Guitar scale exercises
Scale exercises for guitar.
Exercises for different scales in tabs and sheet music in pdf format.
Use the metronome to make the exercise more accurately and precisely and to keep record on your speed through the exercises.
See also Harmonized scales
Studies (etudes)
To utilize intervals for more musical approaches, these studies, or etudes (meaning instrumental musical composition for exercise purposes mainly), show some ideas how this can be done.
Study 1 The first study is based on C Major scale and incorporate 3rd intervals with internal pedal points.
Study 1 (tab & standard notation)
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Study 2 This study is based on C Major scale and incorporate 3rds with separated pedal points.
Study 2 (tab & standard notation)
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Study 3 This study is based on E Minor scale with an arpeggio theme.
Study 3 (tab & standard notation)
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Study 4 This study is based on E Minor scale with an interval theme.
Study 4 (tab & standard notation)
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Study 5 This study is based on E Major scale and incorporate 3rd intervals.
Study 5 (tab & standard notation)
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Study 6 This study is based on E Major scale and incorporate 3rd intervals.
Study 6 (tab & standard notation)
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Soloing
Easy one- and two-strings soloing approaches in different keys.
Hard rock solo Am
Tabs för lead guitar can be downloaded as pdf. The sound below is with and without lead guitar.
Hard rock solo 1 - Am (tab)
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Hard rock solo Bm
Tabs för lead guitar can be downloaded as pdf. The sound below is with and without lead guitar.
Hard rock solo 2 - Bm (tab)
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Hard rock solo Em
Tabs för lead guitar can be downloaded as pdf. The sound below is with and without lead guitar.
Hard rock solo 3 - Em (tab)
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Notes
These are free exercises with ideas of practice methods to learn scales on the guitar. You can print out these exercises or store them on your computer, tablet etc. for personal usage.