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Scales are one of the foundations of music. Knowing them helps you compose, improvise, and understand guitar at a deeper level. When I teach guitar lessons, I use these scale diagrams to help students visualize the neck of the guitar. Now, I'm sharing them with you. If that sounds cool, right now is a good time to get started.
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About Me
My first exposure to the guitar was an archtop acoustic (a 1935 Harmony Gene Autry Old Santa Fe) that my dad still had from when he was a young man. He didn't play it much, but I liked picking out melodies on it. I took a few guitar lessons when I was in grade school. In my teenage years, some friends of mine wanted to put a band together, so I took up bass guitar in 1984. At first, I mostly approached the guitar as a songwriting tool. But, in 2014, I got serious about playing guitar, inspired by an archtop electric (a 2004 Ibanez Artcore AF75) that my wife bought me for Christmas. While I'm still a bassist at heart, I'm highly skilled on both.
(For the curious, I still have my dad's Harmony.)
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This page was last updated on 07/12/2026.