From the course: Rock Guitar Lessons: Teach Yourself to Play
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The major scale
From the course: Rock Guitar Lessons: Teach Yourself to Play
The major scale
- Many of the songs that we've already played, use notes that live in a family called a Major Scale. And a major scale is very important, it's a collection of notes in a specific linear order. It's actually eight notes, and the eighth note is very important, because that's the octave. So, for instance a C Major Scale goes C, D, E, F, G, A, B, and then the eighth note is C again, one octave higher in the next register. And that scale is built up, it has a very specific formula that's built of whole steps and half steps. A whole step is a distance of two frets on the guitar. So that's a whole step or, this is a whole step again. And half steps, and half steps of course, are just one fret. So a whole step is two frets, a half step is one fret. Now, the Major Scale is built like this. Whole step, whole step, half step, whole step, whole step, whole step, half step. And we're gonna learn the C Major Scale in position, and it's played like this. Whole step, whole step, half step, whole…
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