Minor Scale Guitar Lesson for Beginners [How to Solo]

This guitar lesson for beginners video will show how to solo with the minor scale.
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How to Solo with the Minor Scale [Guitar Lessons for Beginners]
With this guitar lessons for beginners video, we'll take the first step in learning how to solo and improvise with the Minor scale by showing how to play the Natural Minor Scale box pattern. Along with box pattern diagrams, guitar tabs, and Minor scale exercises for guitar, we'll cover it all with a step by step approach!

Minor Scale Guitar Lesson for Beginners [How to Solo]
00:00 Lesson Preview
00:20 The Natural Minor Scale
00:51 Use A Pick
01:27 How to Play the Minor Scale Box Pattern
08:34 Tips for Playing the Minor Scale
10:18 Minor Scale Box Pattern Diagram
12:19 Minor Scale Exercise #1
13:27 Associating Moods with Scales
14:03 Getting Fingers in Shape
14:41 Minor Scale Exercise #2
15:17 Lesson Preview

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Natural Minor Scale Guitar Tutorial
The Minor (aka 'Natural Minor) scale can generally be described as having a sad or serious mood or tone. The Natural Minor Scale can be played in various styles of music ranging from flamenco, to jazz, to rock.

Aeolian Scale Guitar Lesson
A more academic term for the Minor scale is the Aeolian (pronounced e-olian) scale, but most musicians simply refer to it as ‘The Minor scale’. This guitar lesson will show how to play the Aeolian/Natural Minor scale as a box pattern.

How to Play Minor Scale Box Pattern on Guitar
This Minor Scale guitar lesson for beginners video will show on how to play the Minor scale box pattern. Learning to play the Minor Scale box pattern will be the first step for beginners to learn to play Spanish flamenco riffs on guitar.

Spanish Flamenco Guitar Lessons for Beginners
(Use a Pick) This Spanish flamenco first guitar lesson for beginners will show how to play the Natural Minor scale box pattern. The finger numbers to fret each note of the Minor scale box pattern on guitar are shown below the Tab. The focus of this Minor scale guitar tutorial is how to play the natural minor scale box pattern correct with clarity rather than playing with speed. To get a proper sense of phrasing the Minor scale box pattern on guitar, let the last note played (first string/fifth fret) ring or sustain.

Box Pattern Guitar Lesson
A box pattern on guitar is essentially an ‘aerial view’ of the Minor scale going across the six strings, with the sixth ‘bottom’ string being on the far left and the first ‘top’ string being on the far right. The finger numbers to fret the minor scale box pattern are shown in circles. All of notes played from the Minor scale tab will ‘fit’ within this Minor scale box pattern when beginners learn to play Spanish flamenco riffs on guitar.

Spanish Flamenco Guitar Lessons for Beginners
Regardless of what scale or style of music is being played, guitarists will usually visualize various box patterns when playing flamenco riffs, jazz, rock, etc., along the fretboard. When learning to play Spanish flamenco riffs on guitar, there are several Minor scale box patterns used with flamenco soloing, however the Minor scale box pattern featured in this guitar lesson will be referred to as the standard box minor scale box pattern.

Associating Moods with Scales
One advantage with this Spanish guitar flamenco lesson for beginners lesson will be in learning how to play the Minor scale box pattern, and to learn to hear the intended sad, serious, Spanish/flamenco mood of the minor scale on guitar.

Minor Scale Mood = Sad, Serious, Spanish/Flamenco
Associating moods with scales develops the ability to learn songs and melodies ‘by ear’. In time, by simply recognizing the mood of a guitar solo as being either sad, serious, or Spanish, a guitarist can associate that mood with the Minor scale and immediately begin to ‘jam-along’ and improvise minor scale guitar riffs with the track without having to rely on any sort of written notation.

Minor Scale Exercises for Guitar
For beginner guitarists, the primary objective early on is to develop finger strength and flexibility. Not only will learning to play the Minor scale box pattern be a great exercise for the fingers, the same Minor scale box pattern will actually be used to play flamenco riffs, jazz, and rock guitar solos. Make sure all fingers are as close to the frets as possible when playing the Minor Scale box pattern, especially when fretting with the third and fourth (‘pinky’) fingers.

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Minor Scale Guitar Lesson for Beginners [How to Solo]