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How To Read A Scale Diagram
Scale diagrams are like a snapshot of your guitar’s fretboard. This lesson will help you to learn to read scale diagrams for guitar. Scale diagrams are a great way to learn new scales.
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An Introduction To Intervals And Scales (Video)
This video will help you to understand what intervals and scales are.
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The Right Wrong Notes
Beyond The Box When playing music we can use scales as a guide which will tell us what notes will work best for a particular song. The pentatonic scale is a good example. The five notes in the pentatonic are all you need sometimes, but at some point may players want to be able to…
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E Harmonic Minor
The harmonic minor scale has a very distinct sound to it. If you’ve ever heard Yngwie Malmsteen then you’ve heard the scale in action, because it’s just about the only scale the Swedish guitar master plays. It the primary scale used in the Neo-Classical movement led by Malmsteen.
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Diatonic Scale Formulas
Here are the intervals that create the major scale and it’s modes.
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The Major Scale
The major scale contains 7 notes and is the basic building block of all western music. It’s one of the most important things to learn on the guitar. This lesson will show you how to play it through video and tab. Don’t miss it! Fig. 1: The Major Scale The tab below shows the major…
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How Do I Play Scales?
Scales are a collection of notes that go together. They can be practiced by playing one note at a time. They are not chords which are a group of notes played at one time. Scales can be played by going up the scale pattern and then down. This means we’ll start with the note lowest in…