Guitar Note Mastery

A Review of Guitar Note Mastery

Guitar Note Mastery is another of those courses that isn't absolutely necessary to learning the guitar but will improve your soloing and improvisation skills and your knowledge of the guitar notes on the fretboard.

It's written by the same person who did Guitar Scale Mastery. In the that course he recommends that you learn the notes on all the strings on all of the neck of the guitar. He also recommends you do this by using his course Guitar Note Mastery, but he would do wouldn't he.

Guitar Note Mastery is priced so low that I decided to give it a go and it's well worth it.

What I would recommend if you do use both courses is to dive right into learning the guitar scales and the notes at the same time. If you decide to learn just the notes before you start any scales, you might get bored
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Having said that, Guitar Note Mastery is very good and exceptional value. It isn't one of those courses that just shows you the names of the notes on each of the strings at each of the frets on the guitar neck and tells you to go away and memorise them. It does actually show you how to memorise them with useful exercises.

When I first started playing guitar, I only managed to learn the notes on the 1st high e-string, 5th, and 6th low e-string. The 5th and 6th strings because they're the root notes of the power chords and bar chords, the 1st string because it's the same as the 6th string.  I just never found any way of memorising the notes on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th strings.

So how important is it to learn the notes and scales on all strings and all the way up the guitar fretboard. Think who your favourite guitarists are. Do you think they know a few scales in different positions. Do you think they could name a few notes on the guitar including the sharps and flats.

Regardless of your playing style, or that of your favourite guitarists, your playing will improve if you can learn these notes and scales on your guitar.

Guitar Note Mastery
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Guitar Scale Mastery

A Review of Guitar Scale Mastery

Learning scales for guitar over the entire fretboard is a lot easier than you think. It will also improve your lead guitar soloing and speed. This is only true if you use a method that you find interesting and easy to use.

Most methods I've tried present the scales on the guitar as a patterns of blocks on the neck of the guitar. You memorise one block pattern and then move up the fretboard and learn the next one.

I've always struggled to move up and down to different places on the fretboard using this method. It teaches you to move across the strings and you get stuck to one or two places.

So what if you do manage to memorise all the block patterns for a scale. You've then got to do it for all the other scales and keys. I learnt the G blues scale from a book years ago. I learnt the first two or three blocks by memory but found it boring to continue.

I'd struggle to change it to a different key. I could just about manage two blocks.

What Guitar Scale Mastery does is to show you how to learn guitar scales one string at a time, and it's a lot faster and easier than you might think.

Once you've learnt where the notes of the scale are all the way up each string, those block patterns you tried to learn before just come naturally.

There's theory in this, and again it's set out in such an easy way that you will wonder why you struggled so much before.

There's also a lot of practical exercises that reinforce your scale training. There's single string, two string, and three string exercises that will have you playing guitar solos across and up and down the fretboard.

What you eventually get is a feeling for the notes in the scale and it just comes naturally to play them.
Learning to play the scale in a different key then becomes so much easier. And you can then use the same techniques to learn a different scale.

What surprised me the most is the first scale you learn, E major. Now that scale has four sharps in it, F sharp, G sharp, C sharp, and D sharp. I listed those straight out of my head. Before, I would have been counting along the frets on the strings and working out the notes.

When I first started learning music theory, the book I was learning from started with the C major scale which has no sharps or flats in it. The G major scales is next which has one sharp in it, F sharp. After that you get bored and give up
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You don't get bored and give up with Guitar Scale Mastery. It's fun and interesting to do. It doesn't matter how many sharps or flats are in a scale, it just becomes natural to play the right notes.

This isn't for lazy people, it's a long term training course that benefits you more the longer you do it. It's recommended that you give up some time to practice each day. If you're a keen guitar player, you're already doing this anyway. I've found that even if I don't pick up my guitar for a couple of weeks, I can still play those scales across and along the fretboard with ease. It's like riding a bike, you don't forget how to do it.

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