A Guitar “Cheat Sheet" Learning Tool To Quickly Learn And Locate Scales!!
BACKGROUND – THE FRUSTRATION AND THE INNOVATION
Guitar Scale Magnets is a finger positioning tool for learning and playing musical scales that is located on the
top of the guitar’s neck adjacent to the fretboard, which serves to show the
player where to place their index finger in relationship to the top string (the
fat "E" guitar string) in order to start that particular scale mode.
The first scale I learned was the E minor pentatonic scale out of a book. I understood that there were 5 standard “box” shapes that comprised the pentatonic scale modes. I soon realized that these 5 “box” shapes are universal and what actually changed the key of the pentatonic scale was the location on where to play these universal box shapes on the guitar's fretboard. As a guitar player, I found it frustrating that instructional books and videos that teach scales simply show moving the box shapes up and down the fretboard accordingly to play in different keys. The problem is that it usually takes a guitarist a long time to master one scale and to become comfortable where to play these scale shapes on the fretboard. If, however, the guitarist wishes to play the same scale but in a different key, then the locations of where to play these scale box shapes change--the player now has to recommit to memory the new locations on the fretboard, thus adding confusion and reducing play efficiency.
Hence the birth of Guitar Scale Magnets: A “Cheat Sheet” learning tool for the guitar that allows the player to QUICKLY locate where musical scale shapes begin on your guitar’s fretboard. Slap on the scale strip and start playing!
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Guitar Gear
Goofydawg gives Guitar Scale Magnets 5 tone bones in his review. more>
AllSound
Admin writes about fretboard knowledge in a flash more>
Music Gear Review
Laklander writes "while the "blues" scale may be second nature to many guitarists, there's a lot more to be learned if you want to venture into other genres of music." more>
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