3 Notes Per String Thing Pt.1 (C-Major)

Let's be honest, we all want to be rock stars. So you pick up a guitar and assume that in no time you'll be able to rip a tasty lick and rock with the best of them. After all, you spent all those years perfecting your air guitar skills, that couldn't all have been for nothing, right?

But, the closest most of us will ever get to those aspirations of rock god grandiosity is stumbling through the first few arpeggios of Stairway to Heaven then smashing our guitar into the nearest set of speakers.

Don't give up yet, young prince of rock, Manny has come to your rescue. In this lesson, he details specific guidelines for learning scales that makes the whole process seem like child's play.

This is part one of three where he explains his technique for playing the C-major scale (the most common of scales) and then transposing it to accommodate for different keys. His technique is both minimalistic and refined, making for a unique guitar lesson that actually delivers what it promises: the hope that you too can one day shred in glory alongside the other gods of rock.

Manny is so good!

10/03/2008

~ brittanie

His skill set is amazing! I would love to take guitar lessons with this guy. Three notes per string scales and patterns was great to learn in the c-major and a-minor scales. Manny totally helped me with the correct fingerings on the 8th fret. Tuning to standard 440 and using the same fingerings as Manny were really helpful tips to get me started.

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