Know How To Play The Guitar Scale Tabs

What’s up guitar fans, Darrin Goodman here from GuitarControl.com with a little guitar lesson for you today on scales.

This is actually the very first scale pattern that I ever learned and I still use it to this day. I find this pattern to be very useful for learning melodies by ear. It is just a major scale and since learning this one I have also learned many other patterns, but I prefer this pattern for figuring out melodies by ear and for playing Arpeggios.

So here are the guitar scale tabs and it is written in the key of “A Major”, but is easily played in any key by simply moving it up or down the fret board.

Since the first note, the “Root Note”, is on the 5^th fret of the 6^th string, which is an “A”, we are in the key of “A Major”. By simply moving the shape down one whole step so that the first note is on the 3^rd fret, “G”, you would now be in the key of “G Major”.

The fingering for the scale is important to be efficient. For the 6^th string use your 2^nd and 4^th fingers, for the 5^th string use your first, 2^nd and 4^th fingers, for the 4^th and 3^rd strings use your first, 3^rd and 4^th fingers, for the 2^nd string use your 2^nd and 4^th fingers and finally for the first string use your first, 2^nd and 4^th fingers.

Be sure to practice the scale in different keys and positions on the fretboard and to use “alternate picking” for efficiency, so you can get the most use out of it.

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Enjoy!
Darrin