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Old February 4th, 2007
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Help on scales

Well, Im planning to stop useing tabs and such and Im wanting to just learn a bunch of chords and sclales and do it the healthy way, and only use tabs when I really, really want to learn a song the right way(tell me if I'm doing things wrong... I want to train my ear more)

Anyway...

Ok, I have a book called "the advanced guitar case scale book"(and trust me, im not advance on music thero) but anyway, it has all the basic scales( plus some cool exotic ones), your pentatonic, diminished, etc. all tabbed out but does a terrible job of exsplaining things.

It talks about moveable scales,(moveable major scales to be specific) how you can move them up the thret. First of all, is there such thing as a movable minor sclale? for there is like no minor scales shown in this book.

But my main question is, can you move any scale up the threat if you follow the same pattern? if you can, someone give me some examples. Also, everyong talks about the pentatonic scales being important to learn, but there only like 5 notes on the first couple of threats. Can you move these up? can someone show me a secend position pentatonic scale?

This might be asking a lot, but Im really lost here and have tryed to find a helpful site but failed. Any help would be great.

Thanks.

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