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6: The Coolest Way to Play The Major Scale on Guitar · The Guitarjet Podcast

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  Welcome to the guitar Jet Podcast, where you'll skyrocket your knowledge of theory,
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  techniques and fundamentals for guitar. Hello, and welcome back to the guitar Jet
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  Podcast. I'm your host Miles and today we're going to be talking about the
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  coolest way to play the major scaling guitar. This is gonna be a quick
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  lesson and it's accompanied by a free post on my Patreon page. Just go
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  to patreon dot com slash guitar Jet and like I say, if to join
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  and become a free member to get access to the free pdf. Tap And
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  on top of that, the YouTube video this Thursday on the guitar Jet YouTube
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  channel is going to cover the same thing, so you'll be able to learn
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  more there, and please remember to subscribe to the podcast and leave us a
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  review. And let's dive right into it. So the first way that the
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  first cool way to play the major scaling guitar is with two dots per string.
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  So traditionally a lot of major scale shapes are caged and they'll be like
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  they'll vary between two notes and three notes on each string so that you can
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  stay in a single position. Now, the cool thing about playing two notes
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  per string major scales is the fact that you move horizontally and so it covers
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  a wide portion of the front board, and so that's what makes it cool.
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  It looks cool, and it's easy to execute, and it sounds awesome,
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  all right. The second coolest way to play the major scale on guitar
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  is three notes per string. So three notes per string major scales are used
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  by a lot of incredible guitar players, including Paul Gilbert and Rick Graham.
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  Lots of incredible players use the three notes per string system, and I definitely
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  recommend you learn it. You can find the three notes per string major scale
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  tabs on my website as well as on the Patreon page. And what three
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  notes per string does is it takes each degree of the major scale, because
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  there are seven degrees of the major scale, and builds a three note string
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  pattern at each degree of the scale. So there are seven total shapes.
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  And if you work on those seven three notes per string major scale shapes,
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  let's say just one a day for a week, then you'll have them down
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  probably after that week or after a month, if you're doing the same thing
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  every week. They're really easy to get down and they'll really open up the
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  fretboard and help you understand how you can visualize the major scale on the fretboard,
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  all right, And the third coolest way to play the major scale on
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  guitar is with a one octave shape, so by playing in octaves. Well,
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  if you don't know, an octave is when you play the same note
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  at the next highest pitch, and so an octave shape will be where you
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  play your major scale on two strings using three notes on the first string and
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  four notes on the second string, which adds up to all seven degrees of
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  your major scale. Then just move up to the next octave. So if
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  you were to do this with the root note G, you'd start at the
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  third fret e, then go to the fifth fret D and then to the
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  eighth fret beat and you'd be moving this shape around in octaves and you'd use
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  the exact same finger structure at each octave. Piece of cake, right,
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  all right, and anyways, those are your three cool ways to play the
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  major scale on guitar. And thanks so much for listening to the show,
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  and I hope to catch you in the next episode, and don't forget to
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  subscribe. Have a good dank