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Check out this video from Berkleemusic.com and watch as Larry Bayone, Chair of Berklee’s Guitar Department, illustrates the proper technique to play scale forms on the neck of the guitar.
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@Canadianspunge I …
@Canadianspunge I suggest not to learn scale forms. It’s better to start off knowing how they are made and then when you know all the notes on the guitar it becomes quite easy.
Thanks…very …
Thanks…very helpful. Great looking/sounding Guild you are playing. I have a 1977 Guild Dreadnought that sounds better than most expensive acoustics produced today. Don’t hear much about them since they were bought by Fender.
@halcyon321 Depends …
@halcyon321 Depends what you want to do. Totally unnecessary in today’s music business. But if you want to be respected by other guitarists, it’s better to really know your stuff. If you only know the scale in one position, you don’t know the scale, you know one shape and you are confined to that box.
so say you have the …
so say you have the C major scale…it starts and ends with C. the scale is C D E F G A B c.
the second mode of the scale goes D E F G A B C d
it isn’t a D major scale, because a D major scale is
D E F# G A B C# d
the 6th note in the major scale is the relative minor scale, so the relative minor to C major is A. and you would play it accordingly – A B C D E F G a
whole step, half step, whole step, whole step, half step, whole step, whole step.
hope this helps.
nope, I’d call it …
nope, I’d call it open position, and always do with my students because it uses the open strings. A 1st position scale would be for example, F major starting on the 1st finger and reaching for the G and the A with the 3rd and 4th fingers respectively.
or it could also be the Db major scale starting on F, which would, I believe be Berklee’s fingering number 3.
I have big issues with Berklees pedagogy in general but this is just to challenge the idea that open position could be called 1st pos.
Dorian mode is the …
Dorian mode is the Major scale starting on the second degree(note)of the scale.
Mode comes from …
Mode comes from Greek meaning mood. Each mode has a intervallic formula & thus gives a different mood/feeling.
Is that Django …
Is that Django Reinhardt on the wall behind Larry??
Yes! I see the right hand. Its the Master.
What does it mean …
What does it mean when i play and scales and modes, What is modes.??
Dorian mode Ex.??
yes of course, in …
yes of course, in thata way yo will play solos easily
would you recommend …
would you recommend i learn how to play scales in all sorts of places on the guitar? any more i should know? i have the all major ones down… at least the regular ones that you would find on the internet not like the way he’s doing playing the c-scale on the second string etc… somet one tells me play the scale of c, i am immediately going to the 8th fret… are blues, minor etc scales neccessary?
should of done that …
should of done that a long time ago
Learning Scales, …
Learning Scales, Chords and Modes and Inversions mainly allow you to be able to improvise. Not to mention that they teach you how to compose.
You would benefit. …
You would benefit. Everyone would benefit.
yes because it …
yes because it would help you play your own stuff and understand how the music is composed..
When you learn …
When you learn scales, you learn how to play in key, so if you plan to solo and compose music, it’s absolutely necessary. If you just play random notes when the other instruments are playing in another key, it’ll sound like crap. You should at LEAST know the seven modes of the major scale and how to find them on guitar. Eventually it’s really easy because you remember their patterns and when you find the key for a song you know exactly where to put your fingers. It’s like a map.
Re: …
Re: luciferwinterbottom
Do you improvise?
He’s playing a guitar associated with Jazz, and theres a painting of possibly Django Reinhardt (jazz) in the background; Improvisation is frequent in jazz, and learning scales can be very beneficial to that.
You can also then learn the sound/feel of a scale, and so know what scales parts of songs are on when you listen to them, allowing you to almost instantly play a song you’ve never looked at the tab for (assuming you work on general fingering)
yea it would …
yea it would because then you can make your own songs and solos
are these …
are these absolutely necessary?ive been playing guitar for 5 years and can play most songs if i work on them. should i get lessons to learn all these scales?would it benefit?
It’s cool that you …
It’s cool that you put this on here but, for beginning guitar players sometimes it is helpful to point to the spot being played (as an obvious reference) because it is not always easy to tell from our vantage point what fingers are being used and when because the other fingers get in the way or are very close to the strings too etc. Thanks again for providing this lesson.
Nice video. thanks
Nice video. thanks
gr8 lesson, i used …
gr8 lesson, i used the CAGED system myself when i was learning scale shapes.
Improvise on the …
Improvise on the changes of a song and you will quickly realize how important scale knowledge is. Start with basic triad changes – basic changes tell you what notes and passing notes you can use to create. Then and only then start playing “outside” the scale.
It is hard …
It is hard understanding true genius,believe it or not some people actually have great ideas and never learn theory or scales or harmony,not me but i’ve been fortunate enough to meet some of these freaks! Typically these people do have ears and a brain! It is very hard for those of us who need to work hard and long to get it. In the end theory is just a way to pass Ideas between each other. modern model of musical temperment is artificial look it up. Technique is simply tradition of mechanics
if it sounds “right …
if it sounds “right”…its probably a scale…even if you don’t know it.