Originally Posted by: Kevin TaylorThere's a separate search feature for the forum right next where it says 'New Posts'. You can either do a basic search or an advanced one.

As far as scales go, I can only speak for myself but I found it most important to learn the pentatonic scales first. Especially in the keys of E and A but if you play with a keyboardist, they'll tend to play in C so that key's important as well. After that I moved straight on to 3 note per string scales. The trick being to not only learn the scales, but learn them backwards and forwards and up and down the neck. Switching positions and doing things like skipping strings.

Several people have lessons on these. Mine are still in the older low definition video format & I think there's even some old ASCII text in there but they're here if you want to look at them.

http://guitartricks.com/lesson.php?input=3050&c_id=8&ch_id=43&s_id=28


Another cool trick is to learn every scale starting with an upstroke as well as you normally would. In other words, instead of starting with a downstroke and using alternate picking ie, down/up/down/up. Start with an upstroke and go the opposite way. If you learn all your scales both ways you'll be a lot more proficient at switching things up in mid scale.

You also might look up economy picking as well. Basically, every time you play an ascending scale (going up), you use a downstroke on the next string.
When you descend, you use alternate picking. That way you're doing less pick movement than strictly sticking with alternate picking.