Chords for Open E Lap Steel Using A Simple Scale

_ _ Okay, today I'm going to try to cover _ _ the importance of learning the major scale.
We're going to use the lap steel in open E tuning. _
I _ want to try to point out the importance of being able to play the major scale and
play it through the chord progressions of a simple melody, _ but keep everything down
here in the pocket, a close pocket of notes that you can play through a standard three
chord song for instance.
_ The scale that I'm going to work with is going to start with these first four strings and
it's going to be a simple _ G major scale starting on the third fret.
We're going to hit the first note, it's going to be string number four on the third [G] fret _
and then string number four on the fifth [Am] fret, _ _ [B] string number three on the third fret,
_ _ string number three on the [C] fourth fret, _ _ [A#] string number two on [D] the third fret, _ string number
[E] two on the fifth fret, string [D#] number one on the second [F#] fret, _ [F] and string number one on
the [F#] third fret.
So [Em] what you have is your major scale.
_ _ [D] _ _ _ [F#] _
_ _ [G] _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _
_ _ And [N] what I want to show you is the importance of learning that simple scale, getting those
tones fixed into your head so that you can rearrange the scale into a musical _ piece of melody.
_ Or you can just play _ short pieces of the scale over the _ rhythm guitar and the bass guitar
and everything while it's going through, like say a three chord progression.
_ _ So I'm going to make an example of a, it's no song in particular, but say we was playing
with the band and they was playing something in the G [G] chord. _
[G] _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [N] _
And say the band [G] went from G to _ [C] C, _ [F#] instead of, _ _ [N] there's nothing wrong with moving up to
your four chord by sliding [C] clear down your neck, but if you can get all these notes [F#] in
a pocket, for instance, [G] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [G#] so there would be your first [G] chord, _ _ [C] then your four chord, then
your [F#] three chord, then your four chord. _ _ _
[C] You see that's just some [B] of the notes of that scale.
_ [D] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
I'm playing that over a C, [G] _ _
I'm playing those over a G, _ _ _ [G#] _ _
[C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [F#] _ _
[B] there is another note [F#] of the scale, _
[G#] which would lend itself to playing over the _ five chord or the D chord.
[G] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ [F#] _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ See those _
_ _ [D] _ three notes of the scale fit over [F#] the five chord.
[N] So say the band is playing and they're moving from [D] the one chord [G] [C] to the four chord, back
to the one chord, [D] up to the five chord, [N] _ and I'm staying right here in a pocket.
And I'm not moving my bar all over [G] the neck, I'm just, _ [Bm] _
_ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ [F#] _ _
[D] _ you [C#] see.
_ So if you [B] can start [D] _ _ _ [F#] _ _
[F#] your practice [C] every day by [G]
playing through a major [B] scale, _ _ _ [F#] _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ and get
those tones [Bm] fixed in your head, pretty soon you'll be playing all kinds of melodies. _ _
_ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ [A] _ _ You can play through all the chords just by using those simple scale notes.
_ [G#] So thank you very much.
_ _ [N] _