Closed C Major Scale for Classical Guitar

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is John Armstrong with expertvillage.com and today we would be starting intermediate classical guitar. Okay now I like to take the C major scale a step further we are going to still play a one octave C major scale but, what we are going to do we are going to keep it a closed position scale. This is going to be a 2nd position now what the means is that any 2s would be played with your 1st finger and any 2nd frets would be played with your 1st finger hint the name in 2nd position. As in results any 3rd frets would be played with your 2nd finger, 4th frets 3rd finger and 5th frets 5th finger. Second position means that any twos could be played with your 1st finger, 3s and 4s and 5s. So we are going to keep the C major scale closed once again alternating back and forth between the E and the I finger using rest strokes very important to do that. This is also a great opportunity to practice the application in your vibrato technique. Once you feel comfortable with the scale you continue to practice the scale throwing in the vibrato technique. As with all scales I would eventually practice using quarter notes, 8th notes, triplets, and 16th notes using a metronome as a tool for this would be a excellent idea. Here we go starting here with my C note, D,E,F,G,A,B,C, descending."