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Originally Posted by shredder567

a reliable guitarist told me that all u need to know fr playin lead is a good knowledge of major scales...so if i learn da major sclae in all da five positions n then be creative with those notes , will it b enuf ?? it sounds nice to me cuz i can change da key by movin up or down the frets.....am i right???

I just remembered where I saw that, youtube.

Originally Posted by shredder567

one more thing...there are millions of amazing guitarists in this world n surely all of em cant have absolute knowledge about all scales cuz from wat i can make out it needs a decent amount of intellect ( which i think i lack ) ..then how do these guys reach at a level where they can improvise n make one hell of a solo...surely there has to b a way out

Originally Posted by Fretsource

Scales that do find favour among many lead guitarists include:
Major, minor, the modes, the blues scale and the major and minor pentatonics.

If i said you had to do 500 push-ups that would seem like a lot. But if I told you you had 2 years to do them, meaning less than 1 a day, it wouldn't seem so bad. The way I first approached music theory (and guitar) was I'm going to learn everything, I'm gonna learn every chord and every scale and them I'm done. Unfortunately for me that is completely unrealistic, so I just have fun, learn new stuff and try new things out and enjoy it. Ofcourse I still have intentions of learning a ton of specific stuff, but there's no due date

Originally Posted by shredder567

i hope this is not misinterpreted as me tryin to take an easy way out

This guy talks about mastering the major scale, which you'll see isnt a very easy way out. (plus if you spend enough time to learn all 7 positions of the major scale you would have learned a lot of stuff, and a lot of other stuff too that you would enivatalbly along the way.)