In this lecture, I'm going to show you two different methods to go about practicing the scales and information in this course, the first method is going to be called the all in one method. And the second method is going to be called the all five at a time method. Now let's go ahead and take a look and see what those methods are. For the all in one method, what that means is what you're going to do is you're going to take one specific position, say, a minor position, one could be anywhere, it could be F minor, G minor, doesn't matter. I'm just using a minor because it's nice, does that mean sharps or flats and you're going to learn the scale in that position. And don't just learn it in one octave like I did, make sure you learn it, you know the full position, you're going to learn the minor scale.

And then you're going to take some time you're going to learn the minor pentatonic and then you're going to then go Go ahead and learn the chord tones and minor position one. So when you're doing this, you want to make sure that you're really aware of what the numbers of the intervals are. So when you're practicing your minor scale, you want to get one, two flat 345, flat six, flat seven, one, what those numbers mean, is a one, it's the first note of the scale, the two is a major second interval. So from here to here, that's a major second interval. So there's one, two, flat three. So from one, two, flat three, that's a minor third interval, from one to four is a perfect fourth.

One to five is a perfect fifth, one, two, flat six, that's a minor sixth interval, one, two flat seven, a minor seventh interval, and we have from one to one, which is an octave. So you might say, Well, why do I need to know these numbers? It's really important to know where all your intervals are, because then to change to different things if you want to go from the the minor scale to the pentatonic or switch to Cortez. You really need to understand what are the numbers are the intervals that you need to put in that scale to play the correct scale. So for a minor scale, you have to have all seven, you have to have one, two flat 345, flat six, flat seven, one. For the minor pentatonic, what you're going to do is we're not going to have them the two, it's going to be one flat 345, skip flat six, flat seven, one.

So by playing those right together, I think it helps you understand better which numbers or intervals you need to leave out. And then for the chord tones, it's all the odd numbers, just one flat three, five, flat seven, one, so I can play the scale. I can play the pentatonic and then I can play the the quartets because I'm playing them all right together, I can really see you know, the different notes or the different intervals in each. Whether it's the scale the pentatonic or the chord tones, I think that has allows my students have a better understanding of what's happening right there. And it also helps you instantly know what your different options are right in that position, or in that octave that you're in. And you don't want to just practice this in one position, you want to go through and use this technique for all five positions.

Now let's take a look at the second method. The second method is what I call the all five at a time method. This is the method that for you know, probably 1516 years that this how I would teach people to learn scales, you would learn position number one, say a minor position one. I'm only doing one off if I'm not doing the full scale, and then you would you practice that a lot. Then once you have that down, then we go and do position number two, position number three, position number four, at position number five down here. See what I say go ahead and practice position one and over and over and over.

Until you have the the finger pattern memorized, then you would do 234 and five. And then once you did all that for all the minor scales, then you would go ahead and do that for the pentatonic scales, and then do the chord tones. The reason I've been using the all in one method is I think it, I think it helps you learn each position better. Because you're kind of learning the three different things you need to know right in position. I think it helps you learn the intervals better. But it really it's up to you, you know, you may want to say, Well, I just want to play a minor scale all over the neck, like how do I do that?

So then, then the other method, the all five of the time methods might be a better choice. I suggest doing both, maybe one day, practice just only one position. And then another day, practice a minor the scale all over the map. Really mix it up and try to keep it interesting.