also be able to make suggestions for future lessons that I
create.
You'll save yourself countless hours searching the internet for
reliable, organised and trustworthy lessons on guitar scales. A lot of
these free lessons haven't even been written by professional guitar
tutors!
You'll save yourself many long hours having to ask questions at
guitar forums...only to find out the advice given was about as useful
as a one-legged sheep.
FAIR WARNING: As I add more and more Bonus Updates to the member
only area, I will eventually have to increase the price to $97. At
this stage, I'm not exactly sure when this price increase will happen.
But if you come back to this web page and find the low price is no
longer available, then you will be out of luck.
And no...this isn't some lame B.S. "marketing gimmick". (I'm sure
you've come across those before!). If you were involved in the launch
of this website, you know that I DO increase the price when I say I am
going to...
ACT NOW AND I\'LL ALSO THROW IN THE FOLLOWING E-BOOK AS A BONUS...
SPECIAL BONUS: PENTATONIC GUITAR SUCCESS
This 246 page e-book took me six months to write! It is designed for
the ambitious guitarist who is serious about developing awesome
pentatonic scale technique. In my opinion it is worth more than the
actual cost of membership to Guitar Scale Mastery.
Here's some of the things that you'll learn from it...
YOU\'LL LEARN SOME ESSENTIAL MUSIC THEORY. This will help you to
become a better musician. Plus you'll feel great knowing the stuff
that a lot of guitarists put in the "too hard" basket.
YOU\'LL LEARN 84 MELODIC IDEAS IN FIVE DIFFERENT FINGERINGS. This
will increase your soloing vocabulary dramatically. It will also help
you gain a total mastery of each of the five fingerings. Which means
you'll be able to solo with lots more confidence using pentatonics.
YOU\'LL LEARN 48 SINGLE STRING LINEAR EXERCISES. This will help you
learn to move between the different pentatonic fingerings
effortlessly.
YOU\'LL LEARN 216 TWO STRING LINEAR EXERCISES. These will turn you
into a pentatonic beast! Your fret hand and picking technique will
improve a lot. Plus they look really cool when you play them. :-)
PLUS A WHOLE LOT MORE!
THERE IS NO RISK TO YOU WITH MY 100% IRONCLAD, MONEY-BACK
GUARANTEE...
I want there to be absolutely no risk to you.
That's why I have decided to give you an eight week risk-free money
back guarantee...
"Test drive your Guitar Scale Mastery membership for up to eight
weeks. If you feel you haven't made massive improvements to your scale
knowledge, I'll cheerfully and promptly give all your money back...no
hassles, no arguments, no small print, no questions asked. To be
blunt, I'd be embarrased to keep your money if you're not 100%
satisfied".
Now...let's take this guarantee one step further. I want you to feel
absolutely certain there's no way you can "get taken". I'm a respected
guitar educator and my reputation is on the line...
_"If you are unhappy with your decision to buy FOR ANY REASON, just
let me know within eight weeks and I'll give you a full refund"._
YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE.
HERE\'S HOW YOU CAN JOIN RIGHT NOW...
THE GUITAR SCALE MASTERY 3 YEAR PREMIUM MEMBERSHIP AND THE SPECIAL
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All the best,
CRAIG BASSETT
P.S. If you are too slow and miss out on the special pricing of $67,
please don't email me asking for it. I won't make ANY exceptions. It
wouldn't be fair to the people who have already joined at the lower
price.
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