How to Play Major Scales for Electric Guitar Solos

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Hi! My name is John Armstrong with expertvillage.com, I’m a professional guitar instructor and today I’ll be going over some of the basic rudiments of playing the lead guitar or soloing. Okay in order to be able to solo you first need to understand the major scale, major scale any scale is made up of series of whole and half steps, a whole step consisting of two frets, a half step one fret. The major scale consist of a step pattern which goes whole step, whole step, half step, whole, whole, whole, half, so whole, whole, whole, half, whole, whole, whole, half, for example if I was to play that in G…or play it across the strings which I like a little better… Now it’s important to be able to play a major scale on couple of different strings…and to be able to move it anywhere on the neck of the guitar, for example if I was going to do that pattern from G to A…or A to B…or move it over to the fifth string at the seventh fret and play it at E…I can also extend the major scale up two full octaves…and do the same thing here at the fifth fret…which would be an A-major scale.

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