How important is it to learn scales when learning to play guitar?
Or is it alright just to learn chords and a few lead runs?
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October 18th, 2010 at 3:09 am
Scales are only particularly important if you want a greater understanding of why things are where they are on a fretboard. If you’re just planning to play chords in a band or something there’s not really much reason, but I’d recommend learning them 🙂
October 18th, 2010 at 4:07 am
it depends on what you want to play but there’s a lot that you can do with just the chords