Lesson 5

The G Major Scale

Now we're going to start introducing a little bit of music theory. We're going to start by introducing the G Major Scale. Learning scales will help you understand how songs are constructed, and it will help you find notes on the fretboard. The G Major scale is the easiest one to work with on the guitar.

Here's the G Major scale played on the G,B and E strings...

Here are the notes in two octaves of the G Major scale...

Here is Jack playing both octaves...

This picture shows the positions of each of the notes.

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