How To Really Practice Scales - Part 1

Please support us on Patreon to download a PDF for Jason’s handwritten notes for the entire tutorial series: https://www.patreon.com/jasonzac. Also, consider joining our “Music Gym” with properly defined monthly goals to help you grow as a three-dimensional musician (Ear training, Music theory & technique) Here’s a 5-part series with “creative rhythmic approaches” to practice Major scales ascending & descending. All of the exercises given will work on your improvisation skills while holding the shape and fingering of the exercise. This set of tutorials aims to be a lot more interesting than just playing the scale up and down, where the only intention might be speed & dexterity

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