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LisaMcC
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LisaMcC
Guitar Tricks Instructor
Joined: 11/02/06
Posts: 4,068
02/11/2009 9:07 pm
Hi Th3,

Newbie questions are always welcome!

I hope I am interpreting your question correctly - and if so, I'm afraid the answer is complicated by some facts of music theory.

You asked about the "scale order". There are many scales, not just one, so the scale order depends on which scale you are trying to play.

If you want to hear the notes of a "major scale" and you have been working on learning the notes, try starting a scale on the note "C", and go alphabetically up the musical alphabet from there. (C,D,E,F,G,A,B,C)

If you were to start a major scale on any note other than C, you would have to incorporate sharps or flats to make the major scale work.

When it comes to the order of the CHORDS in a particular scale, that's another thing too. Now you get into Major and Minor chords, and more.

If we went back to the C major example and you were to play all the chords in the key of C major, you would play a C major chord, D minor, E minor, F major, G major, A minor, B diminished.

Have you tried the Guitar Tricks Fundamentals Course? That might be a good place to go to help get these concepts sorted out.

Keep us posted - Lisa
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