{"id":8031,"date":"2020-05-29T15:17:35","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T22:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=8031"},"modified":"2020-05-29T15:17:35","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T22:17:35","slug":"end-your-scales-on-beat-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/end-your-scales-on-beat-1\/","title":{"rendered":"END Your Scales On Beat 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most folks, when practicing scales, start playing on beat 1 and play through the scale&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And while that makes sense academically, it often doesn&#8217;t make sense musically \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>There are 2 reasons: 1) you don&#8217;t want to start your licks on beat 1, so maybe not starting your scales on beat 1 will help you get used to that.<\/p>\n<p>And 2) if you&#8217;re playing a scale, like a mode, that might lead your ear to a note other than the root, not having the root land on beat 1 is rather &#8211; unsettling&#8230; or unsatisfying at the least.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video&#8230; easier to show that tell \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-plugin-new youtube\" style=\"max-width:100%; width:853px; height:auto; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0; margin:0 auto;margin:0 auto; border: 0px solid #fff;margin-bottom: 20px;\"><div style=\"width:853px;height:0;  padding-bottom: 56.271981242673%; padding-top:0;\"><iframe width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5ogE_iEPkR0?wmode=opaque&showinfo=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;vq=&amp;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most folks, when practicing scales, start playing on beat 1 and play through the scale&#8230; And while that makes sense academically, it often doesn&#8217;t make sense musically \ud83d\ude41 There are 2 reasons: 1) you don&#8217;t want to start your licks on beat 1, so maybe not starting your scales on beat 1 will help you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8031"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8032,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8031\/revisions\/8032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}