Episode 05 How to Learn Major Scale Patterns and Play Major Scale Songs
Guitar Music Theory
Desi Serna
4.6 • 931 Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2017
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
This lesson teaches how guitar players learn major scale patterns on the fretboard and how these patterns are used to play melodies, riffs, lead guitar solos, and bass lines. Taught by Desi Serna of http://GuitarMusicTheory.com.
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| 0:00.0 | You're going to. Oh, Welcome to the guitar music theory |
| 0:29.0 | podcast. I'm Desi Cerna, author of Frontboard Theory, Guitar Theory for Dummies, and more. |
| 0:37.0 | This podcast features free guitar lessons that focus on music theory for guitar, including guitar scales, chords, |
| 0:44.2 | progressions, modes, composition techniques, |
| 0:47.3 | improvisation, and more. |
| 0:49.6 | The lessons are geared toward intermediate level players on up. |
| 0:53.0 | You can follow along on either an acoustic or electric guitar. |
| 0:57.0 | Bass players can take away a lot from the lessons too. Today's podcast episode is a previous recording in which you learn about major scale patterns and how they're used to play guitar riffs, solos, and baselines. |
| 1:16.3 | This lesson is based on my book Frontboard Theory Chapter 5. Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, baby, it's a wild world. |
| 1:45.0 | It's hard to get by just a part of the smile. my Oh, Hey The Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, |
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| 2:36.0 | oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Oh, yeah. I'm going to do you know |
| 2:54.0 | and do you know and you're The Oh my Oh no and I mean we never lost control. Oh, Hi, this is Desi Cerna. In this free guitar lesson, you're going to learn about playing |
| 4:09.8 | major scales on the |
| 4:22.0 | You're going to learn about how to learn the major scales, how to practice, and how to apply the major scales to popular music. To begin with, a scale is a series of notes played in order one at a time |
| 4:28.0 | ascending or descending. Scales make patterns on the fretboard which guitar players have to learn, memorize, and practice playing. |
| 4:51.0 | There are two basic types of scales that guitar players use most of the time, and they are the pentatonic scale and then major scale. |
| 5:01.0 | Or I should say there are two types of scale patterns that guitar |
| 5:05.5 | players are likely to use in play. Penatonic scale patterns or major scale |
| 5:10.2 | patterns. I recommend that guitar players learn the pentatonic scale first and I |
| 5:16.2 | do have a podcast episode dedicated to learning the pentatonic scale. The pentitonic scale patterns are easier to learn, easier to play, and generally |
| 5:28.4 | speaking there's a lot of very easy songs to learn with the pentatonic scale. The major scale has more notes, |
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