The first major scale you should learn on guitar is not the standard box shape major scale or the three note per string major scale. Instead, I propose that you first learn single string major scales & how to play them on all your strings. Hey guys, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com here with another beginner guitar lesson for you. Today we're going to actually apply the major scale to the guitar by playing it on single strings. This way you're really going to get to see & understand the structure of the major scale & get the pattern for it under your fingers & in your ears. Just like with every other guitar tutorial I do, you can play this on both acoustic guitar & electric guitar.

"What scale should I learn first on guitar?" is a common question. I think the single string major scale on guitar is one of the easiest guitar scales for beginners to get down easily. So I hope that this major scale guitar lesson & my other guitar tips and tricks will make beginner guitar scales easy fo...

What are scales on guitar? This is one question that a lot of people have is where do scales come from? Or what are musical scales? Hey guys, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com here with another guitar lesson for beginners on what are scales in music. When you break it down, scales really are really just simple patterns & in today's guitar tutorial I'm going to show you how that pattern works for the major scale. Now, the major scale is the basis for all of western music & home base for everything in music theory so getting this down first & understanding it will really help you out & make learning guitar easier.

Whether you're playing acoustic guitar or electric guitar, these scales are all the same on every guitar in standard tuning. But when learning how to play scales on guitar, most people just look at the scale as a collection or block of notes & don't get behind why they work or where it comes from. But understanding that makes learning how to play guitar better.

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Hey guys! Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com here with another beginner guitar lesson for you! Today we're going over how to easily memorize notes on the guitar fretboard. I'm going to show you 3 simple strategies to make guitar notes for beginners nice & simple. If you spend only 5-10 minutes per day doing these things, you'll have all the guitar notes on the fretboard down in no time. Learning all the notes on the fretboard on guitar is one thing that will really open up a lot of creative possibilities for you as you start to apply some basic music theory knowledge along with it.

Chapters: 0:00 - Intro

2:09 - Strategy #1

4:06 - Strategy #2

5:57 - Strategy #3

8:48 - Review & Wrap Up

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