How to practice scales + FREE Exercise Guide PDF
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- čas přidán 8. 07. 2024
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Have you ever felt like the hours you're spending practicing scales are not impacting your musical performance as much as you would expect? Have you also spent countless hours in your lifetime pursuing faster and faster speed on scales but left feeling that you just improved a bit your speed and coordination? I've been there, trust me.
Therefore, today I want to show you a way to bridge the technique together with the music during your scale-routine. The exercises I'll be showing you, will not only still demand you to work on speed and coordination but also refine your rhythmical understanding, precision, your capability to control all gradations of articulation, dynamics and color. All elements that are essential in any good performer.
To make your practice easier, I've put together a PDF that you can download for free here below. I really hope this Scale Guide will make your practicing more enjoyable and fruitful!
I wish you great practice time and see you around!
Merce
#guitartutorial #scales
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Thanks 🙏🏻 a million, Merce. This video is just so valuable and eye opener to me. I practice scales just to acquire speed and fluency, and still am struggling in clarity, specially while changing positions, and even to put any appeal in it, other than gain some finger speed. I am sure I will be watching this video several times more and note every detail.
I am also practicing daily the finger indepence exercise you showed couple of weeks back . I am improving, but still struggling a bit with the ring finger. I am persevering to improve on it, but it is also helping in my overall practice and playing.
Once again, thank you 🙏🏻 so much from the bottom of my heart. God Bless you always.
Thanks a lot Pavan! I'll try to make in the near future an upgrade for the finger independence so that once you manage to control it you can practice a bit more complex variations. It helps a lot to keep the fingers developing.
Comments like yours motivate me a lot to keep investing hours to produce these videos, so thank you also for your feedback! It is well heard and much appreciated :)
"... build up a convincing and precise sense of rhythm..." 5:40 A proverb for practice.
I wish I had this advice when I was a teenager and obsessively played scales, very helpful.
Best classical guitar teacher on CZcams! Officially confirmed 😄
My jaw just dropped because I have never seen such great content with beautiful image quality. Very kind regards from Izmir, Türkiye
Man. I wish I had your videos back when I was studying classical guitar. I might not have burned out so bad.
Well, hope they help a bit now 😊
Slow and steady wins the race. Don't run before you learn to walk. Patience pays in the long run.
Brilliant tutorial. Thanks.
Best teacher have ever seen
Thanks, Merce! You are wonderful!
Brilliant. You are such a great teacher.
Thank you ❤
This is exceptional
Thanks! The best lesson on practicing scales I have found. Thank you so much for posting this.
Thank you so much dear for your contribution to the channel. It made my day to read your comment and read that is helping you out! :)
Hello Merce as always awesomeness!
Loving your playing suggestions!! It is really nice when you demonstrate slowly 😀
just excellent.
What a terrific video. You're a remarkable teacher Merce. Thank you
Thank you JS!
You are an angel, I won't say anything else.. this lesson is amazing
Thanks! Very happy to read it was enjoyable and useful! Wish you a great Sunday!
Your teaching is excellent
Amazing skills. I just wonder how many hours a day over many years it has taken you to be so precise and have such dexterity. Your playing is on a whole different level. Thanks for posting.
Thank you
You're welcome
Great lesson. Thank you for sharing, Merce!
Thank you for your feedback! glad to read you found it useful! 😃
Great video😊
So happy to have found your channel!! Just started learning the guitar. Also my name is Mercy😃 and your name got me even more excited!
Music Study:09/21/2022, the recomended 2nd octave at absolute begginer level is a fun challenge! Yes "Maestro" scale study should fix many problems.
Awesome class! This is perfect for what I was looking for. Now let’s get to work!
Fantastic! You got this! :)
I downloaded the PDF and tried staccato in the scales. WOW. I was harder than I thought. Great video. Thank you for sharing
Yes! Articulation control doesn't come easy in the beginning, but I'm sure with a couple of practice sessions you'll get the hang of it! 😎
So helpful vídeo, I'll start practicing it today
Grazie per la lezione! Buon weekend!
Grazie a te per il tuo feedback! 😊
Very well explained and easy to follow. Thank you.
You are welcome!
Thank you very much for the great post !!!
My pleasure! Thanks for watching also! :)
Great teaching
Thank you! Glad it was helpful! :)
Pretty much stumbled on your channel--You're a very appealing instructor and your videos are concise and useful--a great supplement to what I'm working on with my teacher--thanks!
Thank you for sharing video ma'am, God bless you.
You are so welcome!
Amazing
Thank you! Cheers!
Thanks, you has my suscription and my hand👍.Now to practic
gracias, es de mucha ayuda
Me alegro!! Que tengas buen estudio!
Awesome....awesome....awesome!!!! Of coarse I've practiced scales.....but outside of just for speed and perhaps a bit for intonation and fret board familiarity.....I kinda never knew why or what my goal was and always rather haphazard......this kind of structured/focused instruction is sooooo what I've needed......for like EVER. It'll be fun and encouraging to integrate this into my daily practice as I will know I'm practicing with a more focused purpose. I've never practiced so consistently since I met you/your channel.....barely missed a day since.....before I'd do it when I felt like it and sometimes lapse for days.....you are such an inspiration to me its silly. Sorry.... but I must give you a big respectful hug thank you🤗🤗🤗💖🤗🤗🤗💖🤗🤗
Thank you so much Stephen! I'm so very glad that my videos are so helpful to you, you can't imagine how much meaning it gives to all the work behind making this videos! Indeed this approach with the scales seems to me very logic but unfortunately we don't seem to do it enough. I'm very confident that having the PDF besides your scores will make your practice routines and goals a bit easier and nicer on a daily basis :) Thank you so much for taking the time to write! My best wishes to you!
