Before we finish up this tutorial, let's play a little open position melody.
Congrats on learning the whole open position pattern of the major scale. I'm sure it wasn't easy, but I hope you trust that I wouldn't show you this pattern if it weren't super useful. You can do so many cool things with this pattern and already in the next tutorial we'll begin blending these melody notes with our open chords, and that's where it really starts to sound like you know what you're doing. But before you can wrap your brain and your fingers around that, it's extremely helpful to take the time to really get this scale under your fingers like we did in these lessons. Have fun with it!
Great tutorial as allways!
Question: ibe read somewhere, that when practising scales, its recommended (important) to start and end the scale on the root note of the scale. And since this is the C major scale, Shouldnt we start (and end) the scale on de C note?
i guess on the 5th string, 3rd fret?
Mike Olekshy4 months ago
Hello - thanks so much for your question! Yes you are correct - typically we'd want you to practice your scales by starting and ending on the root note, so that you can train your ear to the sound of the scale more effectively. However, in this lesson, Anders is introducing the C major scale as simply as possible, and by playing the full C chord at the end of each melody, we still get the benefits of hearing the relation of the single notes to the chord.