Understanding essential guitar scales for beginners Are you new to scales? Or new to guitar as a whole? Well I’m happy to see you here, where you’re going to level up your scale game! You’re going to look at 5 essential guitar scales for beginners. These scales will give you a better understanding of notes […]
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Understanding 7th Chords in The C Major Scale The diatonic seventh chords of C Major can be found by stacking each degree of the scale in 3rds. Here are the notes in the C Major Scale: C-D-E-F-G-A-B Stacking each note in 3rds, we get these chords: C Major- D Minor – E Minor – F
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In this free guitar lesson you’ll look at A major pentatonic scale guitar tabs, notation, and a fretboard diagram. A Major Pentatonic Scale Position 1 A Major Pentatonic Scale Position 2 A Major Pentatonic Scale Position 3 A Major Pentatonic Scale Position 4 A Major Pentatonic Scale Position 5 A Major Pentatonic Scale Guitar Fretboard
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Understanding the Major Scale Formula Understanding the major scale formula boils down to knowing the degrees and steps that make up a major scale. What are the 7 notes of a major scale? The 7 notes/scale degrees of a major scale are: 1-2-3-4-5-6-7 Each of these degrees represents a distance from the root note. These
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E Minor Pentatonic is one of the most common guitar scales and is used in thousands of popular songs. Hop in and you’ll learn the positions and theory for this awesome scale. Understanding the E Minor Pentatonic Scale The 5 E Minor Pentatonic Scale Notes The 5 notes in the E Minor Pentatonic scale are:
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Today you’ll look at a simple guide to playing C Minor Pentatonic on the guitar. To better understand pentatonic scales as a whole, check out this post. Understanding the C Minor Pentatonic Scale The 5 C Minor Pentatonic Scale Notes The 5 notes in the C Minor Pentatonic Scale are: C-Eb-F-G-Bb What is the relative
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What is the Dorian Guitar Mode/Scale? The Dorian guitar mode/scale is the second mode out of the seven diatonic modes. It’s a minor mode because of its minor 3rd (b3) and minor 7th (b7) intervals. Understanding the Dorian Guitar Mode What is the formula for a Dorian scale The formula for Dorian is: 1-2-b3-4-5-6-b7 You
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One of the first and easiest scales every guitarist needs to learn is the pentatonic scale. Learning these shapes will open up the guitar fretboard, and make it easier for you to improvise and compose. Sit back and bust out your guitar as you learn the 5 pentatonic scale shapes for guitar and the theory
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Learning pentatonic scales can be confusing when you start to see words thrown around like “major” and “minor” all the time. So, let’s get rid of your confusion. There are two ways to explain the difference between major and minor pentatonic scales. 1. Derivative Pentatonic Theory Derivative pentatonic theory is where we take a group
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The CAGED system is a common way to view and understand scales on guitar. It uses the open chord shapes that you likely learned as a beginner, and uses them for visualization. There are 5 Major Scale CAGED shapes, and here they are. Major Scale CAGED shapes using C Major You’ll use the C major
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