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Learn How To Play Scales On Guitar – The Major Scale

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Playing guitar solos and improvising begin with learning scales. This is basic boring grunt work which ultimately helps you mature as a musician and a composer. You may not be brilliant but if you persevere with learning scales, you will definitely surprise yourself. You will find yourself making up tunes, riffs and licks equal in quality to anything you find on records.

So resign yourself to some slow, careful scale practice. The major scale has a fixed “space” between each note. The distance of one fret separating two notes is called a “step”. If notes are next to each other on the guitar neck, they are a “half step” apart. For example, if you play the open sixth string to sound the note E, a half step up will be F which you will find on the first fret.

Here is a simple video lesson on the major scale:

And to progress a little further, here is an article on learning blues guitar scales.


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One Response to “Learn How To Play Scales On Guitar – The Major Scale”

  1. Peter Yee
    October 27th, 2009 @ 12:52 pm

    Dear Sir/Madam

    I can only see you fingering all the strings from the first to the sixth strings. Playing these strings in a scale creates a very nice melodic sound. But I still do not understand how I can apply this trick when playing solo accoustic classical music.

    I would very much appreciate it if you could kindly explain to me how it could be done. Thank you so much.

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