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Project #8 (Part One): Scales on guitar

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Lance Barker
Exploring my own creative expression and building things that help people.

Again, weird that I haven’t learned this by now. So, here we go. First I want to learn the Pentatonic Scales all over the neck.

7/14/18

Another long term project! Rather than pentatonic, I’m thinking of learning the major scale first, reasoning that all other scales can be derived from it. So many different approaches CAGED, 3 notes per string, etc.

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