First Things First: Determine your objective.

What are you trying to do at the moment in your guitar playing?

Are you trying to learn a song?... or maybe it’s just learning a new chord?

There’s also many times we just want to brush up on our chops, which is more or less like fielding ground balls in little league.

Lets start there since that is probably the most common.

If your focus is doing scales, your goal in 15 minutes is to make sure what you are doing is not forgettable.  Make sure it is memorable.

But just how do you do that? Make it challenging!

Whatever scale you decide to brush up on, make sure you are playing it up and down the neck.

If you play the scale from the open position to.........