What to do with scales to help learning them?

[Richard_close2u]

@sclay

The goal is to really get to know the scale musically

This.

One scale and one pattern only at a time.
And incrementally increasing speed is not the driving factor.
Music is.

First Steps in Blues Improvisation using Minor Pentatonic Scale Pattern 1

Here I offer some tips and some advice for all of the folks just beginning with the minor pentatonic scale and starting to explore a little blues-infused improvisation. Firstly - just take it easy, one simple thing at a time. If you want to get in to improvising focus only on one scale, the one scale that is the easiest to do this with, the minor pentatonic scale. Not the major scale. Not the major pentatonic scale. Just the minor pentatonic for blues lead. And start with only one pattern. Pa…