How to Play a Chromatic Scale on Guitar

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Joe Wiles with the Rock and Roll Conservatory on behalf of Expert Village. I'm going to apply the chromatic scale we just learned to the guitar. The name of your lowest string if you remember from the last segment is your E string, okay? So, we're going to start at that point in the chromatic scale. E, now if you recall, E doesn't have a sharp. So, we'll go straight to F and then F sharp, G, G sharp, A, A sharp, B, C, because B doesn't have a sharp, then C sharp, then D, D sharp, and on the twelfth fret you'll find E again. Just like your open string. That's called an octave, okay? From E to E. Now for your other strings you'd start with, well with your A string you'd start with A in the chromatic scale. A, A sharp, B, C, C sharp, D, and so on. So, each one of your strings starts at a different place in the chromatic scale. And that's kind of how you would map out your guitar. And that's the chromatic scale as it applies to the guitar. In our next segment we're going to start learning a few chords. There's only five chords with the CAGED Method. As you might case, they are C A G E and D, and I'll see you there and we'll start explaining that."