Major Scales & Keys

  These two pages attempt to explain in an elementary way the concepts of Major Scales and Keys.  If these do not make sense to you, then read over them again, and also check out the other posts in this section on Guitar Theory.

 This page gives you several major scales to play and practice.  The first two scales at the Top are specific scales in the Keys of C and G.  The bottom two scales are Movable Scales, which means that they have a Starting Point and an Ending Point, but these notes can be moved ANYWHERE on the guitar fretboard.  

The notes enclosed in a box are the ROOT notes.  Place your finger on any of these Root Notes.   Figure out what note on which your finger is placed.  That will be the name of the scale.  It is important to use all four fingers on your hand.  Position your hand where you can comfortably and easily play all of the notes in the scale.  If you need help with either finding the Keys or the proper fingerings, just let me know and we can work it out together.