The problem with scales on a guitar is not getting to the next note, which is relatively easy. It's if you're playing a piece and you haven't worked out the sca

The problem with scales on a guitar is not getting to the next note, which is relatively easy. It's if you're playing a piece and you haven't worked out the scale to use first and then halfway through you find you need to either get your index finger off the string it's on and onto the string above, or get your pinky waaaaay over there on the same string, and what looks like a simple step is actually really hard - in that scale.