Why I Recommend Learning the Five Pattern Scale System - 477

Play Guitar Podcast by Lee Anderson

Aug 5, 202615:25Music

The Five Pattern Scale System helps you stop seeing isolated scale shapes and start seeing one connected fretboard. In this episode, I'll explain why I recommend learning all five patterns and how they create the foundat...

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