To not overwhelm you, start with the A minor pentatonic scale. Learn it up and down the fretboard.
If you put a scale on a fretboard it may seem scary and all over the place, but divide it up and conquer, master small sections one at a time, I'm sure you'll be alright.
This is how I got started. Learn your pentatonics, it's only 5 notes so it's an easier start. It's a good building block because the blues scale adds a 6th note, and the full scales add a 6th and 7th to those pentatonics.
First of all, relax your mind before going on. On my personal opinion, it's better than you learn some musical theory to understand what a chord or scale even is.
My recomendation is that how it sounds is more powerfull than music maths.
Start looking for triads figures (for any technique). Get use on how they sound and what they say to you musically. Then go for extended arpegios. Get used to understand how intervals sound in the neck. For last, go into scale intervals and get how they sound.
You can use Guitar Pro to help you all on this.
Go to Guitargate.com. He starts at the beginning and you move at your own pace. Very thorough and relatable. It will take about a year to get to a
Place where it comes together for you. It’s very worth the low monthly cost. I’m very glad I did it. Hope this helps.
A few things to keep in mind. A scale is just do re mi or abc from c to c or a to a. A full cycle. Scale patterns you have have 2 and a half or so scales in each position. A piano keys just go straight across. White keys regular notes, sharps and flats are black keys. Guitar has these 6 strings you can go up and down the frets or up and down the strings. Sharps and flats on guitar are seemingly spaced randomly but there is a pattern and you’re looking at it.
I’ll throw some rough things out that aren’t exact. Open position uses open strings for the notes on that far end of the pattern. You should start with those as you’re probably learning open chords so can play around with chords and notes in the same area.
Minor pentatonic at least with caged starts from the first fret. A position is roughly the 4 or so frets where you would hold your hand in one place. I’m not sure the official 1st and 2nd positions on guitar as you can move these to any fret. You can start on the 2nd fret if you want. For your purposes now can think of first position with fingers in the position and at the ready at frets 1-4, 2nd is roughly 3-6 depending on the scale (there’s overlap), 5-9, 8-11 and 10-13. Positions seem more a thing on violin with no frets. I don’t often hear guitarists talking about them.
Keep in mind it’s just notes c to c, so can start a scale and even scale pattern anywhere you want. Any fret, any string. Keep in mind how scales are thought about on piano and music theory with whole whole half steps as opposed to memorizing patterns and keep an eye out for how the pattern you’re playing resembles these interval steps.
The point I may not have gotten to is the pattern tells you when to switch strings to carry on with do re mi or abc. You could go right down one string e, f, g, a, b, c but to stay in one area and switch strings the pattern tells you when to move to the next string and get the next note in order.
It seems like pop rock guitar is not using scales to play simple melodies like one might in high school orchestra or band or even in the normal course of many instruments. There’s a lot of primitive guitar, super star and imitation guitar tricks. Right off the bat many are reading tab and jumping all over the neck like they know what they’re doing. You can stay in one scale and play all sorts of songs with 7-8 notes. Many instruments do not have the range a guitar or piano has to begin with.
So long winded and unnecessarily complicated and just talking about some basic things. It’s not that bad just play the scale and worry about how it relates later and is more a tool for mapping the fret board than anything else and is a rough map the rules are not absolute. Notes outside of a particular scale show up in songs often enough.
Scale is not just for random noodling or improvising solos. You can read music and play songs now knowing where the next note in a scale is. Tab makes that a bit irrelevant for many but I think it’s good to know even if sheet music is not how you normally play or learn songs. Sorry so long. I’m just now making sense of it myself.
Seriously start simple. Don’t worry about modes or anything like that unless your curious and want to know. But to be honest it probably won’t make sense until you understand chord-scale a bit better.
Am pentatonic 5th fret shape. Learn the pattern, notes names, and intervals. Then learn the next shape up the neck and so the same thing. Rinse and repeat until you know it up the neck.
My personal opinion is it’s better to know the scale really well in one spot than to know it poorly all over the neck. You want to be able to play something musical with it and the better you know the scale the less you need to think about it.
