Monday, October 25, 2010

Learn The Major Scales With The Help Of A Few Useful Lead Guitar Lessons

By Eric J. Griffiths

With the help of the right lead guitar lessons, people that love to play the lead guitar can move from being novices to being more accomplished players. The first thing that they will need to learn is how to play the pentatonic scale which consists of 5 separate notes. This scale is very easy to learn as well as to remember and every guitarist knows how to use it. It is also important to master the major scale which has everything that the pentatonic scale has plus two different notes as well.

If you wish to master the major scale you will need to begin by learning the C major scale that is actually nothing but all the tones on the white keys of your keyboard/piano. Before actually using the major scale you must have a good idea about what an octave really is. An octave is a note that has twice the frequency of another note. Each note however has one unique name and the octave in fact is half the frequency of the note that precedes it.

The fretboard on your guitar has divisions of various octaves that in turn must be divided into different steps. When you learn Western music you will be taught scales that consist of semitones (each has 12 different steps.) a single fret equals a single semitone but two frets will be equal to a single whole tone. Most guitarists tend to play the major scales the most.

If you wish to play a major scale, you must learn to start playing it from an E string (open) and up to the G note on the third fret of the 1st string and then you have to repeat this in reverse. Such lead guitar lessons will ensure that you get accustomed to moving your fingers back and forward and you will also learn to coordinate both hands more effectively.

These are the essential steps that a lead guitarist must take in order to learn how to play this particular instrument. There are of course many other things that will also have to be learned but it helps if you begin by locating all different octaves. This you can do by looking for patterns.

These steps form the basics of learning how to play your lead guitar the proper way. Of course, there is a lot more that you will need to learn.

It also helps if you are able to learn about all of the notes that are same or which are an octave. Next, learn to distinguish whether the octave is up or down and then work out a pattern and learn as many of them as you can.

Finally, it is necessary to consider learning lead guitar lessons that help you in working with these patterns. One of the simplest such lessons is learning about using a rule that says that you need to use a single fret for each finger.

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