In episode 144 of the guitar music theory podcast I tell you which guitar scales you should learn Oh, Greetings guitar engineers.

Welcome to the guitar music theory podcast. I am your host Desi Cerna, author of fretboard theory, guitar theory for

dummies and more. Today I'm going to tell you which guitar scales you should learn. If you are new to guitar or you're still in those

stages where you're still trying to get things together and become a good player, you

know that learning guitar scales is something that's necessary. We use scales to play

riffs and melodies and solos and baselines. But you might be unsure which scale patterns

you need to learn. You can go to your local music store

and get a scalebook for guitar and it's got a variety of different types of

scales and patterns and you might think that you need to learn all of them if you want to be able to play songs that are on the radio and play in the style of various popular genres.

But I'm here to tell you that there's actually just two types of scale patterns that most of popular music is based on.

We're going to get into that in today's lesson. But before we do, let me direct all of my podcast listeners over to my website

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playing guitar solos, or you want to delve deeply into music theory,

I have a free video course for you.

I can put you on a plan to fill gaps in your knowledge and fill gaps in your playing,

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Enroll in your free video course now at guitar music theory.com you can click on the

link in the podcast show notes. Oh, you know. All right, we are ready to dive in.

Before we begin, I have made a video for this lesson,

and you can find it on my social media profiles.

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