GUITAR SCALES Made Easy

all right today we're gonna do the impossible we're gonna make music theory easy thank you you know people hear music theory and they think of horrible things like textbooks and italian but it's actually not that bad if you think of music theory as cooking it's like knowing to add sugar to your tea and salt to your pasta it's just understanding the relationship of nose to each other to make a great dish so here's a wild concept for you music is comprised of notes there are 12 of them total the seven letters are called natural notes and you shouldn't run with the others they're sharp but also they're flat what a world we live in in music sharp means one note higher and flat means one note lower every note has a sharp other than b and e which means that only two notes don't have flats can you figure out which ones it's c and f also when you have all 12 notes together in alphabetical order that's called the chromatic scale if you want to hear it on your guitar just play 12 notes in a row on one string and after 12 when you go to the next note it restarts but one octave higher music is a circle and time is an illusion so now that you know all 12 notes you're ready to make music but if you just try to play them in random order you might notice it sounds very bad and that's what musicians and people on a diet have in common they use scales and here's where things get crazy a scale isn't actually a set of notes it's a set pattern now all you do is you plop it down on the chromatic scale and whatever notes are left underneath are a major scale but to go into a little more detail notice the roman numerals up top whichever note is under the roman numeral one gives the scale its name it's also called the root note trees grow from roots and so do scales so right now that's a c major scale but do some sliding it's a d major scale e major scale all of the major scales have sharps or flats in them except for one the c major scale so usually it's slightly easier to approach new concepts on and as i said at the start of the video today we're making music theory easy so it's important picture each square as a fret on your guitar you could use the measurements tone tone semitone tone tone tone semitone so what is a tone it's a distance of two notes and a semitone is a distance of one note now with just one string you're able to play melodies that's just one note at a time but what multiple strings let you do is harmonize that's multiple notes at the same time that together sound pretty good so the simplest chord you can make is called a major triad using the roman numerals on top you can make a major triad by using one three and five so a c major triad is c e g a d major triad is d f sharp a and if you've already played some guitar you probably know these as the c chord and d chord and now if you're playing with your friends they say hey can you play c chord you could say you mean a triad it'll be super cool and now i'm going to show you the coolest trick of all so if you want to make a minor triad you can take any major triad and just make the middle note or the third flat it's sad now you know getting a flat tie or saddened so is getting a flat third but here's what's really interesting now if you remove the middle note or the third you get a power chord and on that note that music i'm gonna call it there me [Music]

Channel: Redlight Blue

Views: 1,070,837

Keywords: essential music theory, guitar theory, beginner guitar lesson

Id: AY-vkn_iBI8

Length: 3min 13sec (193 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 17 2022