Scales take a long time to get good at, I run scales as a warm up every day.If you sit down with goal to master them it might take several years (or decades).My instructor encourages me to get the jist of what we are working on throw it my practice routine and move forward. It is not something to sit down and figure out it is a process.


Oh ya, and like everyone else says we generally want to learn so we can play our favorite songs and have fun. With the knowledge of a few chords and a handful of notes you can play a gillion songs.