I know that they are a necessary-evil to learn if you want to learn how to solo, figure out chord structure, etc. But the whole thing sounds as fishy to me as someone saying you want to learn programming, learn Theory of Computation/Turing Machine etc.
As another guitarist, I find that knowing scales let's me more easily noodle around and make stuff that sounds good. At this point, it's really just muscle memory, and I don't have to actually think about the scale much, I just intuitively know that putting my finger in a particular position will bring in a particular sound. Even when using all sorts of altered tunings, I can adapt quickly enough by mapping out scales I want to use. But that wouldn't be possible now if I hadn't learned about scales early on, and had some understanding of how they worked, however minor.
The programming analog might be learning how to write your own functions rather than than simply copy-pasting (ie, composing music yourself instead of just learning songs others have made).
I know that they are a necessary-evil to learn if you want to learn how to solo, figure out chord structure, etc. But the whole thing sounds as fishy to me as someone saying you want to learn programming, learn Theory of Computation/Turing Machine etc.
As another guitarist, I find that knowing scales let's me more easily noodle around and make stuff that sounds good. At this point, it's really just muscle memory, and I don't have to actually think about the scale much, I just intuitively know that putting my finger in a particular position will bring in a particular sound. Even when using all sorts of altered tunings, I can adapt quickly enough by mapping out scales I want to use. But that wouldn't be possible now if I hadn't learned about scales early on, and had some understanding of how they worked, however minor.
The programming analog might be learning how to write your own functions rather than than simply copy-pasting (ie, composing music yourself instead of just learning songs others have made).