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It is vitally important to learn guitar scales as it creates a framework for your entire guitar playing, whether it be lead guitar, rhythm guitar or both. Scales are essentially the fundamental building blocks in which music is created. By learning even just a few scales and being able to apply them in a musical context, your skills will grow and you will ultimately become a better guitar player and musician.

Certain scales will help create a sense of mood with your music. In fact, choosing the right scale will help you define a certain sound or genre as well as the mood. Guitar scales are the essential foundations to lead guitar playing or soloing.

When listening to music have you wondered why some songs feel sad and others make you feel bright and happy? Scales ultimately affect the mood in music. The major scale, as an example, will convey a happy feel. In contrast, a minor scale can bring a sad feel to a song. The next time a song makes you feel a certain way, understand that this was most likely intentional, and as a result of the scale chosen.

To know and learn guitar scales is especially important in lead guitar. For example if you're interested in improvising a guitar solo, you must know which notes are contained in the musical backing piece and the key that the piece is in. By knowing the scale that fits the piece of music, this allows you not to think so much about what notes work, but more importantly, how to express yourself by using the notes that you know fit perfectly. By having a framework in your head of what notes are available to you when improvising a guitar solo - you can create a better solo in much less time and never hit a wrong note. By knowing the appropriate scales, this will make your playing effortless and unlock your creativity.

To learn guitar scales will allow you to fully explore and understand different genres of music that you may be interested in. For example you may love to play the blues. In this case your playing depends upon whether you can apply the most common scales for this genre of music - ie, the minor pentatonic, major pentatonic and blues scales.

Very specialised sounds can only come from using particular scales. As an example, to create a Spanish or flamenco sound, we might use the gypsy scale or phrygian mode. So if you are very focused on, or interested in a certain type of music, you can start by learning only those scales common to that genre. It is not always necessary to learn many different types of scales.

It is important not to think of learning guitar scales as a boring, repetitive and difficult exercise. By learning guitar scales in an actual musical context, the learning process can be fun, exiting and something to actually look forward to. I have been able to learn guitar scales simply by improvising over backing tracks.