Five Major Scale Patterns
Tutorial Part 2
So in this second segment, we will be looking at some more of our forms for C major and like I said before, you may spend your whole first day of warming up just learning that position and getting it under your fingers. Then the next day, you can reinforce that first position, make sure you still got it memorized and then add the second the second position and you continue in that same fashion.
The third day, you review the first and second position and then add the third and as you get faster and faster at it, all five will become part of our warm up or you can play out through all five, fast enough or you can do it in a minute and then you can do some other applications using that same scale.
So let's look at the second position, this one will start on the eight fret of the sixth string, will look like this. So that's the eight fret. Sixth string and then the fifth fret, seventh fret and eight fret on the fifth string. The fifth fret and seventh fret of the fourth string and then on the third string, we are going to shift down one fret, so now we have got the fourth, fifth and seventh frets of the third string, then we will shift up one fret and have the fifth, sixth and eight frets of the second string and then fifth, seventh and eight of the first string.
So we want to play up and down that form and then there is couple of lower notes, we can get down on the sixth string. We can also get the seventh fret and the fifth fret of the sixth string. So we play all the way through that up and down. You want to do that several times, so we have got that position down.
Well now the third position that we have also starts on the eight fret of the sixth string, but you will start this one with the second finger. So this position look like this. And I should mention, there is a few variations of these positions, so you may see some other different things in books or with instructors or may take lessons from there is one that looks like this.
So there is just all kinds of possibilities on the guitar and different combinations, but these are just suggestions of ones that are easy to use and very common. So this one, we have got the eight fret and tenth fret on the sixth string. We have got the seventh fret, eight fret and tenth fret on the fifth string. The seventh fret, ninth fret and tenth fret on the fourth string. Seventh, ninth and tenth on the third string. Eight and tenth on the second and then seventh, eight and tenth on the first string.
Then we can add seventh on that sixth string as well. So it will look like this. And that's the third position and we will cover rest in our next segment.
The interim starts on the lower string and it goes like this. So then it's the B, A and C I keep these string ringing on the G throughout the whole thing.
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