How to Play the Major Scale on One Guitar String
In this video lesson I teach how to play the major scale on one guitar string. This lesson is very simple but critically important for new guitarists. Before you get started, please download this Major Scale chart that accompanies this video guitar lesson. (free membership is needed)
The whole lesson can be summed-up relatively easily. First, a whole-step is when you play a note and then play another note 2 frets higher or lower in pitch and a half-step is just one fret higher or lower in pitch. Second, the Major Scale is simply a repeating pattern of half-steps and whole-steps. You can start the pattern on any note, this first note is called the 1st degree of the Major Scale. Then you play a series of notes from this first degree that follows this pattern of half and whole steps: W-W-H-W-W-W-H -then repeat again if you wish. The video lesson will further clarify the Major Scale, and if you have any questions please leave a comment.
BTW, in the movie the Sound of Music when they sing doe-ray-me-fa-so-la-ti-doe they are singing the Major Scale. As guitarists, we use degrees (numbers) to refer to the notes of the Major Scale instead of singing phonetic sounds.
The whole lesson can be summed-up relatively easily. First, a whole-step is when you play a note and then play another note 2 frets higher or lower in pitch and a half-step is just one fret higher or lower in pitch. Second, the Major Scale is simply a repeating pattern of half-steps and whole-steps. You can start the pattern on any note, this first note is called the 1st degree of the Major Scale. Then you play a series of notes from this first degree that follows this pattern of half and whole steps: W-W-H-W-W-W-H -then repeat again if you wish. The video lesson will further clarify the Major Scale, and if you have any questions please leave a comment.
BTW, in the movie the Sound of Music when they sing doe-ray-me-fa-so-la-ti-doe they are singing the Major Scale. As guitarists, we use degrees (numbers) to refer to the notes of the Major Scale instead of singing phonetic sounds.
