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Learning to understand what the Major Scale is all about will open up exciting new doors to you as a guitar player! The Major Scale is a common language amongst all instruments, not just the guitar. In this tutorial, we'll learn what makes the Major Scale 'tick', and why.

Christopher will show you all five major pentatonic boxes, how they form an interconnecting pattern across the entire guitar fretboard and how to systematically practice them. You will use each pentatonic box to play 2 types of scale exercises, at two different tempos along with backing tracks.

In this set of lessons, we'll learn a pattern of notes to play that will allow you to easily play the major scale, in any key you want. This streamlined system makes playing major scales super easy, and is the gateway to playing melody, riffs, and improvisations up the neck of the guitar.

Major scales that relate to the major chords you already know are an important building block for making your playing more interesting and fun. Use the notes of these scales to work towards playing melody, riffs, and improvisations, right in the context of a song with chords. Expand your sound, big-time!

In this tutorial, we'll have some fun with some challenging practice exercises for the minor scale. Get ready to put your minor scale chops to work, with these very musical scale practice exercises. Who said practicing scales should be boring?

The 'Grid-Style' minor scale allows us to play any minor scale that exists, using a consistent and moveable pattern. Learn this grid, and you can instantly play ANY minor scale that exists, just by placing the grid at different points on the neck of the guitar.

In this tutorial, we'll begin to make the connection between playing an open minor scale, top to bottom, and, using the notes within that scale to create melody and solos. In other words, now that you've learned some scales, let's make some music!

In true Speedster tutorial fashion, we will look at six very useful ways of using a mixed scale as a basis for fast playing. There will also be a bit of funky/jazzy playing as well as an electric bluegrass lick at the end.

Now that you've mastered the G, C, D, Am, and Em, and learned to play several songs, let's expand out your collection of major and minor chords. This will open so many exciting new doors for you and your guitar playing!

Welcome to the world of 'full' chords, using all 6 strings of the guitar. We'll start by learning the E Minor and the D Major chord, plus a couple of fun songs to play along with Lisa and the band. Have fun learning to play 'Funky Holiday', and 'Do Something For You,!

In this tutorial we'll learn the open position of the C major scale. On top of giving us a fun and bluegrass sound, this open position major scale will also, ultimately enable you to switch seamlessly between the melody notes in our scale pattern and our classic open chords. This is the key ingredient in playing melodies and chords at the same time.

In this tutorial we'll explore the C major scale you already know, but from a whole different angle. Now we'll play it horizontally on one string. This opens up our understanding of the fretboard to see how to construct a major scale with the major scale formula.

In the previous tutorial we explored how our major scale pattern ended with the same note we started on. In this tutorial we'll extend the scale to play it beyond one octave. Among many other melodies, this will give us access to the classic melody 'Happy Birthday To You'.

In this tutorial you will learn to expand the major scale patterns to visualize and play the major scale in multiple octaves across all 6 strings. We will start with the A major scale as an example and eventually play the major scale in all 12 keys.

Christopher will show you how the major scale is harmonized by building the notes of the scale into chords and their relative functions.

Are you ready for another pair of SImple Chords? Once again, these chords use only 3 strings. We will practice their tone, and switching from one to the other in rhythm. Then we'll put all that to work and learn to play the song, 'I Believed You'.

Christopher will show you how to expand on building speed at playing linear single note melodic lines. We will use the E major scale on two adjacent strings covering a complete octave in three note per string groupings.

In this tutorial we will combine the C Major scale in two different positions with the proper picking techniques learned in the previous tutorial: <i>downstrokes, upstrokes, </i> and <i>alternate picking</i>. We will apply all three picking techniques to the C Major scale, and achieve a basic system of practicing scales for beginner guitarists.

As just an added bonus to our already strong Lead Guitar Elements section, we are going to conclude this tutorial by looking at the use of intervals in the major and minor scales. We have taken an in depth look at many different ways to explore each of these scales. An important factor to realize is that within each scale resides a series of intervals that can be played together within a rock guitar solo. Each interval has a completely different sound and while some may sound harmonic and pleasing, others may resonate at odd frequencies and sound dissonant. Our focus in this chapter are the more melodic intervals in the major scale; those being thirds, fourths, fifths, and sixths. Our goal today is to give an introduction to the sound of these intervals and give you some unique examples in the styles of artists you know to get you started with this concept. We are going to demonstrate how to play the intervals in each example using scale patterns we learned in previous chapters.

