How to Play Blues Guitar: Moveable Scales

I am going to show you a C major scale. Now, this scale can be effective in a lot of different ways, okay; but this is something that it should be practiced everyday because this is just a great technique to build up. I am going to start in the key of C, using that C note on the 5th string 3rd fret and we are going to play (guitar playing), go to the 4th string (guitar playing) and here we are going to make out position shift from the 2nd position to the 5th position (guitar playing), next string (guitar continuous playing). Let me play that for you one more time slowly (guitar playing) and make your position shift (guitar continuous playing); and I am going to play that all at one scale (guitar playing); and the reverse, exact same way (guitar playing). Make your position shift in that same spot (guitar playing). Once again, descending (guitar playing), and finally ascending and descending (guitar playing), okay. Now remember like the other scales I showed you, this is a movable scale. The root note or your key note is based of the 5th string this time (guitar playing), so if we play the pattern there (guitar playing) that is C major. But, if for some reason you wanted to play a D major, find D on your 5th string which is at the 5th fret play the same pattern, finger pattern (guitar playing). A would be self-starting on the 7th fret (guitar playing), okay you can move that around. That is the movable root five major scale pattern.

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