Learn how to choose which Major Scale pattern to play and the best way of switching between patterns.
View the full lesson at Moving Between Scale Patterns | JustinGuitar
hi do the patterns for every other major scale follow the same shapes?
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Yes. Using the CAGED system there are 5 pattern. Each pattern
is movable, the Root note determines the scales name.
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Should I be able to play pattern 1 with confidence without looking at my fretting before I attempt to learn pattern 2? I am able to play it well while watching my fretting hand but it all goes south when I try it without looking. Is this something that develops over time or should I be focusing on this now before moving on?
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Itās more important to be able to use the scale to play solos
Before learning pattern 2.
If you canāt use pattern 1 to make music learning pattern 2 wonāt
make you a better player.
The only why to stop looking at your hands is to practice not
looking at your hand. You play the way you practice.
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Hello @Jenrm125 and welcome to the community.
As @stitch says, do not think of leaving pattern 1 behind unless you have learned to use it meaningfully, musically. You want to get it working for you immediately as a tool to create and be musical. You need to avoid learning multiple scale patterns if they are only patterns that your fingers can walk yet you have no idea what they are for.
Watch this for insight to this advice: When NOT To Learn Scales... | JustinGuitar.com
Cheers 
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Thank you very much for your thoughts. Yes, I understand the importance of being able to use the scales musically. I am currently able to do so and enjoy it very much, but only while watching my fretting hand. Iāve decided to take a step back though and start practicing pattern 1 without looking. Iām able to do it but very slowly. Iām thinking I just need to break the bad habit Iāve formed of watching my fretting while I play.
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Is there also a minor scale maestro course ?
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Not as such.
There are sections about the minor scale (note, there are several minor scales) in the modes & scales sub-section and also in the theory lessons.
Cheers
Richard
Thanks for another fantastic lesson! Just wanted to note I believe there is a typo in the written description for the lesson, under ā1 - Restrict To Be Freeā, it sayās āBar farā where I think it should say āBy farā. Cheers!
[ mod edit - typo now fixed, thank you for reporting it ]
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Does anyone know the sequence of notes for the tune that Justin is playing in the G major scale on string 4?
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Iām pretty visual so I created this color-coded fretboard diagram using Neck Diagrams to help me understand this lesson.
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FYI, you missed one note in pattern 1. Low E string, 2nd fret, fretted with 1st finger.
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Thank you for taking a look at my Pattern 1 and 2 scale. Please see Justinās āHow to Play Pattern 1 of Major Scalesā video beginning at 5:05 where he shows the full pattern. The note you mentioned isnāt part of the pattern.
You may have been looking at the portion of the same video beginning at 10:32 where Justin shows the relationship of the G major barre chord to Major Scale Pattern 1, with the former including the note you mentioned.
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@rklein
Fast-Eddy is correct the note you are missing is the 7th of the scale. This is from Justinās lesson on the major scale at 7:50 he explains why that note is part of the pattern
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OK Fast-Eddie and Stitch, I eat crow on this one. I was thrown off by Justinās Major Scale Pattern 1 lesson in which (a) Justin said that all of the 5 patterns have 16 notes, (b) the majority of the lesson showed Pattern 1 without the F# on the 6th string, (c) it wasnāt until 7:40 of the lesson that Justin added the F# on the 6th string, which was the 17th note, and (d) Justin stated that the F# (17th note) is only played when you descend the pattern so that you go as low as you can to enable you to finish on the root note, i.e., G, on the 6th string. I re-posted the neck diagram which includes the missing note in Pattern 1. I canāt slip anything by you guys!
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Itās seems Iām the first to post a vid of my playing with this stuff.
First, sorry for the camera angle! Iāll try to reduce the full frontal nature in future.
My reflections, Iām pretty rubbish at this so far but can see signs of things to come. I donāt have any licks that are just my preferred things to go to, so all of it is just make it up as you go. I have no finger speed, bends still sound rubbish, pull offs and flick offs are ok in isolation but because I donāt really have a pattern of where Iām going next they sound meh.
On the plus side, I can see the patterns and the way to work between them quite nicely, not saying I donāt occasionally hit a dud but mostly pretty good. When I find a little pattern I like I am finding repeating it and then repeating it with one or two added notes sound nice.
The last bit I liked in this at 3.06 the music lead me and I heard I needed another note. This took me outside of the scale patterns but I instinctively found the D on the string 1 and it sounded good. This is suggesting to me that my ear is getting somewhere even if the fingers have yet to catch up.
This style of playing is odd for me as a punk rocker at heart but itās a bit of fun.
Any comments appreciated.
Cheers
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Nice job funkyfingers.
That little repeating pattern is your hook. Now fish the seas of cheese with it and get funky!
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So alternative picking is just for practising scales and real live improvisation is with all down picks?
No alternate picking is a very useful picking method for improvising and solos.
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