Oh, time to get those scales and modes under your fingers. Okay, let's go!
First, I do think it is absolutely essential to learn your scales and modes. However, knowing a scale or mode is not the same thing as playing and practicing scales and modes.
I spent years playing all kinds of scales and modes up and down the fretboard because, well, that's what everybody said you had to do -- especially my Berklee teacher and lots of guys who sound like they're playing scales and modes up and down the neck all day long.
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Learn your modes and scales but DO NOT waste a lot of time playing them up and down the neck.
Scale practice is for petit bourgeois pigs.
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First, I do think it is absolutely essential to learn your scales and modes. However, knowing a scale or mode is not the same thing as playing and practicing scales and modes.
I spent years playing all kinds of scales and modes up and down the fretboard because, well, that's what everybody said you had to do -- especially my Berklee teacher and lots of guys who sound like they're playing scales and modes up and down the neck all day long.
Get my free postmodern shred technique book and go to infinity and beyond!
What a colossal waste of time. Better to just play this crap instead; it would sound more interesting.
Learn your modes and scales but DO NOT waste a lot of time playing them up and down the neck.
Scale practice is for petit bourgeois pigs.
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