A major scale is simply seven notes, that's what it is. That's all it is, seven notes. The guitar however has some problems that we have to deal with basically. One example is this. This note, this first string E note appears in five different places. One, two, three, four, five, and if I have 24 frets, it would be in six places, okay? This D note here also appears all over the place, one, two, three, four, five different places.
So when we try to play these scales, we are going to run into the fact that there is a lot of different ways to play each of these scales, and we have to know most of them or all of them to successfully use our guitar, our whole guitar. All of this is available to you and there is the simple mechanism of dots and of grids that I use and that will show you how to negotiate the length of your guitar while maintaining the correct harmony, the correct scale.
If I play this here, going to be the same here. It only changes pitch but the shape of fingers that I am using is identical, two, four, one, two, four, one, three, four. I am counting my fingers. Again, here two, four, one, two, four, one, three, four.
What we have to account for is this, the guitar is long. So if you want to successfully stay in one key throughout your guitar from here to here, you have to learn five shapes to begin with, okay? And we will do them in the key of G because that's the -- it's got a nice low base note, but not too low and it doesn't end too high either it ends right there.
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