Best Scale To Learn First On The Guitar For Improvising A Solo

As a fellow beginner guitar player...well I have been playing for about ten years but I would still call myself a beginner, I just want to share a little experience I had that might help(hopefully) any fellow guitar player who was in the same place I was a few years ago.

After playing guitar for a while and getting reasonably competent with all the chords and the set piece solos, I wanted to move on to try something I have always found amazing...improvising a solo live on the spot.

Now unless you are one of the musically gifted who can just look at the guitar frets and hear musical notes, which I am not, it will involving learning scales. But which one?

That was the dilemma I had. Obviously the holy grail is to know every single scale, but which scale would be the best starting point? Which scale would be reasonably easy to learn at the same time as enabling me to improvise to a large variety of songs.

Well for me, if you are to start to learn one scale, one of the best one should be the PENTATONIC scale.

So you are thinking what is the advantage of this scale? Well let me tell you.

1. It is reasonably easy to learn...that always helps :)
2. It is compatible with almost every song. Once you learn the pentatonic scale you will be able to improvise solos for almost every song. The only thing you will need to know is what key the song is in, then you can just simply move the scale pattern you have learned up or down the fret.
3. You can use this one scale throughout the whole songs. Unlike other scales like the A Major or C Minor scales for example, it will only be compatible for certain part of the song. The pentatonic scale is compatible as long as the song stays in the same key, which most songs do.

So that is all the tip I have for this post. I hope this helps anyone who is stuck in the same place as I was. Hey but don't take my word for it, go and try it out for yourself.