Chords for How to Read Guitar Scale Diagrams

_ _ [B] _ Welcome to Guitar Lessons 2K.
This video is going to teach you how to read scale
diagrams.
Scale diagrams are graphic charts that tell you where to put your
fingers on the fretboard in order to make a specific scale.
A blank scale
diagram looks like this.
It represents a guitar neck as if you are looking at it
like this.
The six vertical lines represent the six guitar strings.
The six
vertical lines from left to right are the strings E, A, D, [Am] G, B, E.
The horizontal
lines represent the frets on the guitar.
The numbers in the oval shapes are
showing you where to place your fingers and which [E] finger to use.
The black oval
shapes are the tone centers of the scale.
A tone center is the home base of a
scale where melodies often return as they finish.
It is the main note in the
scale.
If you are in the key of E, it would be the E note.
If you are in the
key of A, it would be the A note.
The white oval shapes are the other notes in
the scale.
The number to the left of the diagram indicates what fret you should
be on.
_ _ Unlike chord diagrams where you press all the notes down at once in
strum, in scale diagrams notes are played consecutively one after another
one note at a time.
_ _ _ In this example we will learn the A minor pentatonic scale
the scale diagram is telling you to press your first finger [G] on the low E
string in the fifth fret [A] and pick, _ _ [Am] then press your fourth finger on the low E
string in the eighth fret and pick, [C] _ then press your [Cm] first finger on the A string
in the fifth fret and [D] pick, _ then press your third finger on the A string in a
seventh fret and pick, [E] _ then press your first finger on the D string in the
5th [G] fret.
_ Now your 3rd finger on the D string in the [A] 7th fret. _ _
1st finger G string [Am] 5th fret. _ _
3rd finger G string 7th [D] fret.
_ 1st finger B [Bb] string [Em] 5th fret.
_ _ 4th finger B string 8th fret.
_ _ [G] 1st finger E string 5th [Am] fret.
_ 4th finger E string 8th fret.
_ _ [Ab] Now we will descend back
[C] down the scale.
4th finger on the high E string in the 8th fret.
_ _ [F] 1st finger on the high E
string in the [A] 5th fret.
_ _ 4th finger B string 8th [G] fret.
_ _ _ _ 1st finger B string [E] 5th fret.
_ _ 3rd
finger G string 7th fret.
[D] _ _ 1st finger G string [C] 5th fret.
_ _ 3rd finger D string [Ab] [A] 7th fret.
_ _ 1st
1st finger D string [G] 5th fret
_ _ 3rd finger A string [E] 7th fret
_ _ 1st finger A string 5th [D] fret
_ _ 4th [E] finger on the low E string in the [C] 8th fret
_ 1st [Cm] finger on the low E string in the [A] 5th fret _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ [D] _ [E] _ _ [Am] _ _
_ [Em] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ [Am] _ _ [Em] _ _
_ [C] _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ [N] Some scales are played in the open position
as is the case of this E minor pentatonic scale.
The zeros in the oval shapes are open strings.
_ _ _ Sometimes highlighted notes will be added to a scale
to make a new scale or show extra passing notes.
_ In this example, the highlighted notes are blues notes
added to the E minor pentatonic scale
to make the E [Em] minor blues scale.
Now let's take a look at the E minor blues scale in the open position.
Pick the open low E string.
[E] _ _ _ Then press your 3rd finger on the low E string in the 3rd fret and pick.
[G] _ _ _
Now the open A string.
[A] Open, _ 1st finger on the A string in the 1st [Bb] fret, _ _
2nd finger on the A string in the 2nd [B] fret. _ _
Open D string, [D] _ _ _ 2nd finger on the D string in the 2nd [E] fret.
_ _ Open G string, [G] _ _ _ 2nd finger on the G string in the 2nd [A] fret,
_ _ 3rd finger on the G string, [Bb] 3rd fret.
_ _ Open B [B] string, _ _ 3rd finger B string, 3rd [D] fret. _
Open high E [Em] string, _ third finger,
high E string, third fret.
_ _ _ Now, we will descend
back down the scale.
Third finger, high E string,
third fret, _ _ open E string, _ _ third finger, B string,
third fret, [D] _ _
open B string,
[B] _ _ third finger, G string, third [Bb] fret, _ _ _ second finger, G [A] string,
second fret, _ open G string,
[G] _ _
2nd finger D string 2nd [E] fret _
open D [D] string
_ _ _ 2nd finger A string 2nd fret
[B] _ _ _ 1st finger A string 1st [Bb] fret
_ open A string
[A] _ _ 3rd finger low E string 3rd [G] fret
_ open E [E] string
You _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ [A] _
[Bb] _ [B] _ [D] _ [E] _ [G] _ [A] _ [Bb] _ [Bm] _
_ [Em] _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ [Bb] _ [A] _
[G] _ [E] _ [D] _ [B] _ [Bb] _ [A] _ [G] _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ can download over 300 scale diagrams
including the 7 modes and any key
showing all the fingerings for the entire fretboard
at www _ .GuitarLessons2k.com _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _