Open Em Ascending and Descending
The open E minor scale on guitar is an awesome fast scale that you can play really early on when learning guitar and sound great. This lesson really ups the speed and gives you a taste of what learning your scales can mean to your guitar playing. This is an essential tool for all guitarists and you should pick it up pretty quickly, but then you need to speed it up – and that takes practice. Pair this with an E minor chord and you can get a really cool rhythm with some lead riffs happening – get creative. The support material for this lesson can be found here – https://7minutemusic.com/scale/level-2/open-em-ascending-and-descending/ and if you haven’t done the counterpart to this the A minor scale check it out here – https://7minutemusic.com/scale/level-2/open-am-ascending-and-descending/.
Backing Track – E minor to A minor
Use the tips of your fingers
Push down hard
Practice to a metronome
Level 2 Progress
Play through scale 5 times ascending and descending correctly at any speed
Play through scale at 120 BPM 3 times in a row with no mistakes
Play through scale while the backing track is playing
Strum an Em chord then play the scale ascending and descending
Play through the scale at 150 BPM descending then ascending