@@MerceFont Your work and sharing is so cool and inspirational ....I couldn't wait any longer......had to become a patron. Hopefully it won't be too long before I deserve getting the next level.
Good job.. 👏Warm cheers😘
This is amazing. For several years I've been using the Segovia scales as a standard part of my daily practice routine. While it's been helpful, I've always thought there could be a better way of learning the entire fretboard. Now I've found it. Thank you so much Merce!!
Wonderful! I think Segovia scales can be great, but It's important we add variety in the content and the approach to keep improving, otherwise is very easy to get a progress blockage. Glad this video helps you! :) Best wishes to you and keep practicing well!
@@MerceFont I had to order it from England, and it took 20 days to arrive, but I finally have a copy of Gangi's second method book featuring the scales you mention in your video. Already more of the fretboard is falling into place. Thanks once again, Merce!!
@@carlgeenen1654 wow thats great! I'm sure it will be woth the wait, for me this book is one of the few I always have around for my daily practice, so I'm confident it will help you for many many years to come :)
Awesome video! I subscribed!
Thanks for the sub!
Absolutely! Great Channel and Videos!
Very interesting. Going to re-watch it 😊 Not everything you're saying here is obvious, requires some thinking 😊 Thank you very much for your work!
Nice! Glad it was helpful! Best wishes to you Andrej!
Hi Merce, thanks for these videos! They're a huge aid to the practice routine! If possible it would be great to have the concepts in this video laid out in the same format as your videos on slurs and arpeggios (ie with the metronome and repetitions to practice along to). But also no stress as I know you're already busy doing a million and one things, so just a suggestion :)
Hi Chris! Absolutely, will be doing some more Workout videos for sure! :) Wish you a great week!
Extremely useful, thank you soooooo muuuuch this Is so helpful
Edit: may be you should add "classical guitar" to the title, it will help to find this beautiful lesson
Thanks for the tip! :)
Todo lo haces atraido en la guitarra: bravo por nuestra linda MESTRA
Gracias!! que pases un buen domingo! 😀
Really appreciating your videos, you're an excellent teacher - you are expert yourself and you can present information in a really understandable way. You're a very engaging personality and the way you phrase things shows a really high level command of the English language - far better than most native speakers!
If a person is quite knew to barre chords is it possible that sometimes some strings may sound badly despite doing everything technically well - the bad sound coming merely from the fact the index finger is not yet calloused at all and so it has soft squishy flesh, whereas using the same technique with a finger that has hardened a bit will produce good sound? I think sometimes new guitarists are working so hard pressing down hard as possible trying to somehow squeeze out good sound, but really the technique is good and they just need to be patient to develop more calloused fingers and finger strength.
To build on the question you answered in the tutorial, is it possible to learn classical guitar without being able to read standard notation? Is it just a small advantage to read music or is it a necessity?
Also, do all of your tutorials apply to playing on steel string acoustic guitar with guitar resting on lap in that non-classical way equally to classical guitar between legs?
Good
Thanks!
Thank you so much for this tips. It’s really helpful since I have been wondering how to get the right-hand fingers to have a smooth movement in playing fast scale since they all have different lengths 😂. In playing fast scale such as in Capricho Årabe, do you always use “i m a” right hand fingers or just “i m”? Thank you again and again for this video!
Great video! Do you have any videos focusing on rest stroke and right hand staccato? Thanks!
A tutorial specifically on these topics not yet, but will certainly work on it :)
Thank you so much! I also have a question about your guitar. Is it beneficial to get shorter scale (630 or 640, instead for 650)?
Wow those -TINGS- really blew my eardrums out lol
👍👍👍
This is truly special. Good practising tutorials have always been on of my passions, and you really make it special. Always wanted to record it as well. Maybe I'll try it on my channel one day. Subscribed :)
thanks! yeah it's nice to take the time to put ideas down. That's the fun part, then it comes the endless editing... :D Let me know if you make your own tutorials, I'd love to watch as well :)
What's your opinion on the Segovia's scales?
Hi Merce, could you spell the name of the book you mentioned in which all the scales are written out with alternate fingerings. Thank you so much for your generous teaching.
Of course, the book is Mario Gangi Metodo per Chitarra 2 :)
Any advice for keeping fingers of right hand straight. Thanks
Hi Mark! Straight? I don’t think you have to force to keep them straight, the best and most natural way to play is allowing them to curve naturally and not compress them with a too low and close to the string right hand nor too high so that you need to extend the fingers. That should improve your tone, accuracy and ease of movement. Give it a try and let me know how it goes :)
I never know if I should anchor the right-hand thumb on only the 6th string or move the right-hand thumb from string to string. Is the anchoring different for free stroke than for est stroke? I see you doing it both ways.
0:09 if you can play it slowly you can play it quickly!
hahahahahhaha this sounds like twoset violin comment style 😂
@@MerceFont Yes, you're right :D And you nailed every note 👌👌
Is there a problem with the scale guide link? I cant access it :(
Hi Siavash! Please try again with the link. It should open the download window on another tab. If you don't receive the email, please check your spam inbox, sometimes these emails get filtered there. Let me know if you got it! :)
Yes! It didn't work the other day but I got it last night. It was in the Promotions section of my inbox. Thank you very much :)
The gap between my technicality and my reading is actually concerning 😅
Bruh how I found dis
no idea Bruh, maybe you've got some inner wish to learn guitar... hahahah!
You're so beautiful
I just want to say you're so beautiful =)