Scale of a Fake Book Melody in G Major

Video Transcript

"Now we're going to give you a visual look at the G major scale, and we'll start right here on G. It's right in the middle of the group of three here, you see the group of three. G. And we go up. G, A, B, C, D, E, F sharp, G. And for our purposes we number one through seven. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Now in a lot of my theories you hear me talking about "oh it starts on the one or the two chord," and that's just taking this one scale and subdividing it. The one chord starts here, two chord starts here, three chord starts here, and etcetera, etcetera. So it's all very basic, very simple stuff. And then when you have a melody, like say three, three, three, three, three, three, three, five, one, two, three, four, five, six, five, four, five, four, three, five, three, two, one. You can play it within your scale, and then when we actually read it, all the lines and the spaces on actual sheet music are just reading out of the scale, and then when you have a note that's out of the scale, say this note, this would be written as either C sharp or D flat. So we use sharps and flats to notate patterns that go out of the scale. And likewise, if you read a pattern in the scale you can play it in a different scale by making one somewhere else. So B flat, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. That's your B flat major scale. I can play that song again. Three, three, three, three, three, three, three, five, one, two, three, four, five, six, five, three, five, three, two, three, two, or that was four, three, four, three. One... So you get the basic idea. And again, just remember this G major scale pattern, one sharp. We number it one through seven, and we'll take another look at this major scale, on paper, in just a minute."