Weekly Workout: Chord Scales

Have you learned the fingerboard through scale practice? Then you probably realized that, while scales are great finger exercises and give you a basic sense of where the notes are on the fingerboard, if you don't combine your finger work with some mental muscle you're not going to know how to use those scales when it comes time to making music. So, in addition to practicing scales, it's good to remind yourself of the function of the individual notes of those scales.