Guitar skills: let's get one thing straight – you don't need to know a lot of scales to be a good guitarist. In fact, if you've been playing for under a year you could quite safely get away with only ...

If you only ever learn one scale, then it has to be the major scale. If you know how this one works then you open the door to understanding how chords are built, what chord names mean, how scales and ...

With the intermediate status, one has learned some basic chords and strum patterns so those initial thrills are gone, and now the interest lies with further technical proficiency, melodic fluency, and ...

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