How to Play G Major Guitar Scales

Video Transcript

"RYAN LARSON: And now we're going to go over our G major scale, a nice simple scale, we have G. So we got our third fret, fifth, seventh, 3, 5, 7, again and then we have 6, 7 at the top. And we're going to go through and analyze this tune, we have G, A, B, C, D, E, F sharp, G. You want to make sure you write that down at home as well. So every time we have a C chord, we can go G, A, B, C, alright, C chords are here, here's the C sharp chord. Say you have an A chord, G, A, there's you're A chord. Likewise, you have A flat and A sharp here too. So now when we encounter chords, we can analyze them as they compare to G and we'll show you how to do that in just a minute. But first, I want to take a look at this scale as it is written in tab. So we have our G major scale and here are our frets again, 3, 5, 7, 3, 5, 7, 4, 5 and I wrote the actual scale out, it's G, A, B, C, D, E, F sharp, G. So you want to make sure you have this information notated and written down at home so when we go through and analyze the tune, whenever I say, "Oh okay, this is this the sixth chord." You can go, "One, 2 3 4 5 6, okay, it's on the seventh fret right here on the second string." So this way, we can go through and analyze the tune very quickly and then find where the base notes are very quickly as well and then once we have all these roots down, we just supply the appropriate chords. So if it's a 6 and it's a major chord, we just supply major voicing or say it's a 2 and it's a minor chord, we'll apply our minor voicing. So by going through and applying these different chords we've already learned and just shifting around to the different roots, we can play through any tune like a breeze."