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Listen and pay attention to what you hear.
Use the melody as a guide.
I doubt the great players mentioned as emphasizing scales actually think about it that way when playing. Scales are a tool to help you understand what your fingers need to do to create a sound.
Especially guys like Hendrix and Gilmour. Satch is such an awesome player with huge ears (I don't mean physically), he might actually be thinking about and analyzing which scales etc. to use when working out stuff to play, but I doubt that's where he's at when performing or recording. He is definately at the "forget all that and just play" level. My opinion.
I read GP an interview in the 80's with Clapton where he was asked "what scales do you use?". His answer was something like "I don't know any scales, I just play music", or something very close to that. It left the interviewer a bit baffled I think.
Music is primarily about sound, what you hear, not about what you are thinking or what your fingers are doing.
Peace,
Rico
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