The Major Scale is the foundation for nearly all of what we know as Western Harmony. It's construction allows us to understand how nearly all rock music goes together, and our understanding of it's workings is an essential part of everyone's musical education. The construction of the major scale follows the same formula every time. Focusing on it's use in a rock guitar context, we are going to look at a few different ways to play this scale. We are than going to take each of these different approaches and play them in the styles of some rock guitarists that you already know. Our understanding of how to play this scale in these different ways sets a strong foundation for us to expand on this never ending concept. Make sure before practicing any of these examples that you refresh your knowledge of the notes on the guitar neck, as this is crucial to moving through this chapter effectively.

While the notes in a major scale sound great when played in a specific way, there are certain notes that have to be carefully placed to work within the harmony. The Major Pentatonic Scale works to remedy this situation by eliminating two of the notes from the major, enabling every note to sound harmonically "in the right place." While stylistically this may or may not sound particularly innovative, the fact remains that these 5 notes sit almost perfectly inside their major key and create a foundation to work from when exploring rock soloing. "Penta" meaning five, and "tonic," meaning note; come together to name this scale. Here is a breakdown of the scale stemming from our previous graph.

In this tutorial you will learn to visualize and play the major scale in the multiple patterns and positions it forms on the guitar fretboard. We will start with the A major scale as an example and eventually play the major scale in all 12 keys. Backing track play alongs are included for practice.

Christopher will show you the seven modes of the major scale. He'll show you each mode, how to play it, why it is unique, how it fits into the overall pattern of modes. There will also be play alongs and backing tracks to get a lot of practice at using all the modes.

This tutorial explains the concept (theory) of the C Major Scale and how to apply it (practice) to the guitar. This tutorial is primarily written for beginners. But even experienced players might benefit from this quick, concise review of what constitues a scale.

Big concepts are coming together and paying off here, as we learn how the 'Magic L' will tell you exactly what major or minor chords to play for most any song, with ease and predictability! This is powerful stuff for jamming, songwriting, and playing tons of great music.

In this tutorial we will look at six very useful ways of playing the pentatonic scale fast. We will limit ourselves to using ONLY the standard pentatonic scale so that we're forced to stay within the patterns and fingerings that the pentatonic scale offers.

The key of E is the last key we will explore in this section. Once again, we'll determine the major and the minor chords, talk about chord-change strategies, and learn a new song in the the key of E called 'Three Long Days'.

The key of A shows up quite commonly in contemporary music, and is a good one to have under your belt. We'll determine the major and the minor chords, talk about chord-change strategies, and learn to play a new song in the the key of A called 'Shiny Objects'.

The key of D is another very common key in popular music. Some of the minor chords aren't quite as friendly as in the previous keys we have studied, but don't worry - where there is a will, there is a way. Let's determine the major and the minor chords, talk about chord-change strategies, and learn a new song in the the key of D called 'What Love Can Do'.

With millions of songs in the key of G, you'll get a ton of mileage out of mastering this key. We'll determine the major and the minor chords, talk about chord-change strategies, and learn a new song in the the key of G called 'Darling Destination'.

Bread & butter means the central or fundamental part of a thing. It also means how you earning a living; how you earn you bread to pay for your bread & butter! In this tutorial we'll learn another, more advanced major pentatonic lick that you've heard many times.

In this tutorial we'll learn some basic elements of jazz lead guitar. We'll play some lines that demonstrate jazz vocabulary over a common major key chord progression. One of the central elements of jazz guitar soloing is playing the changes. This means targeting certain notes within a scale that outline each chord in the progression. When playing the changes, you can emphasize chord tones and then embellish by using other scalar and chromatic notes.

In this chapter we'll be exploring the exciting topic of melodies. This is where our guitar steps out of the supporting role and becomes the center of attention. If you took the time, you could most likely use your ears and eventually be able to find where the notes are to play a certain melody - but you would quickly realize that it's a lot of work to search around blindly on the neck like that. So in this lesson we'll get around that by learning what's called a major scale, and then you'll be able to find so many melodies within that scale.