{"id":583,"date":"2025-04-22T17:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T17:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/?p=583"},"modified":"2025-04-22T17:42:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T17:42:03","slug":"why-you-should-play-scales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/04\/22\/why-you-should-play-scales\/","title":{"rendered":"Why You Should Play Scales"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; width: 350px; padding-right: 10px; font-size: 11px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" title=\"Guy practicing Scales\" src=\"https:\/\/guitarband.ca\/images\/boy-on-guitar-600-rightie.jpg\" alt=\"null\" width=\"100%\" height=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>A lot of new musicians think playing scales over and over again is boring and may seem pointless. But here are 8 good reasons to work on scales every day. First, here&#8217;s the obvious stuff:<\/p>\n<p>1. Playing Scales helps improve <b>finger dexterity, strength and speed of your fingering hand<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>2. Playing Scales helps improve the <b>accuracy, speed and efficiency of your picking hand<\/b>.<br \/>\nAnd, here are some less obvious, equally important reasons&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>3. Playing Scales helps ingrain <b>important note positions<\/b>. For example, the location of root notes. Especially if you practice them further up the neck.<\/p>\n<p>4. Playing Scales helps <b>learn the fretboard<\/b>. First, at the open position, but then as you progress, further up the neck.<\/p>\n<p>5. Playing Scales helps <b>memorize note sequences<\/b> often used in melodies and accompaniments (think major scales, minor scales, pentatonic scales, etc.)<\/p>\n<p>6. Playing Scales in different keys (rather than sticking to the easy keys all the time) gives you a <b>deeper understanding of the fretboard<\/b>, and increases your versatility as a player.<\/p>\n<p>7. Playing Scales helps <b>train your ear<\/b> to recognize correct (or incorrect) note sequences.<\/p>\n<p>8. Playing a variety of scales improves your understanding of <b>practical music theory<\/b> as it applies to your playing.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure there are more reasons to practice scales. When practicing scales think about what you are learning, and how much it helps you improve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of new musicians think playing scales over and over again is boring and may seem pointless. But here are 8 good reasons to work on scales every day. First, here&#8217;s the obvious stuff: 1. Playing Scales helps improve finger dexterity, strength and speed of your fingering hand. 2. Playing Scales helps improve the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":587,"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions\/587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}