Major Scales on guitar

Major Scales on guitar

MAJOR SCALES are the building blocks for all of the music. Major scales are built on a specific pattern of half-step and whole-step intervals. The pattern for a major scale is Whole-step, Whole-step, Half-step, Whole-step, Whole-step, Whole-step, Half-step. Starting on any note, if you follow this pattern you will build a major scale in the note’s key.

Example. C major scale will be: C D E F G A B C, How to generate a major scale see the image below:

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C major scale

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1 thought on “Major Scales on guitar”

  1. Aniruddha Biswas

    Wow you are probably the 1st Indian guy running a guitar related website. I guess everything (programming, writing tabs etc) is done by you. If so then congratulations cause there isn’t any other country guitar websites maintained by a single person. Previously I asked you to write time signatures in tabs thinking you are just an user contributing tabs. Now I know how impossibly difficult that task it. The number tabs drawn by you are overwhelming.
    Now here’s an advice – Don’t say the term “Major Scales” cause “Major Scale” is just a single scale. A, B, C etc are just keys. So your titles should be “Major Scale in guitar”, “Major scale in all keys” etc. Every Indian guitar instructor is making this mistake. At least you used the word key. I heard guitar instructors saying there are 12 scales in guitar. C Maj, C# Maj, D Maj etc. But this is entirely wrong cause C, C#, D etc are just keys. There are huge number of scakes. The main 3 scales are Major Scale, Harmonic Minor Scale, Melodic Minor Scake. We can derive 7 scales (also called modes) from each of these scales since they are 7 note scales. There are many many more scales like Byzantine Scale, Neapolitan Major Scale, Neapolitan Minor Scale, Bebop Scale, Kumoi Scale, Hirojoshi Scale etc. I don’t know how many scales exist.

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