Guitar Theory For Beginners Lesson Major Scales
Hey there, I�m Tomas Michaud from Real Guitar School. Today, I�m going to build the lesson
that we started previously about the major scale and we did the major scale form. Now
I�m gonna explain a little more theory and set the stage for explaining a whole bunch
more stuff in the future. You�re gonna like this. By the way, make sure you watch at the
very end because I�m gonna tie the previous lesson with this one together at the end of
this lesson.
Okay let me show you the scale. It�s on one string to fifth string and were gonna
start on the third fret that is a C note. Now one of the things I wanna explain to you
is about intervals. There�s whole steps and half steps. Whole steps are two frets
on the guitar so that�s a whole step two frets up now half step is just one fret, make
sense. By the way, some people called this a whole tone and a semi tone. Whole tone is
two frets same as the whole step, semi tone is just the half step. So play the scale � C
go a whole step up to D, whole step up to E now half step to F up to G that�s a whole
step going to A now. Remember we are going farther past G with the letters A, B is another
whole step and C is a half-step that is one octave. We displayed all eight notes in the
scale, seven notes plus the repeat of the C. The C is an octave of this C. What that
means is the same note name C but eight notes up � 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 � C octave
C. This would be called down an octave and this would be up an octave.
Now the numbers, that�s what I want you to practice this week is the numbers, count
with me - C is 1, 2 D next 3. I�m not even worried about the note names just the numbers
for now. C1, D2, 3 next note, 4 at the half step good, 5, 6, 7 and 8 back to the C octave.
Now that�s what I want you to practice. Count the numbers up the scale � 1, 2, 3,
4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and were gonna use that to explain more music theory.
Let�s go ahead and apply a little of that to what we did in the last lesson. Remember
we played this major scale and then I explained how you can move around. Today, were gonna
move it up to C. C is on the eight fret that�s 7, 8 start on the eight fret sixth string
at C that�s a C major scale okay. And if you haven�t seen that lesson, go ahead and
review the lesson before this one with the major scale form. So I want you to count start
with the first note which is C 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and the next note would be 8 but
because were gonna keep going, were gonna start over at 1 again. It�s actually and
octave higher than the starting C so we�ll count 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and instead of 8,
its gonna be 1 again 1, 2, 3, 4 and that�s all the way up as far as we go.
Your lesson this week is to practice the numbers with the scale all the way up on one string
that�s the A string and then practice counting the numbers with the major scale form. Get
a little practice on the scale as well.
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on over to my blog I have a cheat sheet for you to download and more to this lesson. It
will make more sense. You can find the link, right up there in the corner.