What's the best order to learn the various scales and why?

#1 Major Scale: Why? Because it's the foundation of western musical theory
#2 Minor Scale: Why? Because it's almost just as important as the major scale to the foundation of theory
#3 All others in no particular order

So just to be clear, it's better to learn, say, the pentatonic scales after major and minor? And thanks a lot for the response.

I would say so, yes. Major and minor first. Then all the others... because the major scale and the minor scale are very important to western music theory, it would be best to not only learn the major and minor scales but really understand the intervals and relationships of the notes and the triads built from these notes before moving forward.

I guess i'm going backwards,,Pentatonic minor and blues scales are what I've l been practicing probably because of my love for the blues. I never learned the Major and Minor scales. my bad.

No way!!!
Pebber....
You are GURU....your method is best...!

Guys dont do anything different from whats on the free downloads!

MAJOR---MELODIC MINOR---HARMONIC MINOR---HUNGARIAN MINOR----MELODIC MINOR +4 !!!!

memorize theees way

If you put them side by side
You will notice that they differ from each by one note.....meaning......
MAJOR TO MELODIC MINOR----b3rd
MELODIC to HARMONIC----b6
HARM to HUNG----#4
HUNG to MELODIC #4----natural 6th

If my memory serves me correctly...lol!

Its a really easy way to memorize them in this order...they build off of each others pattern.

plus....you should be WRITING then out by pencil 10 times each pattern per day. This is the quickest way
to remember them as well as playing them over and over..and....(x1000000000000)!

Just my opinion...as long as you keep practicing and trying to remember them...thats what counts!

Thanks,

Just want to thank you for all the hard work on the videos and the Pentatonic scales :)

I still suck and im a bit of a hack but at my age 43,,its a great feeling to go back and try to learn guitar properly
you have inspired me to setup a practice routine daily, I dont play live and i dont play in a band but i want to be a much better player.
Thanks for the inspiration.

Great advice ,,thanks

Not being in a band could never be an exuse...cmon man, get your ass on other scales as soon as possible, and yes, if you know pentatonics quite good, you'll be able to figure out "additional" tones of other scales around them pretty fast.

I learned my modes first and happened to be playing the pentatonics by accident for a couple years before I solidly knew the 5 positions after opening a book. The pentatonics just seemed right to me when playing in a rock context.