Learning scales

I've been playing guitar for nearly two years now. I have the pentatonic minor scale down, but also want to learn all the other scales. The best way seems to be just learning all of the fretboard notes, right? Well, what's the best way to do that then? :)

I am new (been playing 18 months) but the trick is really patterns.

There are a number of patters to learn and then they can be moved up and down the neck for each scale root. There are a number of scale books available that outline the patters behind them. Learn the patterns (5 or so) for a scale and then just move the pattern for a new root.

Hope this helps.

Curt

This place is great...try the scale calculator.

They have most scales, and probably a few some of the younger crowd
hasn't.

http://www.jguitar.com/

Just my two cents...

My fave scales, or at least ones I use 90% of the time are...

Aeolian (Natural minor)
Phrygian
Super-Locrian
Harmonic Minor
Double Harmonic
Overtone
Half-Whole
Altered
and all forms of diminished...

Keep in mind that this site doesn't have every scale known to man.
There are tons of solos and music in general that use variations
on all these.

Use you ears as well as your mind and eyes...

How did you go about learning all of those scales? Did you learn the shapes or all the notes on the fretboard, and the notes in each scale?

Well first off... there are more than just 5 scale "patterns"...there are tons of scales. Check out "The Guitar Grimoire" it's basically a compilation of every scale known to man. Learning the notes on the fretboard is helpful in learning scales becuase if you know certain scale patterns, and where the root notes are in those patterns... you can find the root and play the scale. But you can also go about it from the other direction. If you know the scales and the roots, you will know where all the notes are on the fretboard. I learned all the scales that I know basically by playing... I have the book that I suggested above as well.. and it helps me with finding unique scales when writing songs or challenging myself with new exercises using scales that I'm not familiar with.

I've recently bought some Desk top publishing software:
On an A4 page I've printed a neck diagram of the first twelve frets including all the note positions - I've coloured all the notes of 'A blues scale ' - blue, and all the rest black.
Its early days, but I think its helping