The red dots with the big M represents the starting point for playing in the Major scale (if an M dot lands on a G note, you’re playing G major). The small m represents the starting point for playing the minor scale (if a small m lands on E, you’re playing E minor). The black dots are notes that fill in the rest of the scale and they don’t have any particular importance in my chart. The dot that has “3b” inside of it is the note that gives the Blues scale a bluesy sound. In fact, this note is often called the blue note.
Let’s say that you want to play the A major scale using the left shape. To play this, you slide the scale around until one of the big “M” dots land on a A note. In the left shape, the big M is on the G string, 2nd fret. Coincidentally, this is where you’re going to play this shape on the fretboard. If that one note all the way to the left in this shape is on the first fret, then your big M lands on A, and you’re playing the A major scale.
Now that you’re playing the A major scale, try noodling along with a song that’s in the key of A. “Fake Plastic Trees” by Radiohead is in A, so is “Help”, by The Beatles. If you good off in those scales while listening to these songs, it will sound more or less fine. Slide everything up or down a fret and you’ll hear just how bad it can be to play along in the wrong key. In order to play in a different key, just slide your shape around on the fretboard until one of the big M’s lands on the major key you want, or one of the little m’s for the minor key you want. This will require you to know some notes on the fretboard, otherwise you’ll never know what key you’re playing in. Here’s a picture of the notes on the fretboard that I pulled up after a few seconds on google.
C Major Scale Guitar Chords, Chart Of Open Position Forms By Jay Skyler
If you wanted to you could only learn this shape and noodle around in this position forever but if you want to play A Major further up the neck then you’re going to have to play a different shape. Or rather, add another shape to this one. That’s where you use the middle shape in my chart. It overlaps with the other two, so you just tack it towards the end of shape number 1 and presto: you have extended your A major scale by 4 frets. To go even further, repeat with shape 3.TAB and notation has been provided along with movable scale patterns, allowing you to play all major scales – wherever you are on the fretboard.
The major scale is the ‘basic’ scale in music, and is usually the first scale a beginner student – of any instrument – will learn.
It’s easy to dismiss the major scale due to its ‘vanilla’ sound when it’s played on its own, but in actual fact many of the world’s best-known melodies are composed using the notes in a major scale. Guitarists in nearly all styles of music will regularly use major scales in their solos, riffs and licks.
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The major scale serves as a ‘foundation’ for music theory and for all other scales; it’s the scale other scales are compared to.
If you have a good knowledge of major scale patterns on the guitar fretboard then you’ll be able to play every modal scale.
On this page you’ll find major scale TAB, notation and patterns for playing major scales in every key all over the guitar fretboard…
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In other words, by learning a single major scale pattern (for example the basic pattern shown below), you’ll be able to play any major scale, be it a C major, D major, E major, etc. You simply move your fretting hand to the correct position on the guitar neck and play the notes as shown on the pattern.
* A ‘tonic note’ of a scale is the ‘name’ note, i.e. the ‘C’ notes in a C major scale, the ‘G’ notes in a G major scale, etc.)
The pattern below is the basic major scale pattern. TABs have been provided showing how this pattern can be used to play both a C and a G major scale. You could also move the scale to other frets in order to play other major scales.
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Scale diagrams often include notes that are either above or below the tonic notes in this way. This is because you’ll usually be using the scale while improvising, so knowing the extra notes available in that fretboard position can be useful.
If you just want to play the scale then start and stop on the green tonic notes, ignoring the extra notes outside of the green notes.
Play the pattern in seventh position (i.e. so your index finger is positioned over the 7th fret) for a 2-octave C major scale, as shown in the TAB below.
A Major Guitar Scale
(In this position your second (middle) finger will be positioned over the ‘C’ note at the 8th fret of the 6th (lowest) string, which is the first note in the scale.)
The diagram below shows the first major scale pattern together with four more patterns. We’ll take a closer look at each of the new patterns below.
The basic major scale pattern (pattern 1) can be extended up and down the guitar fretboard using the additional scale patterns. You’ll see how to join the patterns up in order to create longer lines further down the page.
Guitar Major Scales
A tab example has been provided for each of the new patterns. The tab shows how the pattern can be used to play either a 1 octave or a 2 octave C major scale. (Patterns 1 & 5 span 2 octaves, the others a single octave.)
Remember that the scale patterns may contain notes that extend the scale, either upwards or downwards. If you just want to play a single octave, play from a green note to the next green note, as shown in the tabs below.
Play this pattern in 9th position (i.e. position your hand so that the index finger is ready to play at the 9th fret), starting and stopping on the green notes, for a 1-octave C major scale:
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Play this pattern starting at the 3rd fret of the A string for a C major scale, as shown in the TAB below:
Playing this pattern starting in 5th position will result in a C major scale, as shown in the TAB below. (You’ll need to shift position (one fret lower) to play the notes on the G string):
Guitarists learn more than one scale pattern for each scale so that they can play the scale in different octaves and at different positions on the guitar neck.
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For example, if you only knew the basic major scale pattern (pattern 1) and were improvising over a chord progression in C, then you’d be limited to playing in 7th position (i.e. with your index finger positioned over the 7th fret.)
If you also knew major scale pattern no. 3, then you could also improvise using a C major scale in open position, or in 12th / 13th position. This would give you access to several more notes.
When playing with scales, you can extend your lines by linking together adjacent scale patterns. Below you’ll find a TAB example of this, with suggested fingerings.
Free Guitar Scales Chart For Beginners
Scale, which means it contains seven notes per octave. Most scales – especially those used in Western music – are heptatonic, but there are notable exceptions, such as the five note per octave pentatonic scales, which are widely used in rock and pop music.
The major scale is the scale against which all others are compared. Therefore its scale formula is: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
The major scale, when compared to other scales with a major tonality (such as the Phrygian scale, and the Mixolydian scale, has a somewhat ‘neutral’ tone.
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This makes it less ‘characterful’ but perhaps more versatile than other scales, because it can be used over a greater number of chord progressions. (Other scales may contain notes that sound ‘wrong’ over certain chords.)
For example, you could use a C major scale to solo over the following chord progression, because all of the chords in the progression are diatonic to C major.
Visit the following pages on Guitar Command to find out more about guitar scales and how to use them in your own playing:
Bass Scales Chart
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