How to Play the A Harmonic Major Scale on Guitar

Series Summary

The guitar has been around for nearly 5,000 years; developed from even more ancient instruments akin to the sitar, it has been inspiring audiences since its first chord was strummed. It is the primary instrument involved with many genres of music including country, blues, flamenco, rock, and pop, and has been celebrated as one of the most expressive instruments in the world. Whether blending acoustic harmonies on a classical guitar or shredding solos on an electric guitar, the importance of the guitar to 20th century music cannot be ignored.

In this free video series, our expert Kivett Bednar will teach you how to play all kinds of scale on the guitar. He will teach you how to play symmetric diminished scales, symmetric dominant scales and whole tone scales. Kivett will show you how to play each of these forms of a scale in several different keys including: A flat, A major, B flat, b major, c major, d flat, e flat, f sharp, and g#. Mr. Bednar will even teach you how to play blues pentatonic scale is several ways!

Video Transcript

"To play A harmonic major starting on the bottom string and ascending two octaves, place your middle finger on the bottom string at the fifth fret. Your scale should sound like this. Now, much more slowly. Now ascending and descending."