Guitar Scale Course Content

Lesson 1: Major Scale

• Constructing the Major Scale on the Fingerboard
• Position Playing on the Guitar
• Playing the C Major Scale in Second Position
• Playing the C Major Scale in Seventh Position
• G Major Scale in Second Position
• G Major Scale in the Seventh Position

Lesson 2: Major Pentatonic Scales, F Major Scale, and Fingering Type Review

• Major Pentatonic Scales
• F Major Scale and Fingering Type 1A
• F Major Scale in Seventh Position

Lesson 3: The D and A Major Scales

• D Major Scale in Second Position
• D Major in Seventh Position
• A Major Scale
• A Major Scale in the Ninth Position

Lesson 4: Minor Pentatonic Scales and Minor Blues Scales

• A Minor Pentatonic Scale Fingering 1
• C Minor Pentatonic Scale Fingering 2
• Improvising with the Minor Pentatonic Scale
• The Blues Scale

Lesson 5: Dorian and Mixolydian Scales

• Constructing Dorian Scales
• Dorian Fingerings from the Parallel Minor Pentatonic
• Dorian Fingerings from Parallel Major Scales
• Constructing the Mixolydian Scale
• Mixolydian Fingerings from Parallel Major Scales

Lesson 6: Scale Exercises

• Five Major Scales in One Position
• One Scale in Five Positions on the Guitar
• Connecting Scale Forms: Playing Three-Octave Scales Using Mirror Fingering

Lesson 7: Major Scales Played Intervalically

• Major Scale in Thirds
• Five Fingerings for Major Scales in Thirds
• Major Scale in Fourths
• Two Fingerings for Major Scale in Fourths
• Larger Intervals

Lesson 8: Modes of the Major Scale

• Definition of a Mode
• Names of the Modes of the Major Scale
• Playing One Octave Modes of the Major Scale—Key of C
• Diatonic Chords of the Major Scale and the Corresponding Mode
• D Major Scale and Its Modes
• G Major Scale and Its Modes
• C as Every Mode in the Major Scale
• G as Every Mode in the Major Scale

Lesson 9: Harmonic Minor Scale

• Constructing the Harmonic Minor Scale on the Fingerboard
• Playing the A and D Harmonic Minor Scale in Second Position—Fingerings Based on Parallel and Relative Major Scales
• Playing One Octave Modes of the A and D Harmonic Minor Scales
• A and D as Root of Every Mode of Harmonic Minor Scale

Lesson 10: Melodic Minor Scale

• Constructing the Melodic Minor Scale on the Fingerboard
• Playing the A and D Melodic Minor Scale in Second Position
• Playing One Octave Modes of the A and D Melodic Minor Scales
• A and D as Root of Every Mode of Melodic Minor Scale

Lesson 11: Symmetric Scales

• Constructing the Whole Tone Scale on the Fingerboard
• Two Whole Tone Fingerings
• Constructing the Diminished Scale on the Fingerboard
• Two Diminished Scale Fingerings

Lesson 12: Three Octave Scales

• Three Octave Whole Tone Scale Fingering
• Three Octave Diminished Scale Fingerings