Lesson: Favourite Moveable Major and Minor Scales for Classical Guitar

ByBradford Werner
2019

This is from my new book Classical Guitar Technique: Essential Exercises, Scales, and Arpeggios. The 122 page book includes: Practice Routines, Tips, 100 Open String Exercises, 120 Giuliani Arpeggios, Scales, Slur Exercises, Shifts, Finger Independence, Barre, Tremolo, Common Harmonics, and much more.

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As with one octave scales, certain keys are used below as examples but practice the patterns in various keys by playing the same pattern/fingering at different starting frets. I’ve started each scale around the 4th and 5th position for left hand ease. I’ve chosen these patterns because they utilize a variety of shifts, fingering concepts, guide fingers, or squeeze shifts. A squeeze shift is a one fret micro shift often including a fingering just before that will allow sustain of the previous note.

Bradford Werner

Bradford Werner is a classical guitarist and music publisher from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He originally created this site for his students at the Victoria Conservatory of Music but now shares content worldwide. Curating guitar content helps students absorb the culture, musical ideas, and technique of the classical guitar. Bradford also has a YouTube channel with over 94,000 subscribers and 13 million views. He taught classical guitar at the Victoria Conservatory of Music for 16 years and freelanced in Greater Victoria for 20 years and now dedicates much of his time curating content online and helping connect the classical guitar community. See more at his personal website.