Hey Friend,
Can you believe it’s the end of October already? There’s a nip in the air, and for Central Florida, that’s sayin’ something!
Now that we’ve learned the names of each interval in the major scale, I wanted to point something out you might not have thought of.
Each major scale has seven notes, and when you play these notes in succession, they form the scale. You start on the tonic and move up, note by note, until you reach the perfect octave.
That’s really easy if you’re only playing on one string, but what happens when you start playing across all six? Or perhaps somewhere up the neck?
It can get downright confusing if you don’t have a way to remember where the notes will be on the fingerboard.
But there is a way you can find them pretty easily, and it comes down to learning another of my favorite things…
Can you guess what that is?
That’s right, a pattern!
As I’ve said before, almost anything you can do on guitar can be traced back to a pattern. In fact, nearly everything music related is pattern-based.
The major scale has a pattern of intervals (W W H W W W H), and scales in different positions on the guitar neck have fingering patterns you can memorize to help you play them accurately and quickly.
We’re going to start exploring these so you begin learning where notes are on the neck and how you can find them easily. Before you know it, you’ll be able to play a melody in any position on the fingerboard!
I gotta get moving - back to the daily grind, but I’ll talk to you tomorrow. See you then.
Peace~
Dave
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