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Originally Posted by foxo

Thanks Stanron, this looks interesting!

Thanks SprintBob, I'll check out those books. Maybe I took a few comments the wrong way, I would like to break into melody but it's a bit of a source of frustration how hard I find it.

I noticed in Justin's lessons (in the link that I provided above), that he demonstrates how to play up and down the scale of whatever key you're in whilst holding down an open chord. I think that would help with finding your own melody notes, and it seems like a very good exercise to me.

Here's the link directly to the specific lesson: https://www.justinguitar.com/guitar-...lations-fo-104

That one is for the major scale, and there is also one for the minor scale.

Of course, playing scales, like patterns, should also be "unlearned", which really means being able to use them for creative purposes without thinking about them.