Originally Posted by: KasperowI'm going to re-run the Guitar Fundamentals II Course, because it seems like there's something I may have skipped by accident or just plain forgotten. In either case, it can't hurt to go through it again :)
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Always a good idea to review.

You started this thread asking if chord shapes where moveable. And in essence, you are right. GF2 Chapter 3 covers a lot of chord theory. And Chapter 8 covers barre chords, which means it is all about movable chord shapes! So, you might get a lot out of just review those two chapters.

Originally Posted by: Kasperow
However, I'd like to know something before I throw myself over the GF2 Course again: Is there an easy, fun way to learn scales and build speed? And by that, I don't mean just playing through the scale up and down hundreds of times with a metronome to keep up with.

No. :)

Well, yes, but they all amount to the same thing: repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, etc.

And a lot of this depends upon what kind of rock playing, songs, styles, skill level you are talking about. The vast majority of rock & blues players (and performing artists) never played scales systemically with a metronome. They just learn a lick from a song or friend or tab book, then play it 10,000 times a day until it's second nature. Then, they learn another lick & do it 10,000 times. Rinse & repeat.

Since all licks are essentially bits of scales ready made to drop in a song, they can build a vocabulary of things to "say", without ever drilling scales with a metronome.

This is how EVH, SRV, Hendrix, Page, Clapton, etc. built their chops.

The other thing all these guys did, and many rock & blues players is to play along with a drummer or other musicians all the time. For them, this is what took the place of having to drill with a metronome.

But there is simply no getting around logging hours & days & weeks & years on the machine, regardless of how you approach it.
[QUOTE=Kasperow]I'm really eager to learn how to play some real Rock, but my sloppy fingers and lack of knowledge are standing in the way, at the moment.