Many musicians tend to argue on the importance of properly learning music theory and scales. Some will tell you that it’s unnecessary, and that you should learn with your ears.
Taking the time to improve our technique and our knowledge is vital to becoming a better guitarist – and who doesn’t love getting better at things?
By organizing our twelve-note octave into smaller groups of notes, we are able to not only create amazing-sounding melodies, but corresponding chords as well.
Free Printable Guitar Scales
An understanding of scales and how they function on guitar can help us gain a deeper understanding of music as a whole.
One of the most popular ways to learn how to play scales on guitar is through the use of a guitar scales chart like the one below.
It’s also important to note that your fingers are most often numbered when reading a guitar scales chart. In the examples we use in this article, your fingers will be numbered as follows:
A Major Guitar Scale
Pro Tip: Be sure to look out for spots in each scale shape where you may have to switch hand positions! This is a good skill to develop early on in your practice routine to help you navigate the fretboard easier.
Ah yes, the happiest and the mother of all musical scales. The major scale gives us a wonderful foundation to use for learning other scales.
Everytime we discuss the major scale, we have to drop this video because it helps us gain a better understanding of this scale and how it functions. Click the link, then keep reading.
Diatonic Arpeggios And Scale Shapes For Guitar
Pro Tip: Begin this scale with your middle finger at any fret and us the fretboard chart in the section above to figure out what scale you are playing.
We’re going to play along to this scale in the key of G major at the 3rd fret as an example, so let’s have a look at what this scale looks like in tablature:
Pro Tip: We can also assign the same numeric structure to the notes of the minor scale itself, without using the major scale. That would look like this:
Major Guitar Scale Shapes
You’re going to want to stretch your pinky finger for this one, as you’ll be making good use of it. Make sure once again to lead with your middle finger so that your index can lead on the A string above.
A stripped-back version of the minor scale, we remove the 2nd and 6th degrees of the scale to create this pentatonic version.
Much like the major pentatonic scale, the sound of the minor pentatonic scale makes it appealing for many guitarists who want to write hard-hitting and straightforward guitar licks.
Guitar Scales Chart For Major/minor, Pentatonic And Blues Scales
Pro Tip: The guitar scales chart for the minor pentatonic scale is outlined below in two octaves like all of the ones above.
To make it easy, we’re going to keep to the relative minor routine that we’ve established and look at this guitar scales chart in E minor.
Make use of those open strings as well as your index and middle fingers. If you’re opting to play this scale in a different key, you’re going to want to lead with your index finger, followed by your pinky.
Guitar Scales Printable Charts Of The Most Commonly Used Scales
Skill Tip: If you combine the G major scale shapes that you’ve learned already with the E minor shapes we have below, you get one bigger shape to play through.
Recommended resource: How To Play Lead Guitar This is one of the most popular guides on the whole site, you’ll love it! Guitar Scales Chart: The Minor Blues Scale
This scale has a bluesy flair to it, but it can be put to use in everything from Rock and Metal to Funk and Country.
Major Scale Charts
Try experimenting with it in different keys to get a feel for the sound of the scale and how it is different from the minor and major pentatonic scales.
Pro Tip: This scale can be used alongside the major and minor pentatonic scales when soloing to create unique sounds. Keep the rule of relative major in mind and connect this scale with the other scales you’ve learned in different keys.
Look for unique two and three-note chords that you can play inside each scale shape, and you will help develop your ear and your hands.
How To Play C Major
Learn how everything fits together quickly, easily and effectively. We share ninja tips (for instant fun!) but also timeless fundamentals that will deepen your understanding.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.
Minor Scales For Guitar
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.
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