About the scales
Can you play the major scale in the key of E, all on the lowest e string?
Does the following make sense to you?
1 - whole step – 2 - whole step – 3 - half step – 4 - whole step – 5 - whole step – 6 - whole step – 7 - half step – 1
About you
Do you take lessons?
Are you learning to read music (treble/bass clef, key/time signature stuff)?
What are you goals for music/guitar?
General
You play guitar with your hands; you play music with your ears. Your mind is the connection between the two, and scales is one of the tools you use to form that connection.
When you hear a loud burst of noise coming behind you, you instinctively flinch with respect to that direction. One of the goals of learning scales is to instinctively (or almost) associate a hand(s) positioning when you hear a grouping of notes (either as a chord or melody).
Scales are the basis of "interval training."
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