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Hey @Brian2501 ,
Thanks for posting this. I started doing this a very long time ago so I could learn to sing the “proper” melody to songs. Because I started doing it so long ago, I never thought about sharing it. But I’m really glad you did.
Not only will it help us to sing a melody, which is why I did it. It will also help us with scales, which you noticed. But also it helps with a number of other things. You have to translate notes to the guitar, which helped my get better at reading standard music notation and helped me to memorize the notes on the guitar, or at least the open position notes (I have since learned the entire fretboard).
Finally, it will help you understand melody in general so you can create your own or come up with great solos. This will help you if you do ever start writing your own songs.
That’s a lot of small wins in one little practice idea.
MG 😀