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Originally Posted by steve/f
Hi everyone, how does learning scales help you when you are playing a song.
cheers.
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So, please notice how all of these excellent responses tell us that the value of scales is in
very many ways beneficial for practicing and learning technicalities and strengthening. Not only practice in a physical sense, but in a ear/mind sense (musically, as fretsource and scotty b are saying).
This is a part of a much wider debate, as you can see. But the one thing to be aware of that scales
most likely won't do for you is show you how melodies come from chord formations
This, of course, is debatable since some people learn how to read music and how to read and play scales first. If you are like many who are learning to play through knowledge of chords and rhythms, get
Plane Talk!!
Steve