6: The Coolest Way to Play The Major Scale on Guitar

Here are the 3 coolest ways to play the major scale on the guitar!

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Episode Transcript

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Welcome to the guitar Jet Podcast,where you'll skyrocket your knowledge of theory,
techniques and fundamentals for guitar. Hello, and welcome back to the guitar Jet
Podcast. I'm your host Miles andtoday we're going to be talking about the
coolest way to play the major scalingguitar. This is gonna be a quick
lesson and it's accompanied by a freepost on my Patreon page. Just go

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to patreon dot com slash guitar Jetand like I say, if to join
and become a free member to getaccess to the free pdf. Tap And
on top of that, the YouTubevideo this Thursday on the guitar Jet YouTube
channel is going to cover the samething, so you'll be able to learn
more there, and please remember tosubscribe to the podcast and leave us a

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review. And let's dive right intoit. So the first way that the
first cool way to play the majorscaling guitar is with two dots per string.
So traditionally a lot of major scaleshapes are caged and they'll be like
they'll vary between two notes and threenotes on each string so that you can
stay in a single position. Now, the cool thing about playing two notes

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per string major scales is the factthat you move horizontally and so it covers
a wide portion of the front board, and so that's what makes it cool.
It looks cool, and it's easyto execute, and it sounds awesome,
all right. The second coolest wayto play the major scale on guitar

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is three notes per string. Sothree notes per string major scales are used
by a lot of incredible guitar players, including Paul Gilbert and Rick Graham.
Lots of incredible players use the threenotes per string system, and I definitely
recommend you learn it. You canfind the three notes per string major scale
tabs on my website as well ason the Patreon page. And what three

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notes per string does is it takeseach degree of the major scale, because
there are seven degrees of the majorscale, and builds a three note string
pattern at each degree of the scale. So there are seven total shapes.
And if you work on those seventhree notes per string major scale shapes,
let's say just one a day fora week, then you'll have them down

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probably after that week or after amonth, if you're doing the same thing
every week. They're really easy toget down and they'll really open up the
fretboard and help you understand how youcan visualize the major scale on the fretboard,
all right, And the third coolestway to play the major scale on
guitar is with a one octave shape, so by playing in octaves. Well,

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if you don't know, an octaveis when you play the same note
at the next highest pitch, andso an octave shape will be where you
play your major scale on two stringsusing three notes on the first string and
four notes on the second string,which adds up to all seven degrees of
your major scale. Then just moveup to the next octave. So if
you were to do this with theroot note G, you'd start at the

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third fret e, then go tothe fifth fret D and then to the
eighth fret beat and you'd be movingthis shape around in octaves and you'd use
the exact same finger structure at eachoctave. Piece of cake, right,
all right, and anyways, thoseare your three cool ways to play the
major scale on guitar. And thanksso much for listening to the show,

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and I hope to catch you inthe next episode, and don't forget to
subscribe. Have a good dank