Guitar Scale Lessons
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7 Major Scale Patterns ◊ Standard Tuning's Ultimate Map. These 7 scales can change your worldview. Once you figure out how these patterns work, you can decloak standard tuning in every key. The patterns follow a cycle of forms that link up to the CAGED chord forms & the Pentatonics. These patterns are built in C Major [all natural tones, yet can be applied to all 15 key centers.] Go |
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The C Major guitar scale in first position is considered a beginner's scale, and is a vital one to know. As with all scales, memorize it (so you can 'forget' it later). We suggest that first you play the scale in order from the root (C) to the highest tone in this pattern (G), then to the lowest (E), & back to the root (as shown in the tab...). Go |
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CAGED Scale Patterns ◊ Basic, Beginner In addition to the CAGED chord system, there are also CAGED Scale Forms (5 of 7 shown). Each of these is an 'open position' or 'open string' scale (a scale at the nut with open strings). Some of these scales are identical to the patterns you will find in our 7 Major scales system, and some are slightly modified to utilize the open strings where possible. Some shifting is used. Go |
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entatonic guitar scales are possibly the most popular & most used melodic maps on our planet. One way we learn them is using frames (grids, maps, charts). The following map of these scales is often the first complete scale system a student learns. It is a 'hollowed out' Major/minor scale system [it is 'missing' the 4 & 7 to the Major, & those same tones are the 2 & 6 to the minor]. Go |