Knowing the A Major Scale for Reading Fake Book

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So the first thing we're going to do is through the A major scale, and show you our A major chord. And again, we're going to use this scale for our next four chords, and they all come right out of the same scale. And we're going to use this scale throughout the entire piece. So as we go through this lesson plan you want to make sure you have this scale under your fingers. A major, three sharps. Again, you know you're playing a tune in A major when it has three sharps written on the bar lines. But if we look here, we start on A which is right here. Right in the group of three, up right there in between the top two of the group of three. We have A, B, C sharp, D, E, F sharp, G sharp, A. And that's your scale. A major. And we'll want to number the scale from one through seven starting on A. One, two, three, four, five, six seven. And how we're getting all our chords today, is we're playing what's called the black chord where you play one, three, five and seven, of the scale you're playing. So this is our A major black chord. And you hear how nice it is, I'm just noodling in my A major scale up above. And you can play seven and go into six too. Seven, seven, six. But as long as you have that one, three, five in there, it sounds gorgeous. So that's our first chord. Our A major black chord, and we're outlining one, three, five, and seven out of our major scale.

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