So on today's lesson, I'm going to teach you a scale.
Now remember a scale is a collection of notes that sounds good together.
Another way to look at it is this.
Let's say you're walking in the woods and you've got a creek in front of you.
You want to step on the right rocks so you don't fall in the creek. Well,
think of the creek as the music you're playing over.
Think of the right rocks as the scale I'm about to show you and think of falling
in the water as a wrong note. You don't want to hit any wrong notes,
so this scale will keep you on the straight and narrow. This scale again,
is a pretty simple one.
There's two notes per string and there's a couple of different ways to think
about it and I'll share with you a couple of ways that have helped me because
one of the problems you'll run into is actually remembering the scale,
but I think you'll find it's a lot easier than I'm setting it up to me.
So let's just dig into the scale. It's going to start with your index finger.
On the fifth fret of the low e string. Go ahead and play that note.
Then your pinky finger is going to drop to the eighth fret of the low east
string so far, two notes,
five or you can think of it as index thinking.
Now you're going to move to the ace string. Press the fifth fret,
their index finger.
Your ring finger is going to drop on the seventh fret of the AA strengths,
so five, seven or index.
Right now when we moved to the d string,
you're going to do the same exact pattern, five,
seven or index ring.
And just for the sake of Megan, it's super easy.
We're going to do that same thing on the g string. It'll be the fifth fret,
and then the seventh fret or again, index on the beast.
Strength things change up a little bit.
We'll drop the index to the fifth threat again,
but now the pinky is going to reach to the eighth fret
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and then to close things out,
we'll drop our index finger to the fifth fret of the high e.
So
there's a couple of different ways you can think about the scale to really lock
it in your memory. The first is just fret numbers, right? You can say five,
eight five, seven, five, seven, five,
seven, five, eight
bye.
Or, and this is the way that really locked it in for me was to actually name the
fingers. Since we're playing with one finger per fret,
essentially you can say starting on the low east side
index, pinking index, ring index,
ring index, ring index.
It makes it much easier to remember and kind of a item.
It gives you a little device to really lock it in your brain.
So here's what I want you to do with this scale.
The first step is getting familiar with it.
You want to get familiar with those rocks in the creek so you don't fall in the
water.
So run this scale forwards and backwards.
What I mean is you're going to run it in an ascending fashion,
the low ie to the high e, and then once you reach that fifth fret of the high e,
you're going to reverse the pattern and descend back to the low east string.
Here's an example.
Mm hmm
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Okay.
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once you have the scale under your fingers and are comfortable with it,
the next step will be the next lesson where we're going to take this very scale
and use it to play your first solo over a piece of music.
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