[rerdavies]

For Jazz musicians, scales can be a curse. It depends greatly on what you're training yourself to do. If you're training yourself to play notes in order, that's what you're going to be able do. A more helpful thing to aim for might be to train yourself to "hear-it -> play-it" for every degree of a scale, preferably in random order so you avoid the "consecutive notes" thing. Or, maybe better (at the risk of side-controversy that's probably not worth hashing over here), "hear-it -> play-it" for every degree of a mode.