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Exploiting Shapes: The Major Scale

Instructor: Rick Graham
Topic: Scales
Style: Any Style
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  • Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style

    Excerpt: Hey Dudes and Dudettes! Welcome to another installment of my 'exploiting shapes' series. The major scale will be the focus of this tutorial. Following the same direction as all of the previous lessons in this series, we will be taking the initial shape, in this instance the first six notes of each position, and we will be shifting them over 3 octaves. I tr...

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  • Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style

    Excerpt: Here we have the first six notes of a Gmajor scale taken from the second position on the 6th and 5th strings: A, B, C, D, E, F# which are then repeated on the 4th and 3rd and 2nd and 1st strings.

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  • Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style

    Excerpt: Here we have the first six notes of a Gmajor scale taken from the third position on the 6th and 5th strings: B, C, D, E, F#, G which are then repeated on the 4th and 3rd and 2nd and 1st strings.

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  • Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style

    Excerpt: Here we have the first six notes of a Gmajor scale taken from the fourth position on the 6th and 5th strings: C, D, E, F#, G, A which are then repeated on the 4th and 3rd and 2nd and 1st strings.

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  • Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style

    Excerpt: Here we have the first six notes of a Gmajor scale taken from the fifth position on the 6th and 5th strings: D, E, F#, G, A, B which are then repeated on the 4th and 3rd and 2nd and 1st strings.

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  • Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style

    Excerpt: Here we have the first six notes of a Gmajor scale taken from the sixth position on the 6th and 5th strings: E, F#, G, A, B, C which are then repeated on the 4th and 3rd and 2nd and 1st strings.

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  • Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style

    Excerpt: Here we have the first six notes of a Gmajor scale taken from the seventh position on the 6th and 5th strings: F#, G, A, B, C, D which are then repeated on the 4th and 3rd and 2nd and 1st strings.

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