Guitar Scales | C Major Scale, Tone and Semi Tone
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This post will explain what is Guitar Scale, Tone and Semi tone in Guitar
Scales, their relevance and how to build Scale using Tones and Semi Tone with an example of C major scale on Guitar.
How exactly a Major scale is build on Guitar we will discuss
in terms of Tones or whole step and Semi tones or half step, these are the
building blocks of Guitar Scales.
What is Scale in Guitar?
Scale is basically a combination of tones and semi tones of
a same family. A normal scale has 7 notes in its family (Assume there are 7
family members of a Scale). Also, Outer note is not allowed in the family.
I believe you have already gone through my previous post on
‘Guitar Scales | Chromatic Scale and its Variation’ (Click Here for Lesson)
If not, then please check as I have
explained basics of Scales with complete Chromatic Scales with all variations in
that post which gives you complete understanding of what we are going to cover
in this post.
Guitar Semi Tone or Half Step:
Well, Semi tone is the next step or the previous step of any
Note, Guitar Semi Tones are also known as Half Step.
Let’s take an example of
C note,
We already knows that after C note C# comes and then D and
then D# note.
So basically, from C note to C# note and vice versa it’s a Semi
tone, from C# note to D note (from D note to D# note) and vice versa it’s again
a Semi tone or Half step.
Guitar Tone or Whole Step:
Tone is basically a combination of two half steps or semi
tones and it is also termed as Whole
Step.
From C Note to D Note it’s a Whole Step or Tone as it is a
combination of two semi tones (C note to C# note and C# note to D note) and
Same for C# to D#.
Let’s understand Tone and Semi tone concept on E string on Guitar FretBoard,
Semi Tones or Half Steps:
E Note to F Note, F Note to F# Note, F# Note to G Note, G Note
to G# Note, G# Note to A Note, A Note to A# Note, A# Note to B Note and so on.
Tones or Whole Steps:
E Note to F# Note, F# Note to G# Note, G# Note to A# Note,
A# Note to C Note, F Note to G Note, G Note to A Note, A Note to B Note, B Note
to C# Note and so on.
C Major Scale in Guitar :
C Major Scale is known as the Perfect scale which has no
sharp and flat notes in its family. Also, each Chord has a scale and each note
in a family of any chord matches the scale of that chord.
Suppose I am playing C Chord and I am asking you to play a
melody which we can play together. In that case you also need to prepare a
melody with notes which belongs to 7 member of family of C.
This is because we are exploring melody to match C chord and
melody notes should belong to same family to match.
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| Fig. Representation of C Major Scale |
There are 7 member included in C Scale family, C, D, E, F,
G, A & B. Last C note is a repeated note.
Any other note like D# or A# or any other note is not
allowed in C scale.
What is a Melody?
A Tune which is played in the beginning or between the songs
is known as Melody.
Obviously, playing C major scale in a straight line is not
the only option; there are other relevant options available in which we need to
practice C Major Scale.
Idea to include topic ‘Major Scale in Guitar’ in this post
is to give you a background what is a Scale and how we are building any Scale
with the help of Tones and Semi Tones.
I hope you will start understanding the Scales basic and
building blocks in Guitar now, I’ll broadly explain Guitar Scales in upcoming
post.
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