Scale Weapon 3: Three-Note-Per-String Scales...
This is an approach used by many guitarists. It is one of the best approaches for anyone interested in speed and fluidity. It allows you to learn almost any scale over the entire fretboard. It's also an approach that can be used for all styles of music. I've personally used it for styles ranging from speed metal to traditional jazz. :-)

Here are a few of the things that you'll learn...

        You will learn how to create your own three-note-per-string fingerings. This will give you the confidence to construct fingerings for almost any scale.

        You will learn the detailed 4 step method for memorizing any scale fingering. Isn't it frightening how many scale learning methods give you scale fingerings, but don't tell you the best way to memorize them? This does NOT help you one bit. :-) In this lesson, I tell you in great detail about how to easily and permanently imprint any fingering into your brain.

Imagine how this will help you learn scales faster!

       You will learn 8 foundational exercises using the 3-note-per-string approach. These are designed to quickly program scale fingerings into your muscle memory. They also help you to improve your alternate picking, pull-offs and hammer-ons.

       You will learn 8 very powerful triad arpeggio exercises. Guitarists often struggle to combine arpeggios and scales together in a musical way. These 8 exercises help you visualize diatonic triad arpeggios within scale fingerings. This really helps you learn to integrate arpeggios into your playing...which will make your soloing sound more interesting and melodic.

       You will learn 8 specific 7th arpeggio exercises. Anyone wanting to solo in a jazz or fusion style needs to learn these exercises. :-) They help you program cool sounding arpeggios into your fingers. They will also help your picking and fret hand technique tremendously!

        You will learn my 8 most favorite intervallic exercises. They sound great and really help you improve your technique...especially your string skipping!

        You will learn how to apply melodic patterns to different fingerings. This helps you to adapt the ideas you learn to any fingering. What does this do? It helps improve your technique, scale knowledge and your ability to improvise.

Scale Weapon 4: Ear Training...

     Many guitarists sound like they are just running up-and-down scales when they improvise. Their solos can sound boring, rigid and unmusical. They just don't make music when they solo.

     So what's the solution? Easy...

     Ear Training!!!

     It is the master key that unlocks musicality. Seriously. When you do Ear Training everything about your improvising improves. Why is that? Music is sound. Music is a hearing art! Doesn't it make sense that as your ability to hear improves, everything improves with it?

      Over the years, I've studied many different approaches to Ear Training. Some worked...some were frustrating and boring...

       From this intensive study I've developed some of my own unique methods that really work. What you get with this section of the website are the "cliff notes". You learn only the most effective, powerful and practical approaches to Ear Training scales.

      Let's take a look at what you'll learn...

      You'll learn the 4 step process of effective Ear Training. Using these 4 steps means you'll learn the sound of scales faster and more easily.

      You'll learn 4 foundation exercises. These simple exercises quickly imprint the sound of any scale into your brain.

      You'll learn exactly what to do if you can't sing a note at all. Many Ear Training methods skip this vital step.

      You'll learn 8 pivot exercises. Don't know exactly what every note of a particular scale sounds like? These exercises solve that problem!

      You'll learn to sight sing 32 different melodies...all without having to read music! By the time you finish this step, the sound of a scale will be tattooed in your brain for life. Just imagine how this could help your soloing.

      You'll learn two powerful reinforcement exercises. These help you learn the sound of a scale on an even deeper level.

Scale Weapon 5: Applications...

        This is the fifth component of The Guitar Scale Mastery System. This section ensures that you actually gain experience using the scales that you learn. This is vital! What's the point of learning scales if you don't use them in a musical setting?

Guitar Scale Activators are special backing tracks. They are designed to bring to life (activate) the sound of any scale that you are practicing. This is very powerful. Some of the benefits of using the Guitar Scale Activators include...

You'll eventually program chord/scale relationships into your brain. This means that when you hear a chord you'll be able to automatically hear the scale that works over that chord. Obviously, this is a useful skill for any improvising guitarist!

You'll enjoy practicing scales more. Scale exercises and licks sound much more interesting when played over the correct Guitar Scale Activator.

You'll learn to internalize the sounds of scales much faster. This will help you to improvise more confidently in a much more musical way.

You'll imprint the sound of chords into your brain. This is done on a subconscious level. As you practice your brain will be absorbing the sound of the chord used on the Guitar Scale Activator.