1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 = octave
This Chord is more common to us Rock folks.
Hello everyone this is my first Guitar Column ever. I told Rowan from www.sarocks.com and sarocks.blogspot.com it would be cool to write a guitar column. I am going to feature my best attempts on Guitar lessons and interviews with some of San Antonio’s local and International greats. I am currently working on an Interview with one my favorite guitar players Ron Jarzombek, it should come out in the next couple of weeks.
Ok! Let’s visit my first lesson for everyone in San Antonio Cyberspace. What I want to touch on for my first lesson is the Major Scale. Since the Major Scale is one of the most commonly used scales in popular music, I figured let's break this sucker down and build it back up.
If anyone has taken any type of lessons or cracked open a few lesson books (yes the boring ones) you notice how common guitar chords or chords in general are related to C major and A minor and so on.
Visiting the C Major scale you have the notes of C D E F G A B C. This will work on a C Major or a natural C noted chord. What about the G Major Chord? I added some repetitions on Fig. 1 A below in tab and music form.
The G Major Scale - G A B C D E F# (( or Gb ))G
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 = octave
This Chord is more common to us Rock folks.
I will have video clips up soon for visual aids on my alias named website AgentX (yes that’s my own website) http://agentx.5u.com/Agent_X_Videos.html. You can also see some old stuff of me being silly on the guitar, but most importantly you'll be able to see how the lessons are to be played.
Let’s go down the neck starting on the 6th string 3rd fret and so on until we reach the Octave
Figure 1 A
Below we start with the basics of whole notes and half notes and move up on speed.
G A B C D E F# G-octave
3 5 2 3 5 2 4 5 = frets meaning 3 fret G note 6th string & 5th fret A note on 6th string
Other helpful knowledge to know
Keep practicing and I will try to answer any questions you have or at least direct you to good source of information. I don’t claim to be the best but I will give it my best (( hey it’s a free guitar lesson )). Until next lesson take care.