Thanks Claudia for reaching out and have a great guitar practice.

Best,
Klaus Crow

Hi Allen,
Thanks for your comment.
The one-octave major scales are indeed easier to get your head around, especially when you’re just diving into scales,
but even for intermediate guitar players who have always played two-octave scales it’s good to practice these as well,
and become aware of how the scale is structured. These lessons will fit new pieces to the puzzle and roadmap of major scales becomes clearer.

Best,
Klaus Crow

Thanks for being the first to show people to think in one-octave sections of the fretboard rather than those overwhelming “5 pattern” major, minor, pentatonic, etc. patterns that cover all six strings and leave every scale incomplete at one end or the other.

Not only are they bewildering, but to mindlessly practice those multi-scale boxes is just plain BORING! Better to learn 1-octave areas of the fretboard (and a little music theory, like keys, as well as the names of every fret on the fretboard, e.g., A#/Bb, etc.) so you can see how unnecessary those cumbersome dot-filled diagrams are.

Better yet, just start learning some songs just at the edge of your technical ability so you can see, feel, and hear how all those boxes were used to create a musical STORY. If you don’t have anything to say musically, then don’t bother with scales at all.

Another thing, if you really have faith in those 6-string across-the fretboard scale patterns, then learn to play ALL 12 KEYS in the same pattern instead of working your way up and down the neck to play in various keys, whether it’s chromatically, or relative major and minor pairs, or the circle of fifths, the circle of fourths, etc.

In other words, if you’re going to go the 6-string scale route, then learn the hell out of your instrument so you can see how those abstract concepts were actually used by the greats in whatever style(s) you’re into to TELL A STORY.

Best,
Klaus