Too Many Fingerings

Guitar Players have too many fingering choices available to them. Players of other instruments such as saxophone only have one fingering for each scale and as a result they become very proficient at playing those fingering shapes.

On the guitar you also have the problem of stretching to play a chord or scale pattern. Most guitar players are comfortable with a 4 fret stretch up to 5 or 6 fret at the most.

Almost everything can be played within a 4 or 5 frets so that stretch is more than sufficient the one scale that is the common denominator between all of music is the pentatonic scale,

Believe it or not the pentatonic scale can be applied different ways that actual creates the sound of many different scales including the major, minor melodic minor scales.

The pentatonic scale can be used to improvise over any and every chord progression you will ever come across. The pentatonic scale also contains the framework for the Diatonic scale and all of its modes. Ionian, Dorian, Phrygiann, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, Locrian and more.

This is great news considering that the pentatonic scale shapes are usually the 1st scales every guitarist learns and one that you probably already know and it also has the simplest fingering with only a 4 fret stretch.

So from Zeppelin to Miles Davis tunes, this one scale shape can do it ALL. To learn more about the pentatonic shape and how to use it to play other scales such as the blues, diatonic 7 note scale and more…check out Guitar In 60 Seconds.