How to Play A Minor Guitar Scales

Video Transcript

"Okay, now that we've learned the movable major scale, let's learn the movable minor scale. A minor scale would be, for example, in the open position if we started on open A. Let me play, A, D, C, G, E, F, G, A. Which is great, but once again, if we go to the next octave, E, C, D, E, F, G, A, we're jumping up to hit that A. That's not too difficult but let's learn another pattern of doing it. So instead of playing open A we can play the fifth fret of the low E string if you remember from relative tuning. I'll start with our first finger. Fifth fret, seventh fret, eighth fret, fifth fret, seventh fret, eighth fret, fifth and seventh. So so far our first finger is locked into the fifth fret. But now we'll move down to the fourth fret, just temporarily. You can use your first and second and fourth fingers to play the fourth, fifth, and seventh frets. Now you're going to keep that same pattern but you're going to move up to the fifth fret for B. First finger, second, and fourth playing fifth fret, sixth fret, and eighth fret. And then the fifth fret of the high E. So you notice when I went back down, I have the option of using my third finger here for the seventh on the G and then sliding my first finger down, not sliding but jumping it. However you feel comfortable, but on the way up you're going to have to move your first finger just for the G string."