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Lesson 9: Scales Music is built completely around scales. If a song sounds foreign, or sad, it's because it's based on a scale common to that musical theme or genre. Scales are sets of notes that sound good together, the scale a piece of music is based on is shown in the key signature. All musical scales are based on intervals. An interval is the space between two notes in a scale. One a guitar each fret is worth half a tone. This means if you have found an F note, and go one fret above it, you'll be playing an F#. The half tones go like this:
You'll notice B & C, and E & F, have no half tone between them. Those notes simply don't exist. Now to further explain an interval, there are lots of different intervals, for example, a Major 2nd interval moves two full tones, or steps. More on this later. Now, how do we find a scale? Lets start with a the Major scale. The pattern of intervals for a Major scale can help you create any major scale instantly once you have memorized it. Memorize this:
With this formula you can create any major scale you want. Pick a root note. Say you chose an A by just playing the fifth string open. Now, play up one whole step (second fret), up another full step (fourth fret) and continue the pattern. Here is the tab and music notation for the scale you just played.
Pick any other note and practice this pattern. It's easy to do once you get the hang of it. Another common scale is the minor scale, this scale gives a sad, mournful feel to it. The basis of the scale is simple. The notes are simply, starting with any note you'd like, A B C D E F G. So in the same format as before, it's
We'll go more in-depth into scales later, for now practise making these scales, and focus on listening to them while you play them. Also, by picking notes and playing with these scales you can make some of your first attempts at soloing! < Previous | NiceaXe.com | Lesson Ten >
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