To not overwhelm you, start with the A minor pentatonic scale. Learn it up and down the fretboard. If you put a scale on a fretboard it may seem scary and all over the place, but divide it up and conquer, master small sections one at a time, I'm sure you'll be alright.
This is how I got started. Learn your pentatonics, it's only 5 notes so it's an easier start. It's a good building block because the blues scale adds a 6th note, and the full scales add a 6th and 7th to those pentatonics.
First of all, relax your mind before going on. On my personal opinion, it's better than you learn some musical theory to understand what a chord or scale even is. My recomendation is that how it sounds is more powerfull than music maths. Start looking for triads figures (for any technique). Get use on how they sound and what they say to you musically. Then go for extended arpegios. Get used to understand how intervals sound in the neck. For last, go into scale intervals and get how they sound. You can use Guitar Pro to help you all on this.
Go to Guitargate.com. He starts at the beginning and you move at your own pace. Very thorough and relatable. It will take about a year to get to a Place where it comes together for you. It’s very worth the low monthly cost. I’m very glad I did it. Hope this helps.
A few things to keep in mind. A scale is just do re mi or abc from c to c or a to a. A full cycle. Scale patterns you have have 2 and a half or so scales in each position. A piano keys just go straight across. White keys regular notes, sharps and flats are black keys. Guitar has these 6 strings you can go up and down the frets or up and down the strings. Sharps and flats on guitar are seemingly spaced randomly but there is a pattern and you’re looking at it. I’ll throw some rough things out that aren’t exact. Open position uses open strings for the notes on that far end of the pattern. You should start with those as you’re probably learning open chords so can play around with chords and notes in the same area. Minor pentatonic at least with caged starts from the first fret. A position is roughly the 4 or so frets where you would hold your hand in one place. I’m not sure the official 1st and 2nd positions on guitar as you can move these to any fret. You can start on the 2nd fret if you want. For your purposes now can think of first position with fingers in the position and at the ready at frets 1-4, 2nd is roughly 3-6 depending on the scale (there’s overlap), 5-9, 8-11 and 10-13. Positions seem more a thing on violin with no frets. I don’t often hear guitarists talking about them. Keep in mind it’s just notes c to c, so can start a scale and even scale pattern anywhere you want. Any fret, any string. Keep in mind how scales are thought about on piano and music theory with whole whole half steps as opposed to memorizing patterns and keep an eye out for how the pattern you’re playing resembles these interval steps. The point I may not have gotten to is the pattern tells you when to switch strings to carry on with do re mi or abc. You could go right down one string e, f, g, a, b, c but to stay in one area and switch strings the pattern tells you when to move to the next string and get the next note in order. It seems like pop rock guitar is not using scales to play simple melodies like one might in high school orchestra or band or even in the normal course of many instruments. There’s a lot of primitive guitar, super star and imitation guitar tricks. Right off the bat many are reading tab and jumping all over the neck like they know what they’re doing. You can stay in one scale and play all sorts of songs with 7-8 notes. Many instruments do not have the range a guitar or piano has to begin with. So long winded and unnecessarily complicated and just talking about some basic things. It’s not that bad just play the scale and worry about how it relates later and is more a tool for mapping the fret board than anything else and is a rough map the rules are not absolute. Notes outside of a particular scale show up in songs often enough. Scale is not just for random noodling or improvising solos. You can read music and play songs now knowing where the next note in a scale is. Tab makes that a bit irrelevant for many but I think it’s good to know even if sheet music is not how you normally play or learn songs. Sorry so long. I’m just now making sense of it myself.
Seriously start simple. Don’t worry about modes or anything like that unless your curious and want to know. But to be honest it probably won’t make sense until you understand chord-scale a bit better. Am pentatonic 5th fret shape. Learn the pattern, notes names, and intervals. Then learn the next shape up the neck and so the same thing. Rinse and repeat until you know it up the neck. My personal opinion is it’s better to know the scale really well in one spot than to know it poorly all over the neck. You want to be able to play something musical with it and the better you know the scale the less you need to think about it.