Guitar scale exercises

Scale exercises for guitar.
Exercises for different scales in tabs and sheet music in pdf format.

Major

Exercises with movable scale patterns including three notes per string for all natural Major keys.

Exercises involving 3rd intervals based on the Major Scale for all keys.

Exercises involving 3rd intervals based on the D Major Scale.

Minor

Exercises with movable scale patterns including three notes per string for all natural Minor keys.

Pentatonic

Exercises with the five scale positions for B Minor Pentatonic.

Chromatic

Exercises with Chromatic scales in all keys. These can also be played as a simple way to build finger strength.

Modes

Studies (etudes)

To utilize intervals for more musical approaches, these studies, or etudes (meaning instrumental musical composition for exercise purposes mainly), show some ideas how this can be done.

Study 1 The first study is based on C Major scale and incorporate 3rd intervals with internal pedal points.

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Study 2 This study is based on C Major scale and incorporate 3rds with separated pedal points.

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Study 3 This study is based on E Minor scale with an arpeggio theme.

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Study 4 This study is based on E Minor scale with an interrval theme.

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Study 5 This study is based on E Major scale and incorporate 3rd intervals.

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Study 6 This study is based on E Major scale and incorporate 3rd intervals.

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Soloing

Easy one- and two-strings soloing approches in different keys.

Hard rock solo Am

Tabs för lead guitar can be downloaded as pdf. The sound below is with and without lead guitar.


Listen (with and without solo guitar):

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Hard rock solo Bm

Tabs för lead guitar can be downloaded as pdf. The sound below is with and without lead guitar.


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Hard rock solo Em

Tabs för lead guitar can be downloaded as pdf. The sound below is with and without lead guitar.


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Notes

These are free exercises with ideas of practice methods to learn scales on the guitar. You can print out these exercises or store them on your computer, tablet etc. for personal usage.