Building Scales on Guitars

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MICHAEL PLUNKETT: Hi. This is Michael Plunkett on behalf of Expert Village. In this segment today, we're going to take a look at some basic theory as we might apply it to the guitar. Guitarists can benefit from theory in a few different ways. It allows us to do things like know what songs somebody's playing in, for instance, if you hear somebody playing a song. It also allows us to be able to transpose and think of chords and the way we use notes on the guitar in different ways. So, we're going to review some of the basic aspects of theory. We're going to review some terminology for theory. We're also going to run over how we go about building a scale, what notes comprise that scale, and we're going to do that with both the major and the minor scale. We're then going to look at how we assign numbers to that scale, we call them scale degrees, and how we can use those numbers to build different types of chords that we use in any given scale or key. We're going to look at a few different types of chords, major, minor, diminished, augmented and seventh, and we're going to see how all that applies to playing the guitar.

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