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webprofusion ◴[] No.43542600[source]
Cool! I guess there needs to be a way for people to share new lessons to practise, it gets complicated with copyright pretty fast.

For real "lessons" you'd probably need to start at chord progressions, go into scales and how the chords relate back to those, then move to these types of soloing technique lessons.

AlphaTab is the star here https://github.com/CoderLine/alphaTab - it's been maintained tirelessly for years by Daniel Kuschny.

I've started to build this type of lessons sitea few times in the past and never really got it together enough to release anything. I've done scale/chord/arpeggio tools: https://github.com/webprofusion/scalex

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zozbot234 ◴[] No.43542653[source]
What do you need "scales" practice for on guitar? It's a totally relative instrument except when playing on empty strings, so there's only one "scale" pattern that you have to learn. It's nothing like a keyboard!
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compiler-guy ◴[] No.43542679[source]
There are dozens of scales to learn, with roots all over the fretboard. Each useful for different things. Just the basic minor pentatonic requires five different patterns. Eight note scales require eight different patterns, with various roots depending on the mode you want to play.

The Guitar Grimoirr scale book is 200 pages!

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zozbot234 ◴[] No.43542713[source]
By "pattern" you mean starting the scale on a different note/step? (or, equivalently, rolling the interval arrangement and ending up with one that's seemingly "different"?) That seems like a trivial change - if you can play C-D-E-F etc. you can play D-E-F etc. Why does it have to be "learned" separately?
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1. MattPalmer1086 ◴[] No.43543488{4}[source]
No, a pattern does not refer to changing the key of the scale.

A pattern is a way of playing a scale across the strings without having to move your hand. To play the same scale in the same key at a different position on the neck, the pattern of notes is different.

You have to learn 5 different patterns to be able to play a single pentatonic scale anywhere on the neck.

Obviously they all start at a different position if you want to use a different key - that is easy. Still 5 patterns to learn though just for that one scale.