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The Only 25 Scale Shapes You'll Ever Need... Probably: Guitar

This document introduces 25 scale shapes that provide fretboard freedom for guitar players. It notes that having more notes is pointless without good musicianship skills like timing, phrasing, and taste. It highlights how Stevie Ray Vaughan and BB King could improvise for hours using only small scale shapes. The shapes are intended as a reference for players, not a required study syllabus, and are meant to fuel creativity and take guesswork out of scales.

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The Only 25 Scale Shapes You'll Ever Need... Probably: Guitar

This document introduces 25 scale shapes that provide fretboard freedom for guitar players. It notes that having more notes is pointless without good musicianship skills like timing, phrasing, and taste. It highlights how Stevie Ray Vaughan and BB King could improvise for hours using only small scale shapes. The shapes are intended as a reference for players, not a required study syllabus, and are meant to fuel creativity and take guesswork out of scales.

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The only 25 Scale Shapes

you’ll ever need... Probably


Written by Luke Lewis

GUITARVIVO . c o m
Written by Luke Lewis
GUITARVIVO @the.fitarist

THE MOST IMPORTANT THING YOU’LL


EVER READ… PROBABLY
FRETBOARD FREEDOM is not going to cover any flaws in your playing. Your sense of
time, your melodic sense, your phrasing, and your taste will still be the most important
aspects of your musicianship and playing. Having more notes at your disposal is
pointless if you’re just going to play them with poor time, tone, vibrato, etc. Fix the big
things, fix what’s important… then add more notes and freedom when you need it.

The BB King box is the single most important example of one overlooked
truth; there are endless melodic possibilities within the tiniest of scale
shapes.
Stevie Ray Vaughan rarely left the first position of the pentatonic scale,
and he could improvise and craft solos for hours.
I’ve compiled these shapes to feed your creativity, and take the
guesswork out of scale shapes, it is in no way a study syllabus. It is not
intended as a barrier or pre-requisite to making music. It is a reference
for when you need it.
Luke Lewis

L
Luke
As well as the included shapes I have Lewisa video to demonstrate how to
created
practice shapes in a way that will help you make music, I recommend everyone
watches this … The video can be found at www.guitarvivo.com/demo it is entitled
“Scale shape mastery: Primer”

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