Major Scale Pattern 1 excercise: what fingers to use

[Wannes]

Hi,

I've been enjoying the courses in Ultimate Guitar Mastery Grid. At one point in one of the video's, the teacher was showing a major scale pattern 1 excercise that went like this:

1234 2345 3456 4567 5671 and so on. I noticed that, in this excercise, he was using different fingers on the B and E-string than he uses normally in Major Scale Pattern 1. I tried to figure it out by watching the video, but it wasn' t very clear. Now that I want to check it out again, I can't find the video anymore.

Can anyone help me?

 

[Fred Soukup]

@Wannesif you will notice 1234 are the first 4 notes of the scale pattern. The exercise is designed to help you find the notes without looking because you train your fingers where to go.

Fred 🎸

[Alan Desmond]

On 12/2/2022 at 4:32 PM, Wannes said:

Hi,

I've been enjoying the courses in Ultimate Guitar Mastery Grid. At one point in one of the video's, the teacher was showing a major scale pattern 1 excercise that went like this:

1234 2345 3456 4567 5671 and so on. I noticed that, in this excercise, he was using different fingers on the B and E-string than he uses normally in Major Scale Pattern 1. I tried to figure it out by watching the video, but it wasn' t very clear. Now that I want to check it out again, I can't find the video anymore.

Can anyone help me?

 

So many guys (professionals who post clips) have fantastic dexterity. But guess lots of us have problems with getting fingers to co operate over 4 frets. So if I were you I wouldn't worry too much & just use the fingers you can comfortably make the notes with. Keep up the dexterity exercises though,maybe one day our fingers will be able to go any where like Johnathan & other pro's do

[Mark Bell]

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