- Lesson Title:
Intro to the Major Scale
- Guitar Instructor: Douglas Showalter
- Lesson Added: February 19th 2009
- Lesson Files: Video Guitar Lesson
- Lesson Difficulty:
- Lesson Focus: Scales
- Lesson Style: Rock
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Excerpt:
The Major Scale is the foundation for nearly all of what we know as Western Harmony. It's construction allows us to understand how nearly all rock music goes together, and our understanding of it's workings is an essential part of everyone's musical education. The construction of the major scale follows the same formula every time. Starting from your root note (the key you are playing in), you move up the following pattern:
H = Half Step (1 fret on the guitar)
- always ascending up the guitar in pitch
The Major Scale is the foundation for nearly all of what we know as Western Harmony. It's construction allows us to understand how nearly all rock music goes together, and our understanding of it's workings is an essential part of everyone's musical education. The construction of the major scale follows the same formula every time. Starting from your root note (the key you are playing in), you move up the following pattern:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 W - W - H - W - W - W - H C - D - E - F - G - A - B - C G - A - B - C - D - E - F# - G D - E - F# - G - A - B - C# - D A - B - C# - D - E - F# - G# - A F - G - A - Bb - C - D - E - FW = Whole Step (2 frets on the guitar)
H = Half Step (1 fret on the guitar)
- always ascending up the guitar in pitch
Notice the numbering...
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