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Guitar tablature is another form of written music specifically designed for guitarists. Rather than having five lines as in traditional music notation, tablature has six lines – one for each string of the guitar. We then place a numeral on the line of the appropriate string, which tells us the fret number on that string to be played: Listen: This … Read More
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This website will look at two aspects of music in detail – Melody and Harmony. The third aspect of music, Rhythm, is touched on briefly in parts, but does not have a section dedicated to it on this site. Melody is concerned with the way single notes sound in succession. Harmony is concerned with the way groups of notes sound when played together. Melody can be … Read More
When we play a run of single notes in succession, we are producing a Melody, or melodic line. Depending on the order of the notes, and what notes we play, we can make a melody sound happy (major), sad (minor), strong, emotional, cheerful etc. A pattern of notes played at set intervals apart is referred to as a Scale. There are many … Read More
As an example, lets look at the A major scale. As the name suggests, the scale starts on the note ‘A’, and contains the following 7 notes: ‘A’ is referred to as the root note, and we arrive back at A (the octave) after the 7th note (G#), an octave higher. If we refer to our Chromatic Scale (immediately below), we can see the Step Pattern that … Read More
Here we will look at how to play the major scale on the guitar. We will use the C major scale as the first example, since it contains no sharps or flats: Listen: Since it is not entirely functional to play a scale on a single string, we can find the notes of this scale across all strings on the guitar. If … Read More
More generally, we can play a major scale on guitar for any key by using the following movable patterns, which are to be memorized. The numbers in the circles below refer to which finger you should use to hold down the string: 1=index 2=middle 3=ring 4=little finger/pinky Make sure you use the right fingering. FINGERING FOR ROOT NOTE ON 5TH STRING: This pattern … Read More
G MAJOR SCALE IN THIRDS (ASCENDING) Also try this descending. Listen: G MAJOR SCALE IN FOURTHS (ASCENDING) Also try this descending. Listen: G MAJOR SCALE IN FIFTHS (ASCENDING) Also try this descending. Listen: ‘YANKEE DOODLE’ USING THE G MAJOR SCALE Listen:
There are three different types of minor scales: a) Natural Minor Scaleb) Melodic Minor Scalec) Harmonic Minor Scale All three minor scales differ from the major scale by having a flattened third note. This is referred to as a minor third. This gives it its sad, minor sound. Let’s look at the natural minor scale first. A) NATURAL MINOR SCALE The Step Pattern is as follows: 1st to … Read More
