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Hey! This is Nate Savage with guitarlessons.com. We’re going to talk about understanding the major scale and we’re going to use a G major scale, turn on G on the 3rd fret of our low E-string. If you know the shape, great; if not, I’ll show it to you really quickly.
[Demonstration]
Okay that was just the regular G major scale and you need another formula for major scale if you’re going to build one. Though, the formula for your major scale is two whole steps and a half step, then three whole steps and a half step. And the shape automatically conforms to our formula to a whole and a half, three whole and a half.
So if you’re starting with G, that’s one, go a whole step, it’s an A, another whole step, B; a half step would be C, but instead of playing it a half step away from B on the same string, we’re going to come and get the C right here. So now we need three more whole steps. One more, then a half step. So being able to build a major scale and understanding how its build is critical to learning how to build chords and learning how to alter scale or something like that to make minor scales and what not. So understand the Major scale and practice it, and build as many scales as you can and as many keys as you can.
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